AMS Learning Live: How do you teach media and digital literacy in Montessori preschools?

1.5 CPDs, Run Time 54:12

A team of Montessori teachers, trainers, and researchers in Bulgaria developed a new approach to teaching and learning media and digital literacy in Montessori preschools. Following the principles of an action research project, the team developed and assessed the usage of multi-sensory Montessori materials that teach six media and digital literacy aspects - information literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety, problem-solving (Tsourapas & Thompson, n.d.), and critical thinking. Furthermore, the research team aimed to use as few technological aids as possible.

Desislava Stoeva is a Montessori trainer and Assistant professor at the pedagogical faculty at Sofia University. In 2008, she established the first Montessori school in Bulgaria. She is currently completing her PhD where she engaged in action research which incorporated hands on materials to introduce Digital literacy in Early Childhood Montessori classrooms.