Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies: Developmental Applications and Methodologies

Blake, Sally, Izumi-Taylor, Satomi

IGI Global, Aug 31, 2009 - Education - 294 pages

With the ever-present growth in technology, opportunities to explore and experience technology at an early age are increasingly important in order to develop problem-solving and thinking skills.

Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies provides readers with valuable and authentic research on how technology relates to early childhood growth. Including international perspectives on technology and education from expert authors, this book discusses important issues of assessment, teacher education, special education, and family involvement in terms of technology.

Contents

• Reflections Concerning Technology: 1
• Computer Technology in Taiwan Kindergartens: 20
• TechKnowledge in Japanese Early Childhood Education: 49
• Technology and Preschool Education in Mexico: 70
• Technology and its Role in Teacher Education: 94
• Using Assistive Technology: 114
• Applications of Technology for Instruction and Assessment with Young Children: 131
• Promoting Family Involvement through Using Technology: 149
• Technology Integration in Early Childhood and Primary Classrooms: 162
• Building Epistemic Awareness in the Early Childhood Classroom: 177
• Technology Resources and Software Recommended for Young Children and Teachers: 217
• Appendix A: 233
• Appendix B: 236
• Appendix C: 238
• Compilation of References: 240
• About the Contributors: 266
• Index: 270

About the author

Sally Blake is an associate professor in early childhood at the University of Memphis. Sally has been the PI on more than $600,000 dollars of Eisenhower funds and $700,000 of NASA funds for teacher training and professional development. Sally Blake was the Director and Co-PI of the NSF sponsored Partnership for Excellence in Teacher Education (PETE) and the Noyce Scholarship program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was also a research fellow with the NSF Center for Research on Educational Reform,(MSP project) a teaching fellow with the NSF Center for Effective Teaching and Learning( MIE project), co-developer of the Research Pedagogical Labs and the MAT degree in the College of Science (MSP project), and Co-PI on the NSF GK-12 grant. She is the Faculty Research Director of the Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood School and Research Institute.

Satomi Izumi-Taylor is a professor of early childhood education in the department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership at the University of Memphis. She received her doctorate in family and child development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and her mater?s degree in early childhood education from San Francisco State University. She was awarded the College of Education Outstanding Award for Research in 2003, the Dean?s Excellence Award in Teaching in 2004, the Dean?s Excellence Award in Mentoring in 2005, the College of Education?s Ellery Earl Crader Professor of Education Award in 2006, and the Dean?s Excellence Award in Service in 2008. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on cognitive, social, and moral development in children, pre-service teacher education, play, Japanese early childhood education, and reflection. Her current research interests include cross-cultural studies of childcare in China, Japan, the United States, and Sweden; pre-service teachers? notion of technology in Japan; New Zealand, the US, and Taiwan; and American and Japanese pre-service teachers? teaching science. [Editor]

Bibliographic information

• Title: Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies: Developmental Applications and Methodologies; Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership
• Editors: Blake, Sally, Izumi-Taylor, Satomi
• Publisher: IGI Global, 2009
• ISBN: 1605667854, 9781605667850
• Length: 294 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Education / Curricula; Education / Research