Open Discussion Forum

  • 1.  Technology and Young Children Interest Forum. STEMIE Innovation in Early Education Center

    Posted 14 days ago

    Dear Hello Community,


    Interested in attending quarterly meetings to learn/share about ways to use technology to benefit young children and families? The NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum will hold Zoom meetings and discuss a range of topics. The next meeting will take place this Thursday, April 18 at 4:30 ET- contact luzmariaconsidine@gmail.com for details on how to join the meeting.

     

    Join us for an enlightening session on the STEMIE Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center, featuring the expertise of Amy Turcotte, an Early Childhood Technology Coach at Project Eagle Head Start/Educare KC. Discover and explore in depth the STEMIE website (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and how to use its resources in your classroom to engage young children with disabilities in STEM interactions.

     

     Place: 

    https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82318365574?pwd=anfye2FQaMib7lPRIDhPmxwLbJzvxv.1

    Meeting ID: 823 1836 5574
    Passcode: 4baxKL

    Time: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET (PLEASE CHECK YOUR LOCAL TIME)

    Date: Thursday April 18th, 2024


     



  • 2.  RE: Technology and Young Children Interest Forum. STEMIE Innovation in Early Education Center

    Posted 13 days ago

    We need to add A for arts

    So much is being done with art and technology 



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    Kristy Harrell-Huskey, Ed.D.
    Early Education Consultant
    South Carolina
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  • 3.  RE: Technology and Young Children Interest Forum. STEMIE Innovation in Early Education Center

    Posted 12 days ago

    Hi Kristy,

    I agree! I teach a STEM integration class and an Arts integration class. They are both so fun to teach but overlap immensely.  A project I tried this semester was to have my students write a poem and then they used AI to generate an image for it.  There were some really interesting results!

    Deb



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    Deb Martinez
    Clinical Professor, ECE, ELEM, SPED
    Arizona State University
    Phoenix AZ
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  • 4.  RE: Technology and Young Children Interest Forum. STEMIE Innovation in Early Education Center

    Posted 3 days ago

    Deb- that use of AI sounds so interesting. Can you share a bit about the process/AI tools used to create the images and/or student learning/comments? (inspired by your post, just tried Google's free AI image generation tool: https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/image-fx and while there were some interesting results, realized I would have to play around with it some more to try and get close to what I had in mind...)



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    Bonnie Blagojevic
    Morningtown Consulting
    ME
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  • 5.  RE: Technology and Young Children Interest Forum. STEMIE Innovation in Early Education Center

    Posted 3 days ago
    Kristy- great point. Helping children learn to use tech to express themselves is so important. From simple uses, like use of digital drawing tools and/or audio recording or photo mark up (some examples can be found in the NAEYC article Harnessing Potential: Integrating Technology and Media into Preschool and Dream Yard story activity shared in this  NAEYC blog post) to incorporating use of Augmented Reality or AI, helping children (and families) learn how to use a variety of materials and tools to create ands share children's  powerful ideas is so important. I hope you/others might share some of the stories/examples from your experience, of children using tech to create/art. 


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    Bonnie Blagojevic
    Morningtown Consulting
    ME
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