Analyzing Multimodal Media Applications for Early Childhood Education

This report investigates the effectiveness of multimodal media in early childhood education and care, emphasizing the integration of various communication modes like visual and auditory to enhance learning. It identifies and critiques two applications, 'What to Expect' and 'KidCoach,' assessing their content, context, and learning outcomes for children aged birth to five years. The analysis considers developmental milestones across social-emotional, cognitive, linguistic, and physical domains, highlighting the importance of parental involvement and interactive learning experiences. The report concludes that multimodal approaches, supported by well-designed applications, can significantly foster children's cognitive growth, communication skills, and overall development in their early years. Desklib provides access to this and similar assignments to aid students in their learning journey.

Multimodal Media in
early childhood
education and care

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Determine research and select two applications suitable for children birth years old.................1
Review the two applications addressing the content, context and marketed learning outcomes
in scrutiny of suitableness as a tool for learning with children birth to 5 years old....................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The term multimodality indicates to the aggregation of varied modes of communication
and representation, employed in a variety of aesthetic and structural and functional contexts in
the synchronous media culture. This very learning suggests that when a number if senses, for
instance visual, audible, proprioception are being encouraged and entailed during the learning of
the early childhood to foster their growth and development. This approach lets the children
interpret the provided informations and remember them efficiently for their future betterment.
With the combination of these learning modes, children experiences more of learning skills and
acquire knowledge in a varied ways to frame a diverse learning style (Dayal & Tiko, 2020) This
report will entail the researches and suitable application which aids the early childhood learning.
In addition, this report will also encompass the critique of applications addressing the very
content, their context and associated procured learning results in determination of suitability as a
tool of early childhood learning with the age group from birth to 5 years of age (Douglass, 2019).
Determine research and select two applications suitable for children birth years old
Kids eventually learn more when they are enjoying themselves and over the past years
the early childhood learning has advanced and aided the education setting to track the
developmental milestones in children's efficient learning outcomes. For instances the learning
has become more productive with the aid of plays entailing child's interest and their
developmental norms. Thus, there are plenty of applications in this contemporary world to assist
the child with the purpose of healthy and effective early childhood learning settings. This has
narrowed up the children very development. The applications includes the under mentioned:
 What to Expect
This application essentially addresses and informs about what is going on in the children
head that is from week to week by describing all the amazing and exciting developmental
alterations they go through their developmental stages that is their first 18 months from the very
birth. It is must application for each new parent (Edwards and et. al., 2020). This application
majorly provides the opportunities to impact the child's mental development and they tend to
learn more about the magical leaps happening around them. This assists parents I loop with the
child's mental development and their understanding of the infant going through which can
efficiently make them fall in some challenging behaviours. This application consists an easy to
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follow calender of advices and suggestions on how to handle the leap in early childhood care and
their education.
 KidCoach
KidCoach application is the child development application that is efficacious in early
childhood education and their care. This application majorly assists kids to acquire fresh and
skills. In addition, this also aids the kids to express their thoughts and ideologies and how they
interpret their cognitive understanding (Friedman, 2018). The application aids the parents to
stimulate their child's thinking skills and build up communication skills. Here parents can
effectively select from quick, fun and thought stimulating questions from the provided app for
their children to aid their learning efficiently and foster their early childhood education and care.
After which the parents are require to put on questions on their child to start a meaningful
conversation in just 5 minutes so that they are still interactive to their gained learning. The
parents can utilise the prompts to aid the child's learning involvement more deeper.
Review the two applications addressing the content, context and marketed learning outcomes in
scrutiny of suitableness as a tool for learning with children birth to 5 years old
From the moment a baby enter the world , they are ready to learn and acquire the
effectiveness and potencies of their early childhood learnings. In addition, the child is then in a
most crucial time periods in a child's developmental stages and other associated learning phases
from birth to 5 years of age (Palaiologou, & Gray, 2019). There are certain developmental
milestones that is set of skills or age pertained tasks which most children accomplish by certain
age. This milestones id categorised into four and they are social and emotional development,
cognitive understanding, speech and language developments and the last one carries the physical
developments. The two applications assisting in determination of the suitability as a tool and aid
for early childhood learning with children of birth to 5 years of age group entails the “What to
Expect” and “KidCoach”. These applications majorly aids in the fostering and setting up the
shared expectations of the between the parents and the child. This entails the child to know and
learn about the happenings around the world and make a sense of the world around them, as well
as to utilise and evolve their very imagination towards the activities and happenings that they see
and the associated creativity within world which amuses them and brings out their curiosity to
learn and express more of their expression to convey their message and point of views (Slot,
2018). Te learning outcomes entails the kids interaction and communication with the people they
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are surrounded with. The early childhood education and care comprises the very informative
learning part and phase of the child's life where the are vulnerable and seeks help by their parents
to pertain the curiosity and expression of enjoyment that is entailed within the learning sessions
(Ulferts and et. al., 2019). The children tend to develop senses and implement their actions in
the context of their curiosity to learn the happenings that is taking place around them. They use
their cognitive interpretation to communicate with the people they are surrounded with and the
other applications majorly entails their cognitive growth and development. Children are
sometimes chaotic and likewise requires the developmental effective measures to foster the
early childhood education and the care (Undheim, 2020).
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CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is being conferred that the multimodal media is the very
effective approach in the early childhood education and their care. This learning entails the
number of child's senses such as visual, audible are being majorly encouraged in the learning and
the childcare. Kids are very efficient since birth in learning and they are ready to acquire any sort
of learning that enhances their development and growth. Parents plays an effective role of giving
their kids effective early childhood learning with care and enjoyable learning sessions. Then
there are effective learning and childcare and development application which fosters their growth
and stimulates their abilities of interpretation and communication.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
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early childhood education and care teachers’ experiences surrounding education during
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Douglass, A. L. (2019). Leadership for quality early childhood education and care.
Edwards, S., Mantilla, A., Grieshaber, S., Nuttall, J., & Wood, E. (2020). Converged play
characteristics for early childhood education: multi-modal, global-local, and traditional-
digital. Oxford Review of Education, 46(5), 637-660.
Friedman, A. (2018). To “read” and “write” pictures in early childhood: multimodal visual
literacy through Israeli children’s digital photography. Journal of children and
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Palaiologou, I., & Gray, C. (2019). Early Learning in the digital age. Early Learning in the
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Slot, P. (2018). Structural characteristics and process quality in early childhood education and
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Ulferts, H., Wolf, K. M., & Anders, Y. (2019). Impact of process quality in early childhood
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Undheim, M. (2020). “We Need Sound Too!” Children and Teachers Creating Multimodal
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