The Significance of Monitoring Children’s ICT work The establishment of a starting point for a child’s learning in ICT capability must begin by the monitoring and observation of their current capabilities in ICT. Both of these teaching techniques are closely linked to the effective assessment of ICT capability, so it is easy to discuss them in this context. However, monitoring is also instrumental in the development of child ICT capability as it allows you to stimulate learning at the important moments. Research has found that if you monitor their capabilities you will be able to determine the best moments to intervene and this has been proven to have had beneficial effects on their ICT techniques and routines. In particularly, if you do use this practice in the learning environment then it would be most likely that you will have helped developed their higher order skills. In the early childhood learning setting, Price (2009) outlines four reasons for this to occur: 1. To bridge the gap between those who have most and the least skills; 2. To recognise what children already know about ICT and how to provide support and encouragement to them; 3. To ensure that you are engaging girls as well as boys in all cultures and; 4. To consider dialogue with parents and professionals in terms of a child’s ICT capability.
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