Signature Pedagogies with Technologies in the Early Years

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Derek P. RobertsonEducation Scotland@derekrobertson

Let’s play guess the…

DJ Quack

Burnie

Hansel

How well do we know the digital

worlds that young learners inhabit?

Technologies should raise the

bar of expectation and aspiration of

learners…

Search for your desired technology…

….all of it!

Is this practice becoming what one may refer to as a Signature Pedagogy? (Shulman 2005)

“..form habits of the mind, habits of the heart and habits of the hand.”

Listen to the detail and the consideration of audience that is in this tutorial

Children situated in culturally relevant contexts that invites them into the learning

Integration of a range of contemporary technologies to extend and enhance learning

The chance to take the learning to place they determined