Pre-K Technology Applications TEKS- Laying the Foundation for Future Grades

Teachers must provide multiple opportunities pre-K students, as well as model the use of technology in their classrooms. At the end of the year, Pre-K students are able to follow basic oral or visual cues for operating programs, listen to and interacts with storybooks and information texts electronically. They are also able to move and double‐click the mouse appropriately. and can use the technical vocabulary to describe what they are doing with the computer. The are also able to use voice/sound recording and touch screen devices. They can insert and play CDs, create writing and draw, use audio, video and graphs to learn, using software. Finally, students are able to learn new information through the use of technology.
When Pre-K teachers follow the TA TEKS, their students are better able to move toward using technology for discovery of new information, for problem solving, and for asking and researching answers.