TCDS305 ICT in early childhood education
TCDS305 ICT Assessment 3
Critique an ICT policy for an early childhood education and care setting with reference to recent research findings and established theories regarding the role of ICT in early childhood.
After critiquing the policy, design a strategy for including ICT learning tools across the program. Resources must be identified as well as any staff training indicated.
Equivalent 2,000 words
Weighting 40%
Due date: 30th September 2019
Learning outcomes:
- Review recent research findings and established theories to analyse and discuss the role of ICT in early childhood pedagogy
- Develop a critical framework for the use of ICT resources across the program with consideration of the socio cultural context of the learners and families attending the service
- Select and critique a range of ICT resources including hardware and software options for both learner and teacher use in the production of learning resources and documentation
TCDS305 Instructions
When referring to experts or references in your paper, you must acknowledge the source.
You will be required to submit a paper (2,000 words), detailing the policy and all of the related assessment content.
- The paper must relate to the early childhood education and care setting
- You need to include a strategy for including ICT tools across the program
- Clearly identify the resources you would include as well as the rationale for these (why)
- Include staff training and other PD requirements to support the policy
- Include discussion on the role of ICT in early childhood pedagogy
- Support this discussion with recent ICT research findings and established theories
- Include a critical framework for the use of ICT resources backcross the program
- Include consideration of the socio-cultural context of the learners, and families accessing the particular service. You will need to outline this in your submission.
- Include a range of ICT resources , including hardware and software options within the policy document
- Include reference to policy and software options for both learner and educator use in the production of learning resources
- Include reference to policy and software options for both learner and educator use in documentation and planning
- Ensure policy ICT software options and resource capability supports quality areas and assessment requirements for the service
As with all academic work, you are required to appropriately reference relevant content, following Harvard referencing guidelines in your paper submission.