Browsing by Author "Kuivila, Reetta"

The purpose of this Bachelor´s Thesis was to examine the amount of digital devices and the use of them on the finnish pre-primary education of Espoo. This thesis examined also was there any factor what prevents the use. The National Core Curriculum for Pre-School Education (2014) and the Espoo Pre-Primary Education Curriculum (2016) emphasize the information and communication technology competence. The previous studies show that the utilization of infor-mation and community technology in early childhood education is low. In addition, there is little qualitative research information of the pedagogical utilization of the information and comminty technology. This thesis was conducted by a quantative method. The data was collected by an online survey. The onley survey was built on the basis of previous studies and the objectives of the National Core Curriculum of Pre-School Education (2014). The target group of the research was selected pre-school teachers of Espoo Finnish early childhood ecucation, who have the windows devices on their pre-primary groups. The data was analyzed by a IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0 -statistical program. The thsesis found that the digital devices were versatile in the pre-school goups of the Espoo Finnish early childhood education. Half of the respondents used their digital devices pedagogically. In addition to the pre-school teacher, the other adults and children used the digital devices. The children´s use of the devices was supervised and controlled. Chilren used the tablets more regularly than the other devices. Pre-School teachers utilized the applications and digital learning enviroments to support expression skills and linguistic and mathematical skills. The biggest factor prevents the use of the devices was the failure of the devices.