APST: 5

This ECA Learning Hub series by Karen Turner allows the learner to analyse the role of emerging technologies and their effects on the nature of learning in early childhood. Participants explore the use of digital documentation to interact and communicate effectively with young children and families, with the main aims of building and strengthening relationships and supporting learning.

Rod Soper presents this inspiring rediscovery of the Planning Cycle and challenges us to consider how we can use the Planning Cycle to reinvigorate not only our thinking, but how we approach children’s learning and development.

This module explains how critical reflection forms a crucial part of professional practice in early childhood education and care, and provides a model and suggestions for how to make critical reflection a positive part of everyday practice.

This module has been developed to provide an understanding of how documenting and assessing children’s learning helps educators gain a deeper understanding of children’s interests, strengths and abilities, and how educators use this knowledge to support and extend children’s learning.