DIGITAL LIBRARY
STUDYING THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT LEARNING AND EVALUATION PROCESSES
Comenius University, Faculty of Education (SLOVAKIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN14 Proceedings
Publication year: 2014
Pages: 1381-1395
ISBN: 978-84-617-0557-3
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 7-9 July, 2014
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of digital technologies to achieve learning goals by children themselves and evaluating the quality of competencies and autonomy of children using digital technologies. Children to learn, obtain new experiences and gain knowledge every day. The growing presence of digital technology in their lives presents new challenges and opportunities. Since we can’t avoid exposure to digital technologies in a child’s daily life, we need to embrace the huge potential of digital technologies to enhance learning and teaching methods and ultimately benefit a child’s comprehensive development. The term digital technologies in the context of learning is understood a resources, tools, and processes that are used for teaching and learning, communication, collaboration, presentation, production, etc. and for the comprehensive development of the child in the learning process. Object of our research was conducted in natural didactic context using digital technologies. Researchers used a diagnosis based on the evidence. The object of our research is action of children. The subject of our research are children of early childhood.

Research objectives - this study has three components:
A: Use of digital technologies to achieve learning goals by children themselves.
B: Create a comprehensive research record based on the context in which children used digital technologies.
C: Evaluating the quality of competencies and autonomy of children using digital technologies.
Keywords:
Digital technologies, didactic context, qualitative methodology, teacher as a researcher, learning and teaching process, child’s autonomy, child’s competencies.