Why Early Connections? Early Connections provides a basic understanding of young children’s learning development, then connects technology to those essential learning skills. The primary focus is on how and when technology best fits into the learning of young children......
http://www.netc.org/earlyconnections/techconnections.html
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Assistive Technology for Young Children in Special Education: It Makes a Difference
Technology has opened many educational doors to children, particularly to children with disabilities. Alternative solutions from the world of technology are accommodating physical, sensory, or cognitive impairments in many ways.
Much of the technology we see daily was developed initially to assist persons with disabilities. Curb cuts at streetcorners and curb slopes, originally designed to accommodate people with orthopedic disabilities, are used more frequently by families with strollers or individuals with grocery carts than by persons with wheelchairs or walkers. The optical character reader, developed to assist individuals unable to read written text, has been adapted in the workplace to scan printed documents into computer-based editable material, saving enormous amounts of data entry labor.
http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-young-children-special-education
Dialogue on Early Childhood Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education
http://www.project2061.org/publications/earlychild/online/experience/clements.htm
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