Describe the experience:
Digital multimedia education provides opportunity for the children to develop new learning opportunities (The University of Sydney, 2016).
ICT experience - ‘How the Birds got their songs and colours’ video allows children to enhance their positive thinking of indigenous culture and perspectives (ACARA, 2014).
Visual arts to explore indigenous perspectives
Making posters to explore indigenous identities
Role play to experience Indigenous life style
6- 7years of age
Describe exactly what you will do with this experience:
The Animation video of ‘How the Birds got their songs and colours’ allows children to acquire cultural values, …show more content…
E.g. children explore and express how the earth, birds and other things got coloured through painting (printout sheets that depicts sky, tree, bird, landscape and mountain), also through making posters and dramatic play. According to Vygotsky’s (1962) Social constructivism theory, visual art work helps children to discover new ideas to express their socio-cultural observation and imagination (Sydney Tafe, 2010). Also, according to Albert Bandura’s (1925) social learning theory the above teaching strategies allow children to consider observable behaviours that allows them to play different roles (For example, crow, dove, parrots and other characters from the story) through imitating their peers and educators (The State of NSW, Department of Education and Training, 2010). This experience allows children to learn and “explore the diversity of culture, heritage, background and tradition and that diversity presents opportunities for choices and new understandings” as recognized by the Early Years Learning Framework [EYLF] (DEEWR, 2009,