Integrating Technology into Literacy Instruction
Literacy is developed throughout a young student’s day. In this technological age, schools are seeing technology as a tool to engage learners, as well as provide dynamic content not readily available in books.
Create a professional development digital presentation of 12-15 slides on incorporating technology in the early childhood classroom.
Presentation must address the following:
- Explain the positive and the negative use of technology in the early childhood classroom to develop language and literacy skills. Include research to support your claims.
- Explain the importance of considering the learners’ needs and development when selecting instructional technology.
- Describe developmentally appropriate practices to ensure the safe, legal, and ethical use of technology in the classroom.
- Identify three different literacy standards and discuss ways technology can support instruction for each standard.
- Describe 3-5 technological tools to support literacy instruction and how the tools could be implemented in the early childhood classroom.
Include a title slide, reference slide, and speaker’s notes.
Support your findings with 2-3 scholarly resources.
While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Ce
Requirements: 12-15 slides including speaker notes.
Answer preview
- Education plays a foundational role in a child’s development.
- It provides learners with basic skills for further learning and better social interactions in future.
- The world has witnessed a gradual advancement in the technological realm.
- As such, technology has found its way into education
The presentation addresses the different complexities that technology use creates
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