Laptops/ICT equipment

[mumofone]

Does anyone provide a laptop or any ICT equipment for their mindees? What ages use it? Do you have any specialist software/child safety software installed on it? What do the children like to use it for? Do you have the latest Microsoft office and windows installed etc? How dyou find it works?

[FloraDora]

I provide an iPad.
Children are young - under4 but access APs easily - games/ stories I have put on.
They are always supervised.

[natlou82]

I have a laptop which I may consider letting older mindees use for homework, but that would be it. They have access to a wii (but not all the time). I choose not to let mindees on tablets.

[bunyip]

Does anyone provide a laptop or any ICT equipment for their mindees? What ages use it? Do you have any specialist software/child safety software installed on it? What do the children like to use it for? Do you have the latest Microsoft office and windows installed etc? How dyou find it works?

Wow. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone suggest that Microsoft products work.

[Simona]

Does anyone provide a laptop or any ICT equipment for their mindees? What ages use it? Do you have any specialist software/child safety software installed on it? What do the children like to use it for? Do you have the latest Microsoft office and windows installed etc? How dyou find it works?

It depends on what you categorise as ICT....laptops, IPads and PC are only a small selection of what is considered as ICT

[mumofone]

It depends on what you categorise as ICT....laptops, IPads and PC are only a small selection of what is considered as ICT

Hi simona, thanks Yep I'm just thinking initially in terms of providing a laptop whether there are any particular programmes kids use and any child safety Internet software I may need etc...

[Simona]

Hi simona, thanks Yep I'm just thinking initially in terms of providing a laptop whether there are any particular programmes kids use and any child safety Internet software I may need etc...

...and those will be in addition to all the ICT already around your setting?

[lollipop kid]

...and those will be in addition to all the ICT already around your setting?

I have to say that I struggle with what constitutes ICT.

At my setting, I let the children look at photos of themselves on my phone. I let them move the mouse when I'm at my desk so that they can help me select "The Wheels on the Bus" (CBeebies version - it features British Sign Language) or one of the other videos that I have on my Mac. (I've put a link below if it's useful to anyone.) I also love showing them Muppets videos (which they can dance along to - such as "Popcorn" with the Swedish Chef - the little Ikea pots in my home corner look like the Chef's ones; and we laugh at him on the phone; or "Mono mena"). Another favourite is the McVities BK adverts (especially the Christmas one - with lots of baby animals. That's my theme at the moment as part of Spring.) I let them use the Mouse to start these and take turns.

Other ICT is a digital camera (not used often as they are a bit rough with it and I've only got one, so sharing is an issue); calculators, then there's the remote control for our TV. (It's not used much but I have just loaded photos of the children onto a memory stick, so they can take turns to press the play button and start the slideshow on themselves.)

I nearly forgot - do interactive books count? I've got Jemima Puddleduck, which features buttons so you can hear Kep the Collie Bark, and Jemina quack, and then there's the good old fox saying "Indeed Jemima".

If anyone has got other ideas, I'd love to hear. Here are a couple of our favourites (I like to share).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljUt1VyPnGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

McVitie's cute Christmas advert shows kittens, piglet and puppies emerge from a box of biscuits | Daily Mail Online

All the best,

L

[Simona]

I have to say that I struggle with what constitutes ICT.

At my setting, I let the children look at photos of themselves on my phone. I let them move the mouse when I'm at my desk so that they can help me select "The Wheels on the Bus" (CBeebies version - it features British Sign Language) or one of the other videos that I have on my Mac. (I've put a link below if it's useful to anyone.) I also love showing them Muppets videos (which they can dance along to - such as "Popcorn" with the Swedish Chef - the little Ikea pots in my home corner look like the Chef's ones; and we laugh at him on the phone; or "Mono mena"). Another favourite is the McVities BK adverts (especially the Christmas one - with lots of baby animals. That's my theme at the moment as part of Spring.) I let them use the Mouse to start these and take turns.

Other ICT is a digital camera (not used often as they are a bit rough with it and I've only got one, so sharing is an issue); calculators, then there's the remote control for our TV. (It's not used much but I have just loaded photos of the children onto a memory stick, so they can take turns to press the play button and start the slideshow on themselves.)

I nearly forgot - do interactive books count? I've got Jemima Puddleduck, which features buttons so you can hear Kep the Collie Bark, and Jemina quack, and then there's the good old fox saying "Indeed Jemima".

