Teacher’s Attitudes towards Informational Technology (IT) Immersion in Singapore’s Childcare Classrooms

Abstract

Technology immersions are widely adopted in Singapore’s childcare centers. I n the last five years, as the flourishing of touch screens such as tablet computers, interactive whiteboards, smart phones, and smart TVs, up- to-date IT devices have become increasingly accessible by young children. In Singapore, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has highlighted the use of technology to support and enhance Early Childhood Education (ECE). Despite up- to-date IT devices’ effectiveness and popularity in ECE, to our knowledge, there has been a lack of researches on examining how childcare teacher s think. To address this timely issue, this study adopted a quantitative correlational research design to assess childcare teachers’ attitudes on integrating IT in ECE. The data are to be collected by adopting and modifying from the Computer Attitude Scale (CAS), developed by Selwyn (1997). The sample of this study is Singapore childcare teachers who volunteer to fill the questionnaires. The data will be analyzed by conducting descriptive statistics and inference statistics in order to determine the influen ce of age, working experience, total training hours received, educators’ qualifications, up-to-date technologies used at home, and teaching median (English/Mandarin) on teachers’ attitudes.