Teaching culture-learning culture: Integrating technology into an early childhood curriculum on culture.
Presentation
Overview
Overview
Description
The Teaching Culture-Learning Culture project partners two teacher educators with early childhood classroom teachers to develop and implement a technology –rich curriculum to teach culture to elementary students.
The classroom teachers, in concert with a teacher education faculty member, set up correspondence with Peace Corps Volunteer Employees (PCVEs).. The PCVEs are from diverse parts of the globe and are participating in this project as part of the Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools correspondence matching initiative. (http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/).
A blog is used to facilitate communication among the teachers and teacher educators. Other technologies to be explored include digital storytelling, social bookmarking, and internet videoconferencing. Students will create artifacts such as digital stories using audio devices and Windows Movie Maker as well as communicate with their PCVE matches via digital technologies.
This presentation will share the details of this project from initial design to its current status and will seek to generate reflection on how a curriculum focused on culture can be enriched with technology.
