Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

My inspiration today for writing this piece of blog is a tiny baby robot called Beebot that we have introduced in our early year classes. The more I play with it the more I end up loving the gadget. The more I explore the more I am amazed with its hidden potential to engage kids in innovative and creative learning experiences.  Why beebots? This programmable toy robot was awarded as the most impressive hardware for kindergarten and early primary school children on the World Education Technology market BETT 2006. It works on the principle of Logo (programming language designed by Seymour Pappert in 1967, has an easy to use user interface, a few simple to use keys, remembers 40 instructions, has a bee like structure).  Research says that children need to learn in a concrete learning environment, to create hands on experiences with their surroundings (Beaty, 1984), so our Beebot seems to be a good choice here since it lets children manipulate them through programming, help t

Let’s Create Tangled Together! Date: 30 th August 2015/Sunday/8:50PM No doubt storytelling can create the magic in our early year classrooms. I was actually able to clearly visualize this during one of the sessions with teachers about how to create interactive learning experiences. They were so motivated and engaged during the session, kept discussing ideas of how they could use the available education technology resources more effectively to engage learners in more meaningful and thought provoking learning experiences. We started off with exploring storytelling and ended up with numerous interactive activities that if used could energize your classrooms like anything. So as always I thought of sharing with all of you. I believe in Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligence (1991), that students possess different minds and that they learn, perform, remember and understand in different ways. He says that such differences challenge our educational system w