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10 pages tagged with pre-school
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Dream Catcher
Dream Catcher aims to capture young children’s dreams by recording their creative play, opening up powerful channels of shared communication and learning with parents, other children, and early years professionals.
Type: Project
Tagged with: digital media, family learning, informal learning, pre-school, primary -
Early Years
Futurelab supports, in partnership with the ESRC and the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham, two studentships in the area of early years learning and digital technologies.
Type: Project
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Storybooks, puzzles and laptops: how do children learn?
Digital technologies are all around us. But how do parents set about introducing them to their children? And how do children react to these technologies? Sarah Eagle has been researching these questions for her PhD, and talked to Kim Thomas about her find
Type: Web Article
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Dream Catcher
Dream Catcher is a magic PSP that can capture young children's dreams by recording their creative play and imaginary worlds. This prototype project was submitted to Futurelab's call for informal learning ideas in 2008.
Type: Video
Tagged with: pre-school, primary -
Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
This publication brings together early work from Futurelab's PhD studentship network, which was set up to collaboratively explore questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning.
Type: Opening Education Report
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My-E
My-E (My Education) aims to help young learners develop meaningful conversations that are supported in both the home and school, providing the basis for a more personalised learning journey.
Type: Project
Tagged with: creativity, family learning, informal learning, personalisation, pre-school, primary, social software -
Tots, toddlers and technology: can ICT help the under-5s?
Can ICT really help children in the pre-school environment? It's so often a given that computers are 'good' and 'educational' that it's sometimes worth standing back to challenge this assumption.
Type: VISION Article
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Innovations Workshops
The Futurelab Innovations Workshops bring together experts from research, design and practice to investigate how new technologies can impact upon learning in 5, 10 and 15 years' time.
Type: Project
Tagged with: creativity, futures, health, innovative teaching, mobile/handheld, pre-school -
Skybluepink Interactive Box
The Skybluepink Interactive Box teaches French to 4-5 year-olds through play. Children interact with the magic box and its animated characters, using cards embedded with radio-frequency ID tags to teach basic colours and shapes.
Type: Project
Tagged with: pre-school, primary -
Digital Childhoods: The future of learning for the under-10s
Bringing together creative, technical and educational experts, the event explored how children's interaction with technology can provide useful insights when developing learning resources for those aged 0 to 10.
Type: Event
Tagged with: pre-school