Today’s Australian children are growing up in digital contexts. In 2018, Early Childhood Australia launched the Declaration on Young Children and Digital Technologies. The Declaration recognizes that young children have opportunities for play and pedagogy in digital contexts.
Play and pedagogy in the digital realm involve children using a variety of devices for exploration, meaning creation, collaboration, and problem solving. Educators are involved in active decision-making about the use and non-use of digital technologies for learning, using EYLF learning outcomes to guide and shape their thinking.
The Modern Teaching Aids (MTA) team understands that interactive audio-visual solutions, such as an interactive educational flat panel, can be transformative in an early learning environment, supporting educators and other professionals to work to convert. children in effective and safe and involved communicators. apprentices.
Interactive AV technology offers bright screens for powerful game-based exploration and collaboration through engaging interactive activities.
The MTA Panel designed for educators and children
The MTA’s interactive plan panel for education is designed specifically for educators. It is full of features that allow children and educators to display and interact with content like never before.
Internet connectivity makes the panel the perfect vehicle to introduce children to the sights and sounds of the world from the safety and security of their family service. Through the panel, early childhood services can take children to the heart of Australia on a visit to the Uluru, the Louvre or to see Van Gogh’s work in Amsterdam.
With the MTA Interactive Flat Panel, touch screen technology offers one of the most powerful benefits for open or active learning. Writing on the panel is simple, even for the smallest hands. The multi-touch screen allows multiple users at once, creating opportunities for imaginative group play on the panel. Tracing letters, exploring raw materials or letting children express themselves through art and painting becomes a joy.
And if you have to capture the early efforts of branding and children’s handwriting, that’s easy – just save the screen! It’s a great way to share it with parents or caregivers during collection, or to send via mobile apps to show what the kids have been working on. Educators can resume where they left off, reviewing previous work to continue an activity.
The educational whiteboard software package includes a number of features, especially useful in early childhood settings. The Declaration on Young Children and Digital Technologies notes that preschool children in childcare and care settings can benefit from the use of touch screen technology that involves the considered use of applications.
Apps have different levels of quality and educational design, and educators can apply their expertise to consider how different apps suit children’s play interests or to create new opportunities for children to mix and match modes of communication in digital form, such as video, audio, images and text.
The MTA interactive flat panel includes a wide range of applications, tools and features that offer children opportunities to explore with touch screen in these areas. For example, they could become astronauts during the day. Educators can take a picture of the solar system and explore space, draw a path through the stars, or plan a trip to outer space.
Exploring animals or plants or volcanoes interactively is another option, with the educator or children using the panel annotation tool to draw on the screen and the multi-touch screen to write, draw, express and build stories.
Rotating tools with children’s names create a great way to select names and help with transitions and help children move from one planned activity or experience to another.
For music or activities that require quality sound, the front speakers mean that the sound is shared directly through the panel, without the need for an additional sound bar.
Educators can also customize their favorite apps and files with shortcut tools, allowing them to easily switch from one screen to another without any problems.
Promethean panels bring life to early learning environments
MTA also offers a wide range of Promethean panels in a variety of sizes to bring any early learning environment to life.
The Promethean ActivPanel Nickel 65 ″ is an interactive flat panel that pleases the crowd in any early learning environment with the award-winning ActivInspire educational software and an Android 8 operating system that offers speed and reliability with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of RAM. storage.
With a boundless canvas, the writing space on the blackboard never ends, with a canvas that can be extended in all directions, supporting children’s creative expression.
Sharing the screen among other devices in an early learning environment is also easy with an interactive flat screen. Share content for lessons, connect with any device, whether iOS, Android or Windows … from photos to videos and number games, it’s easy to share content from a smaller device in the dashboard.
Wushka: Designed specifically for educators to develop early literacy
For educators, one of the most special moments of an early learning day is story time, and with an interactive flat screen, this activity takes on a new digital dimension. With a digital reading program for young minds, such as Wushka, educators can use decodable items on the board to help children practice emerging reading skills and build confidence.
Developed by MTA, Australia-based Wushka also has a carefully leveled reader library to support reading. Storytime can work on a scale that will captivate children as they develop their literacy skills in group learning activities.
An interactive panel can really be an educator’s reference tool for a day or a week. It can play a key role in supporting wellness programs such as yoga, exercise or mindfulness.
Whether playing a YouTube video or using one of the many programs through the panel browser, children’s senses can be explored and the development of gross motor skills can be supported.
Flat panels can be wall mounted at a fixed or adjustable height or be in a mobile cart to move around the space, all flexible options to invite participation and learning.
For more information about MTA IAV technology, for more information, or to book a demo, contact your MTA representative, by phone at 1800 251 497, or by email. [email protected]