The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Early Childhood Education. Integrating Educational Software into Activity

Abstract

The importance of using ICT in education has been highlighted and emphasized in the international literature. The main impact of this is at the level of curriculum design and development. The study is based on the integration of information and communication technologies into current training methods, the essence of which is to rethink the way learning takes place and the roles of the two main educational actors: the teacher and the learner. In this new context, this study aims to provide a theoretical and structural perspective on ICT, as well as the role and weight of different components of the curriculum system in the design of learning programmes based on the integration of ICT in training and assessment activities. It is well known that for pre-school children, the element of novelty that emerges in all activities carried out in the instructional-educational process plays a very important role. The more this element is present, the better their attention and memory are stimulated, enabling them to concentrate better on the tasks at hand. It is now a fact that all children are attracted to computer games and all activities involving their use. In order to maximize the time spent in front of the computer for the benefit of children, and because we have educational software suitable for preschoolers, we have formulated the objectives and hypotheses of this work, based on the premise that the attention of children who use this educational package will have a progress of memory in both quantitative and qualitative analysis.