1. Beautifully Balanced: Integrating Technology into Kindergarten by: Kimberly Floyd

2. Introduction Pencils or iPads? Cameras or crayons? Laptops or Legos?

3. Timid teachers Savvy students Apprehensive parents School sources The Problems

4. What should we really be doing?

5. Ages 4.7 to 6 years Social and academic skills Non english speakers Teacher student ratio Shorter school day Ready or Not, Here Tech Comes

6. Friedrich Froebel: hands on, explore interests John Dewy: everyday activities and peer interactions Maria Montessori: five senses for learning and movement Lev Vygotsky: developmental stages require time and growth Jean Piaget: independent thinkers who learn from mistakes Foundations of Early Childhood

7. “In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.” --Lev Vygotsky “...technology skills come as the result of play”--Warren Buckleiner

8. Project based technology Computers Digital cameras iPads

9. Parents in Position email web-based software sites web-based media

10. Opening Doors for Teachers Surveys Teacher time PBL lessons Show and share Graph correlations

11. 21st Century Kindergarten Conflict or Compliment? Can cameras replace crayons? Can iPads innovate writing? Can computers create community? Can PBL feel like play?

12. “Tomorrow belongs to the people, who prepare for it today.” -African proverb