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Overview

This topic explores a multimodal approach to children’s creativity in early childhood. Learning concentrates on developing pre‐service teachers’ ability to plan for and create multimodal opportunities for young children to communicate their knowledge and understanding as they make meaning of their world. From birth children use a range of ways … For more content click the Read More button below.

Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Examine the many ways in which children creatively communicate their thinking through multimodal approaches
  • Explore techniques and approaches to documenting children’s learning including the use of creative digital tools
  • Plan opportunities for children to express themselves by designing and creating age‐appropriate, multimodal opportunities using a range of resources

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Assess how children can combine two or more modes to represent their thinking and communicate their ideas, considering a diverse range of learners and culturally sensitive modes of communication
2.
Explore how every day, digital tools can be used to enhance children’s play and learning and to document and communicate their understanding
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Evaluate the ability to construct meaning using multiple modes of communication including images, text, speech, and digital modes to represent learning across disciplines
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Examine how educators can support and encourage children’s multimodal creative expression
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Recognise and articulate the effect communicating in a range of modes has on children’s literacy and numeracy learning
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Discuss how to support children’s ability to choose forms of symbolic representation that will best afford expression of the meaning they wish to communicate

Requisites information

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