IT enables children to play at roles they see in the adult world.
- Add technology to role-play indoors and out to reflect real environments.
- Make role-play boxes and add ICT elements such as timers, defunct cameras and mobile phones, torches etc.
- Using phones in role-play reflects real world environments and encourages speaking.
- Technology does not have to work to support children's play and learning. Defunct technology, toys and even cardboard boxes transformed into television sets can support children's understanding and extend their thinking.
- Cameras do not always have to be real. Sometimes they add to role-play scenarios and lead to or support a child's play at something they have seen in the world around them.
- Voice changers encourage the children to sing songs and rhymes that they know.
- Children will quickly incorporate defunct technology into role-play. An old phone encourages a child to speak in ways she has heard around her.
- At the Doctors - Laptops and software adds to a role-play scenario. Here a 'doctor' can sign in his patient, find out what is wrong with him and give him treatments.
- Using phones in role-play reflects real world environments and encourages speaking.
