ICT to make learning more complex.....

here's a synopsis of some of the research results undertaken by the then team of Pukerua Bay Kindergarten into ICT, teaching and learning. These are the signposts the kindergarten identified as common behaviours in their learning stories showing some ICT inclusion in some part of each episode as contributing to better learning outcomes.... a result not to be sneezed at. Self review with qualitative data....

Kindergartens today....

Here's a very recent DVD that creates a thumbnail picture of Kindergarten - where we came from and in today's world... This is a case in point about the use of media to communicate your philosophy and wider programme to the learning communities you are working in partnership with- or potentially working with. On the same train of thought....It was interesting to read the latest book from Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee " Learning stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education' referring time and time again to either DVD or the use of image or digital files and ways to cross boundaries between contexts.