An Action Research On The Thematic Activities Of Young Children's Life Education In Information Technology Environment

With the in-depth development of educational informatization in our country,there are already audio-visual education centers set up in kindergartens to provide kindergarten teachers with high-quality courseware and other teaching resources.It is advocated that teachers use information technology to assist the daily teaching of kindergartens.Preschool education informatization has become a trend.Life is the most precious wealth of human beings.To ensure the safety of children's life naturally becomes the primary goal of kindergarten work.In addition to daily safety protection,kindergartens also need to pay attention to appropriate life education for children to promote the healthy development of their body and mind.For children in the stage of concrete image thinking,the abstract concept of perceptual life seems to be inadequate.The vivid and colorful multimedia resources are in line with children's cognitive characteristics and can arouse children's interest in learning.This feature of information technology just solves the problem of lacking teaching materials and single teaching form in kindergarten life education,and then improves the quality of life education.This study use action research design to implement a life education course in Senior Kindergarten class in S kindergarten,Zhengzhou City,Henan Province.This research plans to carry out information-based life education theme teaching to arouse children's interest in learning in various teaching forms and improve the quality of children's life education.First of all,this study uses the survey method to investigate and analyze the current situation of life education of kindergarten teachers and their life attitude.It is found that on the one hand,most preschool teachers have not organized life education and teaching,and some teachers have encountered difficulties in life education and teaching.On the other hand,the level of children's life cognition is low,and kindergarten needs to improve the current life education and teaching methods to improve the effectiveness of life education.Secondly,under the guidance of life education theory,children's cognitivedevelopment stage theory,Eriksson's psychosocial development theory and immersion theory,and in accordance with the goal requirements and education suggestions of life education in the kindergarten education guiding outline and 3-6-year-old children's learning and development guide,this study integrates information technology with children's life education,and designs theme activities of life education for large class children.Then,this study uses interactive electronic whiteboard to integrate digital education resources into young children's classroom learning,especially during the new knowledge teaching and gaming activities,enriching the classroom teaching form and optimizing the teaching design.After three iterations of implementation,the changes of children's learning interest and life attitude were compared through observation,works analysis and interviews.The results indicate that the use of information technology enhances young children's learning interest,the life education activities that supported by IT have improved their attitude towards life.This study thus proves the effectiveness of life education for children using IT-based learning environment.