All Modules B6-Development Matters in the early years | Page 45

Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, and Creating and Thinking Critically support children’s learning across all areas

A Unique Child:

Birth - 11
months

Positive Relationships:

Enabling Environments:

observing what a child is learning

what adults could do

Understanding the world: Technology

7 Understanding the world: Approaches to Learning about Technology
what adults could provide

105.Is interested in how a camera works
106.Enjoys playing games with sound in tablets
107.Understands simple actions like changing pictures with
sliding finger
108.Looks for ways to turn on and off tools
109.Begins using tools to facilitate own process, like pulling a
blanket to rich something, or using a stick to reach
something.
110.Looks for help after trying persistently and not being able
to open, rich things
111.Uses a spoon to feed self

Technology is the use of tools to facilitate human process.
Its use starts very early in life and continues to develop
throughout life.
See Characteristics of Effective Learning - Playing and
Exploring and Creating and Thinking Critically
See Characteristics of Effective Learning - Playing and
Exploring and Creating and Thinking Critically

The beginnings of understanding technology lie in babies
exploring and making sense of objects and how they behave.
See Characteristics of Effective Learning - Playing and Exploring
and Creating and Thinking Critically
8-20 months
112. Uses a string to pull a car or a truck and uses it to carry
other toys
113. Explores through repetition of routines
114. Use trial and error to fit things, explore objects, understand
115. processes
116. Anticipates repeated sounds, sights and actions, e.g. when
an adult demonstrates an action toy several times.
16-26 months 117. • Shows interest in toys with buttons, flaps and
simple mechanisms and beginning to learn to
operate them.
118. Understands things have parts and looks for
missing parts
119. Understand objects function by using them like
trash can for placing trash
120. Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating
some ICT equipment.
121. • Operates mechanical toys, e.g. turns the knob on a
wind-up toy or pulls back on a friction car.
122.

• Comment on the ways in which young children investigate • Have available robust resources with knobs, flaps, keys
how to push, pull, lift or press parts of toys and domestic
or shutters.
equipment.
• Incorporate technology resources that children
• Talk about the effect of children’s actions, as they
recognize into their play, such as a camera.
investigate what things can do.

• Support children in exploring the control technology of
toys, e.g. toy electronic keyboard.
• Talk about ICT apparatus, what it does, what they can do
with it and how to use it safely.

• Provide safe equipment to play with, such as torches,
transistor