Santrauka:
Darbe analizuojama išmaniųjų įrenginių taikymo galimybės ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigoje ugdant 3-5 metų amžiaus vaikų kūrybiškumą. Tyrimas parodė, jog tinkamas išmaniųjų įrenginių naudojimas ugdo 3-5 metų vaikų kūrybiškumą, leidžia jam skleistis bei lavėti, nes išmanieji įrenginiai motyvuoja, domina bei skatina vaikus kurti, tyrinėti bei ieškoti, o su pedagogo pagalba vaikai tampa ne tik ugdymo proceso dalyviais, bet ir kūrėjais.
Description:
Topicality/ novelty of the topic. Rapidly changing technologies, society, attitude towards a child, his/her education (self -) in pre-school education changes. Today children, their needs, experiences and opportunities are different. They live and grow in connection with smart technologies. According to V. Navickaitė (2016), “the main advantage of technology is that it is an interesting and motivating tool for a modern child to learn, improve and discover”. The Guidelines for the Development of Information Technology Development 2015-2020 emphasize that “the ability to use, create and comprehend ICT in this century has the same importance as the ability to read, write and compute in the past”.
Study problem: whether and how application of smart devices in pre-school education help to develop 3 - 5 years old children’s creativity?
Study Object: application possibilities of smart devices in pre-school education developing 3 - 5 years old children’s creativity.
Study Aim: to determine the possibilities of using smart devices in pre-school education for the development of 3 - 5 years old children’s creativity.
Study tasks:
1. To justify the use of smart devices in pre-school education for the creativity of children aged 3 to 5 years.
2. Evaluate the use of smart devices to develop the creativity of children aged 3 to 5 years.
3. To plan and realize educational project.
Study methods:
1. Analysis of documents and scientific literature to clarify the application of smart devices in pre-school education for the creativity of children aged 3 to 5 years.
2. Written survey (questionnaire) for educators, aiming to find out the application of smart devices in pre-school education in developing the creativity of 3 – 5 year old children.
Conclusions: the research revealed that proper use of smart devices develops the creativity of 3 to 5 years old children, allows to spread and develop creativity because smart devices motivate,
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inspire and encourage children to create, discover, search, and with the help of educators children become not only participants in the educational process but also creators.
Volume of the work: 3 parts: the first part describes theoretical aspects of application of smart devices in pre-school education for the development of 3 – 5 years old children’s creativity; the second part describes the analysis and results of the study; the third part describes educational project “Smart Group”.