Creative purpose with technology

Nursery schools in Hafnarfjörður celebrate Nursery School Day
including a formal opening and the launch of a new website which contains
Videos and information about creative projects that nurseries in Hafnarfjörður have.
have been working on in recent terms. The aim of the page is particularly to
to highlight the creative use of tablets in school work.  

Hafnarfjörður Municipality
has made it its goal to tabletise all nurseries and primary schools
of the town in the coming years. Such an implementation takes time to prepare and carry out.
and the success of the implementation in each individual location depends considerably on the interest and
the skills of those managing the implementation. The use of tablets in school work has
got off to a good start in Hafnarfjörður's nurseries. Most of them have started to make use of
to use technology purposefully in their work and thereby enhance learning
of children by allowing them to try and experience things in the most varied way
Approaches and solutions are being developed that support positive learning.
of the children and play in line with the philosophy, aims and policies of the nurseries
of the municipality. The stated fields of learning for nursery schools according to the national curriculum are literacy and
communication, health and well-being, sustainability, science, creativity and culture.
On the new homepage, you can find examples of technical methods and approaches that can be used.
is being used to work on each area individually. The children are encouraged to do so.
to share their opinions and ideas, tell stories or experiences in a recording or
with photographs. They write and produce plays, and all of this calls for collaboration.,
conceptual work and the children expressing themselves and their thoughts.

A gem from the grandmother of a child at Álfabergi Nursery School:

,The grandchild
My 5-year-old came to me and asked where the tablet was. After a little while
I went to check on the lady, and by then she had got her tablet and found herself
a maths programme to see how she should write the numbers. She would be
to make a game and needed to know how to write the numbers on the paper.
Daman had got herself some paper, colours, scissors and the tablet and had started to
Write loads of numbers to create their game. It was so much fun to see and experience these.
a connection with her, that the tablet is not just a recreational device for playing
Although she can be a spectator at games, she can also be a helping hand and assist when we need her.
information”

Nursery School Day

It was considered
appropriate to use Nursery School Day to formally open this new and
to the joint information page of the nurseries in Hafnarfjörður and thus draw attention
on the technical and diverse methodology that is taking place in
school activities. The day is celebrated throughout
country and nurseries are on this day encouraged to draw special attention to
the important work that is taking place within the walls of the nurseries. It is
to discuss a landmark day in the history of Icelandic nursery education because on this day in 1950
Pioneering nursery teachers founded their first association. Congratulations on
Good day!