Game-based learning has emerged as a promising area of innovation in making rigorous academic content and professional practices more engaging, relevant and effective for America's youth. Recently the National Academy of Sciences and the Federation of American Scientists have issued statements identifying the potential benefits of more robust experimentation and integration of digital games and simulations in K-12 education.
great model for a scope and sequence aligned with curriculum but too comprehensive as a starting point
D200 Technology Curriculum, Integrated with Common Core Standards K-5
Home NETS-S Student Friendly Category Names Videos of NETS*S in Action Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Lesson Plans Resources for Lesson Plans Rubrics
Dated but good reference to older sequence of tech skills - The goal of K to the 8th Power is to provide an easy-to-use platform for developing computer literacy and applied technology skills.
Digital apps designed to teach young children to read are an increasingly large share of the market, but parents and educators have little to no information about whether and how they work.
busy blog but tons of cool connections between tech and literacy
LAUNCHING SUCCESSFUL READERS:
THE ROLE OF ICT IN EARLY-GRADE LITERACY SUCCESS
K eywords: iPad, apps, teacher role, conversations
As many educators and parents have observed, today's children are exposed to advanced technology at an early age, with tablets, e-readers, and smartphones being some prevalent choices (Gutniket al. 2011; Rideout 2011).
Literacy is changing-not at its core necessarily, but certainly at its edges as it expands to include new kinds of "reading." Digital media is quickly replacing traditional media forms as those most accessible to most 21st century learners.
Literacy is the ability to make sense of something, often generalized as the ability to read and write. In many ways, reading is reading, media is media, but in the same way a play places unique comprehension demands on a reader compared to a poem or a letter, so do digital media compared to classic media forms. In the 21st century, new literacies are emerging and digital media forms allow communication to be more nuanced than ever before.
From the Joan Ganz Cooney Center - The mission of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center is to foster innovation in children’s learning through digital media. The Cooney Center is an independent research and innovation lab that catalyzes and supports research, development, and investment in digital media technologies to advance children’s
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Center publishes industry, policy, and research briefs examining key issues in the field of digital
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I recently read two articles that struck me in the way they examined the impact of technology on small children. In a New York Times article entitled, " The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind" Nick Bilton described watching his sister calm her four-year-old and seven-year-old children at a restaurant by providing each an iPad to use during dinner.
She is one many children displaying compulsive behaviour with the device Girls is so addicted to games that she experiences withdrawal symptoms Poll shows more than half of parents let their baby use tablet or smartphone 81 per cent of parents worry their children spend too long on gadgets Doctors note increase in addicted children 'inconsolable' without them By Rebecca Seales and Eleanor Harding PUBLISHED: 05:46 EST, 21 April 2013 | UPDATED: 12:22 EST, 27 April 2013 A girl aged four is having psychiatric treatment after becoming Britain's youngest known iPad addict.
