Supporting High-quality Early Childhood Education Services throught ICTs

Abstract

Nowadays early childhood schools are places where kids are not only taken care of but also where carefully planned educational activities (based on pedagogical frameworks) are carried out. In such centers, practitioners observe, analyze and assess children’s progress on a daily basis. Using this data, they plan new stimulating activities for the kids taken into account their personal traits and competence level. This paper presents an ICT-based system that allows parents and practitioners collaborate and share their responsibility as children’s educators both in classroom and home settings. Using a TV set as main access device, the parents can watch interactive training videos from the commodity of their living room, track child’s progress, access to child’s portfolio, receive recommendations of educational activities or add their own observations among other services. In such a way the system seeks to strengthen the home-school link, to enhance the overall quality in early childhood services and to create an educational community committed to the well-being and education of children.