Technology in Kindergarten

Technology has become so embedded in our daily lives that it is easy to be oblivious to the ways we use it. When I began to pay attention to the use of technology in the kindergarten classroom I was amazed at how often it is used. The following list includes the ways we use technology in my kindergarten classroom: books on tape, VCR, TV, document camera, computers, digital camera, and a printer.

The books on tape are used daily in center activities. The document camera is used daily for sharing at lunch time and also when a few students share journals. I used the TV and VCR during snack time to show a video about spiders during my scince unit. Of course the digital camera is always used to take adorable photos of our cute kinders. Finally, we have 2 student computers and 1 teacher computer in our classroom currently. However, on Thursday our school rolled out brand new laptops for each teacher. These new laptops are set up for use by the teacher and the student. They will be hooked up to the document camera for showing video clips, creating graphs, flashing sight words, or whatever else one can think of.