...for another year. I have to say that the pre-conference workshop and Ulearn presentations that were put on by the early childhood sector were fantastic.
Check out the blogs from these kindergarten:
Geraldine Kindergarten
Greenwood Kindergarten
Manaia Kindergarten
Derek Wenmoth warned in his keynote (and the teachers from Manaia Kindergarten reinforced that idea as part of the closing keynote) that primary schools had better start looking over their shoulders, and he is right. We have children in NZ starting school with a web presence already (their own blogs and myspace/facebook/bebo pages), using skype, knowing about google, and expecting that they will be able to use cameras and ICT gear when they deem it appropriate to the task they are doing. If our concern is engagement, and children are starting school with these expectations, what do teachers need to be doing in order to engage, extend and challenge them? Perhaps the first step is to acknowledge these realities, and get beyond some of the barriers that we put in the way!
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