Show interest in toys and resources that incorporate technology.
Which toys and resources interest babies.
Talk about the features of items that interest them such as a toy rabbit's floppy ears or a bear with a rumbling tummy.
Provide a range of playthings that excite babies' attention, including battery-operated mobiles and wind-up radios.
8-20 Months
Explore things with interest and sometimes press parts or lift flaps to achieve effects such as sounds, movements or new images.
How babies begin to explore technology in toys and personal items, for example, pressing a button or lifting the spout on a drinking cup.
Share observations with parents so that you can compare notes.
Have available robust resources with knobs, flaps, keys or shutters.
16-26 Months
Show interest in toys with buttons and flaps and simple mechanisms and begin to learn to operate them.
The ways in which young children investigate how to push, pull, lift or press parts of toys and domestic equipment.
Talk about the effect of children's actions, as they investigate what things can do.
Incorporate technology resources that children recognise into their play, such as a camera.
22-36 Months
Show an interest in ICT.
Seek to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment.
How children use the control technology of toys, for example, a toy electronic keyboard.
Talk about ICT apparatus, what it does, what they can do with it and how to use it safely.
Let children use the photocopier to copy their own pictures.
Provide safe equipment to play with, such as torches, transistor radios or karaoke machines.
30-50 Months
Know how to operate simple equipment.
The skills children develop as they become familiar with simple equipment, such as twisting or turning a knob.
Taking photographs - In a nursery school, a child explores using a digital camera, and a practitioner supports her in viewing and assessing the photos. [transcript]
You can watch the video via modem or slow / fast / superfast broadband connections. If you are behind a network firewall, why not click here to view a flash file of the video. You do need to have the flash plugin.
Draw young children's attention to pieces of ICT apparatus they see or that they use with adult supervision.
When out in the locality, ask children to help to press the button at the pelican crossing, or speak into an intercom to tell somebody you have come back to the setting.
40-60+ Months
Complete a simple program on a computer.
Use ICT to perform simple functions, such as selecting a channel on the TV remote control.
Use a mouse and keyboard to interact with age-appropriate computer software.
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support their learning.
Finding a website - In a nursery class, the practitioner supports a child using the computer to find a particular website. [transcript]
You can watch the video, via modem or slow / fast / superfast broadband connections. If you are behind a network firewall, why not click here to view a flash file of the video. You do need to have the flash plugin.
How children coordinate actions to use technology, for example, to direct dial a telephone number.
Teach and encourage children to click on different icons to cause things to happen in a computer program.
Ensure safe use of all ICT apparatus and make appropriate risk assessments for their use.
Provide a range of programmable toys, as well as equipment involving ICT, such as computers.
