IT can provide opportunities for children to play with friends, imagine and create.
- Once-Upon-a-time. Stepping into someone else's shoes through role-play is taken a step further by taking photos of each other and the children reflecting on these, talking about who they were being and learning new vocabulary as part of their role-play.
- Sharing a talking photo album. Pressing a button to listen to what other children have said about their photos.
- Here Batman needs technology for his car to have superpowers! All kinds of things can happen when there are buttons to push, pipes to pull and phones to listen and talk through!
- 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.
- The children have taken many photographs. Here they look through the thumbnails and decide what they would like to print.
- Metal detectors are encouraging these children to problem solve together. One is using the detector to find buried treasure and the other helps out by digging.
- Here two children are working out an answer to a question together.
