"My Technology Lesson Plan"

Ed Tech ECDE Activity Plan by Kyedeana Mosley on Scribd

Reflective Wrap-Up

I am a program coordinator at the center that I work at, so I am not really in one room or another, I am in all six of the classroom daily though. I can tell you that as part of the administration team we have made sure each classroom has some sort of technology incorporated onto the daily program. The school age children have three computers and two tablets. All three preschool rooms and both infant/toddler rooms have one computer and two tablets. One of my biggest concerns are that the staff just allow the children to have too much meaningless screen time. Another concern is that children are not always monitored as they should be. I don't want to take the technology away, so I have planned a staff meeting to discuss proper usage. Too much technology in the classroom can lead to lower scores on classroom environmental rating scales and I just want the staff to be aware of this. I love that the children have the exposure, but sometimes it can be misused. I plan to have them limit the use to absolutely no movies, show, cartoon or anything non-educational even if it goes alone with there interest or theme. I have hopes of them limiting technology usage to an average of an hour per school day. Available for use during open center times. Maybe a little more for school age due to them actually using theirs from mostly educational purposes already and it being so many of the in the room. One hour would not serve as enough time for 20-30 children unless grouped together to work.

Within that time frame of use we might encounter some technical errors like low memory, servers going down, systems overheating or fried motherboard. All of these issue can bring the technology to a complete halt. When these types of problem occur teachers usually move on to another activity until the repairs are made. These kinds of errors mostly affects the school age group of children and the staff.  For most of the time they are working on something "big and juicy" as they call it. The preschool and under don't really care about having to do other activities, in fact I think that most of the time they would rather. I do not believe that the children in our program will have many struggles with technology if any at all. I think they are born knowing how to work a cell phone and tablet these days. But seriously I see them come in the the childcare center younger and younger using their parents devices. As far as kik, snapchat, facebook and any other type of social media, it is not allowed nor encouraged with any of the age groups that we serve. In fact we had to do a no personal tablet and cellphone rule due to a picture being taken with a phone of one class mate and another posting it  on some social media website. Even though it was nothing more then the child not wanting the picture posted because she did not like the face she was making, it became an issue brought to my attention by her parents, so we had to end that.

Every year at the end of the summer the school age children put on this huge talent show to showcase some of what they have been working on. They dance, sing, role play and conduct, but never get to see how they did due to them actually being the ones to perform. This year I am going to assign them my ipad to allow the to record, review and watch how great they are and then at the end of the making of it all I plan on putting together a slide show type of presentation and play it in the white board for their parent to see as they wait for the show to begin. They can even watch it at the end of the show as well. I also will be able to send it to each family if they are interested, after getting consent to video/photograph forms signed by each family of coarse. I am defiantly not a digital native. This is all new to me. I have been doing a little more since taking this class. I plan to continue to embark on this technological journey with the help of my three teen aged children. They are really patient with me and are willing to show me the tech tricks that they know and are learning from school or friends. Its so funny though, because I can remember when we had one up on our parents back in the day with the whole star sixty-nine thing. Its crazy to see how this newer generation has surpassed us so greatly as we scramble to catch up, well me anyway. I find that nothing frustrates me nor excite me about technology. I still remain neutral to to it and as long as I have somebody there to show me the way, I am not worried at all.

 Till next time
Kye Mosley

Classroom Design

Ms. Kye's Preschool Class 

I have based my classroom design on the fact that in my world I would have no more than twelve students at a time. If we were doing a large group activity then each student would have a seat at one of the student table and I could be at the kidney table instructing. I would be able to have a child or two come up to my table and work on giving them any extra support. As I conduct my morning large group activities we would meet on the carpet where the three beanbags and the projector is so that if I need to use the white board the space is suitable for all to see no matter where they chose to sit. Children in my class would be able to use the this area throughout the day to read, sing and dance as well as get an Ipad off the shelf to work on. In fact there would be an Ipad for each child and myself on the shelf closet to that area. Each child would have their name on their class Ipad and on their Ipad I would install educational apps such as "ABC Mouse" and "ABC Trace it" and other apps where I can track what they do and learn. During open center time the student would be able to choose any area within the room to work in small groups, with one peer or alone. 

I chose not to incorporate a couch into my design because I learned the hard way that a couch sends two messages to this age group, one being jumping fun and the other nap time and I do not want to subconsciously promote either. Another thing I chose not to use in my classroom is a TV. I just feel that with all the other technology in the room a TV is useless. We can watch anything on the projector, computer or Ipads. Besides when I had a TV in my real classroom the children would always ask if they could watch "Bubble Guppies, Paw Patrol or Frozen" and when told we did not have those shows and movies and they could watch them at home, they became upset. But for whatever reason they never ask to watch those thing on the projector on white board. 

I added a music supply storage cabinet because I love music and want the children to have access to many types of music during the year. In this cabinet there will be props such as ribbons and scarves for dancing, article clothing from different cultures as well as instruments for a variety of style. We can look up and play videos of different cultures dancing and playing their native music. I do this in my real class and the children are anxious to see what I will play each week.