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Discover how early childhood education webinars inside the ICT in Education Teacher Academy go beyond video recordings. Members access on-demand expert sessions, real classroom examples, and downloadable lesson plans—all connected through a guided learning journey. Whether you’re ready to apply technology now or want to build your confidence first, these webinars support your growth every step of the way.
In early childhood education, building strong numeracy skills is about far more than counting or naming shapes — it’s about nurturing children’s ability to reason, solve problems, and see mathematics as relevant to their lives. When technology is integrated with purpose, it can make abstract concepts tangible, offer differentiated experiences to match a wide range of abilities, and link learning to real-world contexts. Our first ECE blog explores the why — from the importance of emergent numeracy to the advantages of using technology in teaching mathematics — and shows how a strong digital pedagogy helps educators plan meaningful, engaging activities. The second moves from theory to practice with 12 detailed, classroom-ready activities that combine problem-solving, reasoning, and numeracy learning with technology, while also showing how ICT in Education Teacher Academy members can extend them through lesson adaptations, 24/7 support from the Wisdom Tool, and community-driven ideas. Together, they create a solid foundation for integrating technology in early maths and set the stage for our upcoming primary education blogs, where we’ll explore how these same principles can transform technology use in older year levels.
Explore How to Integrate ICT in Lesson Plans with Confidence
Across a series of focused blog articles, educators are guided step-by-step through the process of integrating ICT meaningfully into lesson plans. One blog introduces how the ICT in Education Teacher Academy helps teachers learn how to integrate ICT in lesson plans through reflective planning, downloadable resources, and a clear professional growth path. A second blog follows the transformation of a teacher using the membership success path—from downloading their first lesson plan to creating and sharing their own. This current blog showcases real ICT-integrated lesson plan examples from Kindergarten to Year 4, highlighting how each activity supports curriculum goals and professional learning. Each article builds on the last, offering both practical strategies and inspiration for educators ready to save time and grow confidently with technology in teaching and learning.
High impact teaching strategies provide the research-based roadmap for effective practice, but the real challenge is knowing how to bring them to life with technology. That’s why I first introduced what these strategies are and why they matter, before showing you how they come alive inside the ICT in Education Teacher Academy through workshops, lesson plans, and the Success Path — your guided journey to learn, apply, and reflect. The final step is understanding ICT teaching strategies themselves, the engine that powers high impact teaching in your classroom. Together, these three parts show why the membership is the place to confidently integrate technology, grow your practice, and transform learning in early childhood and primary education.
Personalised learning with ICT empowers educators to respond to each child’s interests, abilities, and pace — from adapting hands-on digital activities in the early years to designing complex, curriculum-linked projects in primary school. In early childhood, it’s about capturing moments of curiosity and extending them through responsive, play-based technology use. In primary, it’s about giving students agency, using adaptive digital tools, and building higher-order skills like creativity and critical thinking. Across both stages, the ICT in Education Teacher Academy provides the planning templates, differentiated lesson plans, observation tools, and reflection prompts you need to make personalised learning an everyday reality.
In this article, we help you understand school ICT policies by taking a look at what constitutes as an ICT policy in Primary Schools.
When you are in lockdown, you most probably will be using technology more. So here are 8 ideas and strategies to use technology at home effectively today.
Creating a strong school vision statement is only the beginning—bringing it to life across classrooms is the real challenge. This blog provides educational leaders with a step-by-step guide to aligning their vision for technology integration with practical staff development using the ICT in Education Teacher Academy. Discover how the Membership Workbook helps track teacher growth, support lesson planning, and embed your vision into daily teaching practice—turning inspiration into measurable impact.
Assessment and reporting are two formative assessment strategies that closely linked and which primary school teachers effectively plan for the progression of learning with their children.
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