Description

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Helping Children Create, Collaborate, and Communicate--with Technology Children are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support children's learning. Learn how to

• Use technologies in ways that build on, not detract from, the learning children gain through play
• Introduce technologies using a gradual release of responsibility model
• Foster children's storytelling, reflection, early coding skills, and more
• Use technologies to enrich your partnerships with families and invite them into the classroom community
• Work with colleagues to develop a digital culture that supports the program's goals

With the guidance in this book, you'll be able to evaluate technologies and understand how to put them to their best uses in your program.

About the Author

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Victoria B. Fantozzi, PhD, is a professor of early childhood and childhood education at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where she teaches courses in emergent literacies, early childhood foundations, and research methods. Since 2015, she has partnered with schools to empower teachers to make intentional decisions about integrating technologies into their classroom practice. Her research on developmentally appropriate technologies has been published in Young Children, The Reading Teacher, and the Journal of Early Childhood Research, and she was a contributor to the fourth edition of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8. Dr. Fantozzi lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, two sons, and cat and hedgehog. This is her first book.