Špela Pirih, Kranjski vrtci, Čebelica

Modern technology became very important part of our lives. Despite that I noticed that working with children doesn’t include ICT, even more, kindergarten teachers are avoiding of its use. Meanwhile primary schools are successfully using information and communications technology for learning and working with children in classes. This is also shown through various examples of good practices, which are represented through various educational trainings. Kindergarten teachers are still actively using older methods that don’t include ICT. The reason for that is probably in lack of experiences and available resources. During the years I spent working in kindergarten, and in interaction with children, I noticed that their knowledge and skills of using ICT is increasing. And because I wanted to include this knowledge in to the process of working with children, I asked myself how could I carry out this on a level of pre-school children. I slowly started to include ICT resources in working with children and positive reactions were showing in the analysis of work and planning. Another advantage, that I noticed, is that various technological devices can also be an extremely powerful motivational tool. In my contribution I would like to present an example of kindergarten project My body. It was a project where I used different information and communications technology resources. Activities were planned together with children and they were conducted through different internet connections, computer games on the tablet, recording with camera and taking pictures with digital camera. I also introduced the topic in to the early hours of teaching English, where the use of ICT resources represents an additional help and better and more interesting understanding.