help on unit 323 ICT
 

yikes stuck on an assessment that i have been set on

I have to list or do a chart showing how ICT can be used to support different ages, needs and genders etc...

can anyone help before my head explodes. :bawling:

boo hoo.... my head seriously hurts, I have started but really dont think Im on the right track, what do you reckon?

How ICT can be used to support different ages, needs genders and covering different abilities.

Children have a wide range of ICT abilities. Most children have access to some sort of ICT equipment either at home or another location such as a library.
You can group children into age category, also taking into their needs and abilities, for children to use ICT, such as computer games. Older children can have the simple games such as Thomas and Peppa pig games, with numeracy or letter and word recognition for children to match; younger children probably will need adult support.

Children under 18 months

• Simple teddies with buttons to push with flashing lights and songs or Play Gyms, young babies love lying under a play gym with flashing lights to watch.
• These can help eye and hand co-ordination as will encourage babies to reach out.

18 months – 3 years

• Simple 4 or 6 buttoned laptop with shapes, colours and numbers, shape sorter with lights and sounds, telephone with shapes and sounds – Problem solving and number reasoning.
• Small world toys with sounds such as a farm. – to encourage social skills, imagination role-play and knowledge and understanding of the world.
• Mats with sounds such as funky feet, where children step onto foot prints and different noise sounds, like counting and melodies. – for children to learn to recite numbers and to recognise numbers
• Toy tills – to encourage social skills, number recognition

3 – 4 years

• ICT toys such as a bus with the alphabet, home corner toys such as a cooker , microwave, washing machine, torches etc. – to help develop childrens social skills, knowledge and understanding of the world, number recognitions etc.
• Robot toys, where you have to program which way the robot moves. – social skills, children enjoy finding out how things work, so programming a simple Robot and seeing it move around will delight childen.




3 and half – 5

• Digital cameras – to promote independence in children's use of ICT
• Laptops/computers with age and ability needs appropriate games set-up – hand, eye co-ordination, number solving, letter and word recognition, shape recognition, colour recognition
• Home corner toys

HI
At our playgroup we have a touch screen computer and the children from 2 years and up can use it. They need help to open programmes but can play the games such as gophers (pop up teddies and they have to hit them with their fingers) (bursting bubbles etc)
don't know whether this will help.
We also have a toy called a bee-bot with a mat so that you programme the toy to go around the mat by pressing the correct arrows (forward, backwards and right side and left side ,

Thank you very much :-) x