Sunday, 11 February 2024

The application of digital media in early childhood education

 


The global process of informationization and networking has changed people's way of life, the use of digital technology to better mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of young children's learning has been in the inevitable need for the development of the times, representing the trend and direction of the development of early childhood education.



  First, digital technology to optimize the teaching process

  The application of digital technology teaching in kindergarten is a new mode of teaching, it can play a great role in optimizing the process of education, improving the quality of teaching, consolidating the effect of teaching, and so on.

  (A) is conducive to mobilizing young children's multi-sensory participation: the organic combination of sound, graphics, animation, digital film, in line with the age of young children, fully mobilizing their multi-sensory, involved in learning.

  (B) is conducive to stimulating young children's innovative thinking and spirit of experimentation: combined with the concept of modern education and the development of young children's cognitive laws of the development of multimedia courseware, it greatly triggered the desire of young children to learn, inspired them to actively participate, free play, and continuous innovation.

  (C) is conducive to improving the wholeness, interactivity, flexibility, and fun of teaching: to overcome the rigid "full of irrigation" education method in other teaching means, multimedia teaching will be a complete combination of knowledge, children in the teacher's guidance, operation, learning, mastering knowledge in the play.

  (D) is conducive to young children's understanding and mastery of the content of the teaching: due to multi-sensory participation, greatly mobilized young children's ability to learn on their own, especially usually inattentive, mischievous children, can quickly understand and master the content of the teaching.

  (E) is conducive to the visualization of abstract things, to solve the problem of other media can not be solved: the abstract knowledge, made into multimedia courseware visualization, anthropomorphism, children, through a story step-by-step explanation, demonstration, young children will soon be able to understand.



  Second, the positive role of digital media technology

  (A) Inspire teachers to keep learning, enterprising and innovating

  Teachers should first update the concept of education, starting from learning the basics of computer to learning PHOTOSHOP, FLASH, POWERPOINT, AUTHORWARE and other production software, through the study, courseware development, competitions and other activities, effectively stimulate the teacher's desire to learn, improve the overall quality of the business, in order to improve the level of teaching and quality of education to lay a good foundation.

  (B) Digital media technology makes the means of early childhood education rich and colorful

  The online world is colorful, interesting animated stories, wonderful teaching programs, and the latest educational concepts, especially the use of colorful, beautiful animation, and vivid sound effects produced by the multimedia courseware, in a dynamic scenario to achieve teacher-student interaction, so that the teaching of a more vivid image, concrete and intuitive.

  

1 comment:

  1. I agree that teachers should be encouraged to learn about digital media more and to update their teaching methods in order to stay up to date and give informative media education to the children :)

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