Portfolio Presentation

Welcome Thio.

My portfolio presentation I am Amanda Maren was his for

the School of Education at Pacific Oaks College E 3

65 technology in early childhood education.

First, we will talk about the N a Y C

standards Theun.

We will go into the artifacts that support the standards

on. Then we will look at the rationale of these

different artifacts on.

Then I will reflect on the class and what I've

learned and what I'm going to be taking moving forward.

Her first slide is the standard I chose the in

a wasti standard four.

Substandard see developmentally culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Teaching you practices I'm going to read the standard for

you is to use a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate

culturally and linguistically relevant anti bias evidence based teaching skills

and strategies that reflect the principles of universal designed for

learning. On the other piece of this quite a long

standard. Um, but the piece that was really relevant thio

my work and the artifacts that I chose was this

one that designing, teaching and learning environments that adhere to

the principles of universal design for learning by incorporating a

variety of ways for young Children to gain access to

the curriculum content, offering multiple teaching strategies to actively engage

Children and including a range of formats to enable all

Children to respond and demonstrate what they know and have

learned. It's quite a mouthful to basically say that we're

designing environments and spaces for everyone to be able to

access and learn and utilize, using a lot of different

means and curriculum and tools so that everyone is actively

engaged and, um really focused and really just delving into

the play and learning, you know, all the ways that

they know how and all the ways that they're able

to. So let's look at the artifacts that I have

chosen to support these standards.

Mhm. I chose to different artifacts my position, paper as

well as the case studies that we worked on.

My first artifact was the position, paper, um, specifically the

section regarding cultural sensitivity and accessibility, as it particularly pertains

to the standard foresee.

And then there's the case study.

I chose to explore case study be and in this

case study, there was a lot of work, um, about

open houses and home visits on delving into how we

welcome new families into communities.

Eso the rationale of these artifacts of the position paper.

It was chosen because of the research that I did

for this paper.

Time and again, it really supported the piece of the

standard four that talked about how all the different abilities

and the cultures and the interests of the groups, um

and that that educators really need to take all of

this into account when there making judgments on what they're

going to be presenting and utilizing and using a classroom.

And so when I made me think about when we're

going to be introducing technology and tools of, um, media

and that sort of thing into the classroom, um, specifically,

my position paper was on ipads and APS on When

we're using those in the classroom, we're thinking about what

languages do Children speak at home?

What kind of celebrations do they have?

What kind of, um, different home coaches do We want

to bring into the classrooms to that Children feel welcome.

And on dhe seeing and heard and honored and celebrated,

what can you physically do?

That's one of the things about ipads that turned out

to be really wonderful.

Is that so many Children can physically access and utilize

it because it's so simple.

It's it's touching and swiping, and multiple Children can use

it at the same time, and young Children can use

it. And there's so many different APS out there that

you can download to support different languages and different ideas,

and, um, and the accessibility behind it.

They're not all that expensive, and it was just really,

um I opening and how broad and impressively useful that

could be as a tool when introduced, really intentionally, um,

alongside real world experiences, of course.

And then there's the case study, which was my second

artifact. And, um, I spent a lot of time thinking

about how the teachers in the case studies spent time

in the home visits really learning about Children's home cultures.

And I'm thinking about when they met together, designing the

environment for the open house and for families and Children

when they first came into the environment, how they wanted

to bring that home culture into the classroom and bring

Children's abilities into the classroom.

And they spent time talking about that.

And here I'm working together on how they could do

that um there's a lot of attention spent on designing

environments. Thio make them accessible on culturally sensitive.

So I really brought my attention to that And how

that would be, um, a really great artifact for a

subset or standard for a subset C.

Okay. Eso my reflection, um, on this class and what

I've learned, um, was that I came in with sort

of a narrow view of what was acceptable technology to

use in early childhood education.

Classroom. I come from a young classroom background, infants and

toddlers, and we really tried not to rely on technology

at all.

And I came from sort of a view that that

was the way that it should be.

Um, and I really opened my mind to seeing that

there's so many different ways that with intentionality and, um,

just really being, um, having the education around age appropriateness

and, um, knowing what you're doing and why you're doing

it, how it's actually kind of important to support raising

Children in this digital age, having some exposure to this

sort of thing.

Um, because it's it's our goal in our sort of

our duty as educators to provide and education and prepare

Children for the world that they're living in currently.

Um, not necessarily prepare them for the future.

But, you know, they're currently living in this world right

now, and we need to meet them in this world

that they're living in right now and not pretend that

this is not happening.

Um, so really embracing that as part of who these

Children are coming into it.

This is part of their culture.

And if we're going to say that we're culturally sensitive,

then we need to embrace technology and media as part

of who they are and what they're bringing.

Um, so that's what I really learned.

Um, and then all the different.

I really appreciate all the different tools on sources on

being able Thio provide sort of back up for my

staff on how to do this intentionally and how to

do this.

Um, in a way, that's best practice.

Um, so I think that was really helpful for me.

Um, I'm relying on the Fred Rogers in any way,

see article really heavily to be able to support that

with my staff and with my families.

Um, And then this idea of digital citizenship really struck

a chord with me both for the Children that were

working with and as a parent to because I have

ah, young seven year old who is on online a

lot now because of digital learning on dhe.

This idea was never brought up to her who was

never brought up to me.

And that's a huge failing on the part of the

public school system.

And, um, it's up to us to give our Children

this information.

And so I really appreciate learning that through this course

and how to do that on, I'm gonna be moving

forward with that in my heart and being able thio,

educate young Children as well as elementary Children on traversing

this world of media and technology use in the safest

way possible.

Yeah, thank you so much for hearing my portfolio presentation.

Here's the references for some of the information I got

on the slides.

Hm. I look forward to seeing some of yours.

A ZX.

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