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Digital Relationships
Digital Relationships
"Perfect marriage of learning alongside the children, where the teacher is inspired, and the children are inspired."
"Co-constructing is really being in proximity with the child right where they are, what they're learning, not the million miles ahead, that you know we. Oh wouldn't this be fun, but just being right there with where they're learning and how they're learning. That's the trick. And it's a very, very difficult trick I think."
"we are not putting on movies - we are making them."
"we are not putting on movies - we are making them."
"Shifted the children from a passive place of watching endless videos of Octonauts, over and over again versus manipulating lights, and seeing what happens when projector sends light and then that's interrupted with things that are placed in front of it or it projects an image."
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
We ask as teachers, "How do we come to share perspectives, understand our own perspective, understand other people's or the more than human perspective? How do we compare our perspective to others?"
We Reflect on...
We Reflect on...
What do I see?
What do I notice?
What do I wonder?
Do you see how I see?
Do I see how you see?
How do we create spaces where children can work on digital?
Children as Protagonist of their own learning
Children as Protagonist of their own learning
The following are ideas when using technology with young children:
Give children the opportunity to play with light projected on surfaces
Have the projector/projections at children's eye level
Having the digital projector closer to the children
For children to be able to document themselves and their own work
DIGITAL Wonderings ... Teachers' Reflections
Throughout this process the participants shared ideas, thoughts, and questions of their reflections while using digital technology with young children. Below are examples of quotes sharing their experiences with using digital technology in their classrooms. Three common wonderings that came up were: nature, reflection, and risks.
Nature
Nature
"How might we use digital technology to connect with nature and vice versa?"
Turtles were live-streaming each other from two different schools.
"Teachers began to play with the digital and nature / natural materials and reuse materials."
Reflection
Reflection
"When we use digital technology - children can re-think / re-visit experiences."
"Slowing down - to really observe and decipher what their question is."
"Using mirrors to reflect technologies so that children can see each other and the screen for interactions."
Risks
Risks
"Beautiful mistakes and the learning that occurs."
"Created the conditions where they could take responsible risks and how could we support them a little bit more, nudge them."
"You have to be open to shifting, just as much as you're wanting the children to be open to shifting. It forces you to go to this uncomfortable place if that is an uncomfortable place for you."
Open Invitation
Open Invitation
"How to make an open invitation to embrace all these new digital aspects and not feel overwhelmed but be able to like translate them into a context for the children, a learning context for the children."
Provocations
Provocations
"We create conditions that create landscapes for children to bring out their whole selves, to share their thinking, to listen to one another, to grapple with, to create tension. We try to create tension so that there's something to grapple with."
EXAMPLES
The following are examples of participant questions or ideas using digital technology:
"Combining digital with big body movements."
"How to make sound visible?"
"How do you play with light?"
"Light and shadow - (light for inquiry)"
"We brought discard materials into the classroom to enrich their research."
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