Extending Early Education with Technology

In the two days prior to the 2007 World Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Chip Donohue and Selena Fox hosted the "EC eTeaching Symposium 2007: Extending Early Education with Technology". The Symposium brought together distance learning leaders from 13 countries to address the opportunities and challenges in supporting early childhood education with technology. A number of common themes have emerged during the eTeaching activities over the years:

• It starts with the children — As with all the work we do, the children are where we begin and guide all of our efforts.
• It’s not about the technology — Technology is simply another tool, another method, of delivering teacher education and professional development — it is not the only method.
• No one size fits all — While we can learn effective practices from other projects and programs, we need to determine what works best within our own context and define our own effective practices.
• Be intentional — Like the best teachers of young children, we need to know both what we want to do with technology and why — and make informed choices with specific goals for teachers and outcomes for children in mind.
• Link standards to outcomes — We need to be intentional about the connections between distance learning standards and guidelines and what we know to be best practice in early care and education.

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