After attending a RedSOLARE’s conference called Viajando con los niños a través de mundos digitales, early childhood teachers presented a workshop for our section’s faculty meant to provoke curiosity and interest in the use of technology with young children.
Teachers were brought to a magical, awe inspiring environment created with different materials (flashlights, mirrors, pieces of fabric, plastic shapes, toys) and technological resources (smart board, webcam, an LCD projector, an overhead projector, desktop, and laptop) and asked to interact and explore the possibilities these materials offer young children. For the first few minutes we asked teachers to do this in silence so that the materials could speak for themselves.
By playing and manipulating light, shadow, shapes, perspective, and movement, teachers created stories, moods, and surroundings and learned how to introduce and better use different technological resources in their classrooms.