Dionísia Laranjeiro (CIDTFF), Maria João Antunes & Paula Santos (CIDTFF) | EDULEARN18 Proceedings, pp. 5089-5096
Excerto:
Children in pre-school education may benefit from using tablet devices because of their portability and multi-touch interaction. Also, there is a variety of educational apps that expose children to different forms of knowledge (linguistic, logical, creative, artistic) and develop skills such as critical thinking, collaboration and creativity. Recent research shows positive effects of using tablets with pre-schoolers, associated with high motivation, improvements in language, communication and maths.This paper describes the use of educational apps by children in kindergarten for the creation of their self-portrait, with the intention of exposing them to digital activities and sharing results with parents on a communication platform. This is part of a wider research focused on the creation and use of a platform for parental involvement in kindergarten. At this stage, the research team is testing strategies to dynamize the platform, and verify what motivates parents to participate more actively. One possibility to experiment is the involvement of children in the dynamization of the platform, sharing their creations with parents. To test this possibility, children from one classroom attended a workshop where they created their self-portrait, with tablets and educational apps.
This article presents the self-portrait workshop – objectives, planning, selection of apps, realization of the workshop in four moments:
1) introduction to the theme self-portrait and brief demo of the apps;
2) creation of physical self-portrait on paper;
3) creation of physical self-portrait with a drawing app;
4) creation of a psychological self-portrait movie with an animation app.
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Referência:
Laranjeiro, D., Antunes, M.J. , Santos, P. (2018). Tablets in kindergarten for learning and parental involvement. In EDULEARN18 Proceedings, pp. 5089-5096. doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2018.1245. Retrieved from: https://library.iated.org/view/LARANJEIRO2018TAB
