The pre-K Technology applications TEKS (1999, 2008) provides guidelines on what 3- and 4-year olds are expected to be able to do with technology applications, in order for teachers to prepare them for success in the new global economy.
It uses five domains, based on observed and researched child behaviors and interactions for that age group (social and emotional development, language and communication, emergent literacy: reading and writing, and math), to provide teachers with strategies on how to help this group of students to use technology effectively.
The TEA guidelines for technology is a dynamic, spiraling curriculum that starts to lay the foundation in pre-K, and is progressively built up in successive grades; and provides many opportunities in subsequent grades for looping back and re-teaching various concepts from lower grades in the higher grades.
This way, students are able to be well-versed in technology applications by using all updated and/or upgraded versions of software, applications, or other resources, to keep them current and globally competitive. This repetition due to spiraling also helps students to master the knowledge and skills gained as they do them many times in the different grades.
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