The Use Of ICT In Kindergarten Music Educational Activities

The information construction of early childhood education(ECE)is an indispensable part of vigorously developing ECE.?Outline of the national medium-and long-term plan for education reform and development(2010-2020)?states that to promote the kindergarten to achieve infrastructure,teaching resources,software tools,application ability and other information construction and application level of the comprehensive improvement.The use of information and communication technologies(ICT)will also optimize kindergarten educational activities.As one of the important activities in the kindergarten art area,music educational activities can promote the development of children's music quality and play an important role in their comprehensive development.In view on the use of ICT in music educational activities currently,four kindergartens'music activities in Wuhan as the research object in this study.The observation method,content analysis and case analysis method,were used to observe and record music educational activities by video in four kindergartens.And data statistics were conducted on these videos according to different dimensions,in order to explore the advantages and existing problems of the use of ICT in kindergarten music educational activities.Then,to provide research experience and feasible suggestions for ECE researchers and early childhood(EC)teachers.The results show that,the advantages of the use of ICT in kindergarten music educational activities are reflected in three aspects:optimizing teaching effect,improving children's subject status and promoting the improvement of EC teachers'information literacy.And,the use of ICT in kindergarten music educational activities is also insufficient,which is reflected in four aspects:firstly,high-quality music teaching resources are scarce;secondly,children's feelings and experience of music are not enough;thirdly,the use of ICT in kindergarten music teaching activities is single;finally,the overall information literacy and music literacy of'EC teachers need to be improved.At last,some suggestions are put forward.Firstly,from the perspective of ICT,integrate various high-quality resources and accelerate the construction of resource-sharing platform.Secondly,from the perspective of children,it emphasizes children's feelings and experience of music and their subject status.Finally,from the perspective of EC teachers,the effectiveness of information literacy and music literacy training should be strengthened.