If anyone has got other ideas, I'd love to hear. Here are a couple of our favourites (I like to share).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljUt1VyPnGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

McVitie's cute Christmas advert shows kittens, piglet and puppies emerge from a box of biscuits | Daily Mail Online

All the best,

L

The best guidance is in the Development Matters
Understanding the World: Technology gives a good guide on what to use: cameras, keys, radios, photocopiers, tape recorders, microphones, intercoms, pelican crossing, also those kids' computers like Dora's laptop which are programmable toys


Other resources are: egg whisk, torch, pulleys, construction kits
One good idea is to have a basket with old items...check they are safe

Can't go wrong with DM!!!

[lollipop kid]

The best guidance is in the Development Matters
Understanding the World: Technology gives a good guide on what to use: cameras, keys, radios, photocopiers, tape recorders, microphones, intercoms, pelican crossing, also those kids' computers like Dora's laptop which are programmable toys


Other resources are: egg whisk, torch, pulleys, construction kits
One good idea is to have a basket with old items...check they are safe

Can't go wrong with DM!!!

Brilliant! Thanks a million.



L

[mumofone]

I provide an iPad. Children are young - under4 but access APs easily - games/ stories I have put on. They are always supervised.

Do you have specialist Internet safety software on it flora to prevent children accessing "unsavoury websites"?

[mumofone]

The best guidance is in the Development Matters Understanding the World: Technology gives a good guide on what to use: cameras, keys, radios, photocopiers, tape recorders, microphones, intercoms, pelican crossing, also those kids' computers like Dora's laptop which are programmable toys Other resources are: egg whisk, torch, pulleys, construction kits One good idea is to have a basket with old items...check they are safe Can't go wrong with DM!!!

How are keys ICT Simona? Am I being thick?!! :-)

[Simona]

How are keys ICT Simona? Am I being thick?!! :-)

Keys are 'technology'...if you look at DM p 42 they come under CoEL...exploring and thinking critically and understanding what they do and why.

[FloraDora]

How are keys ICT Simona? Am I being thick?!! :-)

Technology for Early years is around ' making something work' . So, pressing buttons to turn things on, keys turn things on ...like a car, motorbike - my toy till has a key to open the drawer - I have a house with 4 doors and keys open them..small toys that require a key to turn to make them go..padlocks and keys to open....its basic technology - very little 'works' without a turning action which isn't electronic. All technology isn't electronics....'turning' is a basic mechanism...that's transferring a rotating motion into linear motion, or in a door lock it's an example of reciprocating motion.......but in EY we have to start somewhere!

So the simple action of turning a key is fundamental to how most mechanisms work.

[bunyip]

Keys. Strictly speaking, they're not ICT (unless they're on a keyboard) since "ICT" stands for "information and communication technology".

That said, they are "technology" and therefore enough to please Ofsted and certainly worth learning about. Where I live, I do wish people would recognise that keys, locks, and doors represent precision instruments and that the correct way to secure a door is not to slam the £V<% out of it. I've already had the locksmith out once to fix a bad case of cumulative door abuse.

Tbh, where I live, banging two rocks together passes for advanced technology.

[Simona]

Keys. Strictly speaking, they're not ICT (unless they're on a keyboard) since "ICT" stands for "information and communication technology".

That said, they are "technology" and therefore enough to please Ofsted and certainly worth learning about. Where I live, I do wish people would recognise that keys, locks, and doors represent precision instruments and that the correct way to secure a door is not to slam the £V<% out of it. I've already had the locksmith out once to fix a bad case of cumulative door abuse.

Tbh, where I live, banging two rocks together passes for advanced technology.

It depends on how we interpret ICT...I always thought it was Information Communication Technology...if you put the 'and' in between you change the meaning of the initial?...or is that my dubious interpretation ?

As Flora Dora stated keys are used for a specific reason so I would say they are technology
I don't think it is to please Ofsted but to give children the opportunity to work things out?
Keys are in DM and Ofsted do not go anywhere near that document now because they use EYO

I remember having keys in my resources well before Ofsted came on the scene...babies are usually given plastic keys to play with but I know they would rather have the real thing?

[mumofone]

It depends on how we interpret ICT...I always thought it was Information Communication Technology...if you put the 'and' in between you change the meaning of the initial?...or is that my dubious interpretation ? As Flora Dora stated keys are used for a specific reason so I would say they are technology I don't think it is to please Ofsted but to give children the opportunity to work things out? Keys are in DM and Ofsted do not go anywhere near that document now because they use EYO I remember having keys in my resources well before Ofsted came on the scene...babies are usually given plastic keys to play with but I know they would rather have the real thing?

Hi Simona, what dyou mean by OFSTED don't go near DM? It's still a current doc isn't it? Thought I best check as things change so quickly!

[Simona]

Hi Simona, what dyou mean by OFSTED don't go near DM? It's still a current doc isn't it? Thought I best check as things change so quickly!

Both docs are still current and they are not statutory
When planning you can use whichever one you prefer or something else
Ofsted use EYO when judging practice