What is it about?
This article explores the potential for change in schools. It focusses on the early years and illustrates that transformation is possible. It reports on some of the data collected over a 4 year period when iPads were introduced into early childhood centres and Primary school classes. It describes new learning scenarios and changes in pedagogies that supported deep learning characterised by engagement with ideas and building and sharing new knowledge.
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Why is it important?
The article shares learning scenarios in which new technologies have become integrated into pedagogies and practices to enrich new learning. The learning scenarios will enable educators to envisage what transformation looks like and how they might be able to incorporate them into the own pedagogical repertoire.
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This four year study was funded by IBM and the Department of Education in Victoria (Australia). When we started thinking about it way back at the end of 2011 - iPads were only just over a year old and it was only in the second iteration that they incorporated cameras and the Apps available were becoming increasingly interesting and fun to use. It was so enjoyable to be part of exploring the potential of something that has unlimited potential if used in create and appropriate ways!
Nicola Yelland
Flinders University
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This page is a summary of: Transformative technologies and play in the early years: Using tablets for new learning, Global Studies of Childhood, October 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2043610617734985.
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