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DA#37 – Create & Play Actionbound

Can physical tasks for an interactive quiz game be developed in kindergarten?

The concept of Actionbound literally augments the reality by enhancing real-life interaction whilst using smartphones and tablets. Children and teacher can create app-based DIY digital timelines of events with the use of GPS coordinates or pre-placed codes and tasks.

First children can try out Actionbound by playing a short testing version created by the teacher. To extend the game children use their own ideas for quizzes, challenges including photo, audio and video and tournaments. When the teacher finishes the design of the game parents can play the Actionbound at home with the children. 

After being familiar with Actionbound, a new outdoor treasure hunt can be created in the kindergarten. During an excursion the children and the educator can find interesting places and develop ideas for new physical tasks. When the creation process is done the game can be played by children and parents together with the Actionbound app.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik tested with Inklusives Luise-Kiesselbach-Haus Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30-40 minutes each)

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Be active and explore your surroundings.
  2. Develop your own ideas and be creative.
  3. Get to know a digital tool with which you can create your own quiz games.
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#physicalactivity #qrcode #images #sound #video #movement #environment

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DA#29 – The Photo Hunt

How to find one’s way in space using photos?

How can photos help us recognise our environment and find our bearings?  During this workshop, children discover different levels of the representation of a geographic place (satellite view, maps, photos), they identify landmarks and learn how to find their bearings. By creating a treasure hunt, they trace an understandable itinerary on a map. Several photos placed one after the other become a sequence of movements, thus introducing the notions of coding and sequencing.

An idea from

Aurélie Modave, teacher at the Sainte Julienne Haut school in Fléron – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

8 activities for a total of 5 hours, and 3 activities at home

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Recognise one’s environment and finding one’s bearings by observing photos.
  2. Discover the notions of image framing and point of view.
  3. Introduce to the concepts of coding and sequencing.
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#numeracy #photography #geolocation #environment #map #code #mediaeducation

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DA#23 – Audio Experimentation with Watermusic

Is it possible to make your own version of Händel’s water music with water sounds?

Audio puzzles and sound experimentations are suitable for children from the age of 3 and a lot of fun. First, children can search for random sounds in the environment and record them with a simple recording app. While listening, the children can guess together what they hear. At home, parents and children look for special water sounds, create and record them. In kindergarten, children can talk about their experiences with water sounds and listen to Händel’s original “water music”. Inspired by classical music, children can mix live water sounds in the kindergarten with the recording of the classical music. In the end they create their own version of Händel’s masterpiece.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik
tested with Inklusives Luise-Kiesselbach-Haus, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Get to know auditory design and expression possibilities.
  2. Implement own ideas in audio and music recordings (e.g., sound stories).
  3. Expand personal skills like auditory perception of the environment and auditory training.
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#language #storytelling #sound #environment #art

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DA#13 – Photo-Safari with Flowers

Is there a change of perspective to the world when you look at nature through a camera?

Taking photos with the tablet is very easy and children can use the device independently after a quick tutorial with the teacher. But children should not just snap pictures on a photo safari. They learn to take and select photos consciously. They can review photos, reflect on the content, and learn that beauty is seen subjectively. 

Young children who cannot read are able to distinguish different plants through photos and can use an app for plant identification together with adults. This way teachers, parents and children can spend time together in nature and learn about flora and fauna.

Nature has always been a great inspiration for artists. Through the close observation of flowers and plants, creativity is stimulated, and feelings can be expressed. To explore and learn more about famous paintings, children accompanied by adults can use children’s search engines on the Internet and have their first experience of safe image search.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik

tested with Integrationskindergarten Westendstrasse, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

4-6 years

Objective

  1. Learn to use photography as a design, expression, communication, and presentation medium.
  2. Express own perspectives on the world and certain topics using photography.
  3. Explore and express feelings. Be inspired by artists and create artwork yourself.
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#nature #photography #images #environment #colours #art

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DA#11 – Nature in the City

How to convey a sound and visual environment?

YES!

During this workshop, pupils explore the themes of sound and image. They are encouraged to observe their immediate environment: their school or home neighbourhood. Is this environment rather urban or natural? What elements are associated with the city? And with nature? What do they see? What do they hear? What does a sound say? How can sound and images complete one another? Walking through different places together, the children capture these environments in sounds and images using a camera and a Dictaphone. 

At the end of the workshop, the children make a “sound bingo” to be played with the family and other classes.

An idea from

Christine Gerards, Roton nursery school, Charleroi – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

Around 4 hours, 4 activities in school and 3 activities at home.

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Observe one’s environment, recognise sounds and sound effects and associate them with a photo/a corresponding image.
  2. Take, sort and choose photos for a specific goal.
  3. Identify sounds and record them.
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#nature #photography #sound #environment #mediaeducation