ICT in kindergarten

ICT in kindergarten is a subject who is relevante in the community. It is in the resent years it has been discussed and seen as important. Because ITC is a fundemental skill who place equal with skills like reading, writing and arthmetic in school, it`s important that children already in kindergaten gets experiences with it.

Every kindergarten in Norway is imposed to plan their work based on a national curriculum, in this curriculum we can fin a chapter how tells us how to work with ITC.

"The children should experience that digital tools can be a source to play, communicate and acqustition of knowledge"

a yong child who explores a computer

Through work and practice I have had a chance to see how differnet kindergartens work with ICT. My experience says that many kindergartens dont even know that they are required to use digital tools, and follow guidelines in the national curriculum.
This tells me that ITC has not been seen as important in kindergarten, and i can hear that the staff has negative attitudes.

I belive that it`s the adults in kindergarten who has to change their views and have the ability to see the positive aspects of ITC.  Through working with ITC the children will learn new and challengig ways to work with whilde developing compentent children. When children starts school and later in job it is usally arranged so that they could master the digital tools http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/the-benefits-of-introducing-young-children-to-ict-3072

Studies show that today there are more than 75% of all househols have access to a computer, and if you look at famelies with small children 95% have computers at home.http://medienorge.uib.no/?cat=statistikk&medium=it&queryID=251 Digital tools are becoming more prominent in our societystudies shows that mor that 77% of children aged 6-13 years old use the computer to play games. Playing videogames is something most children like to do, if you aquire knowledge about different games one can se that there are also games that are educational for children.¨
This is a video where cildren can learn the alfabeth.

The key for working with ITC in kindergarten is knowledge. Through knowledge you will see the importace og ITC