The Play Theory and Computer Games Using in Early Childhood Education

1. Motivation

In 2011 International Center for the Childhood and education of Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University started the project “Childhood without borders”. One of the objectives of the project was to support innovative practices in preschool education. The project had a number of subprojects which were oriented to different areas of children’s development. One of subproject realized cooperatively with Volgograd State Technical University was dedicated to using Information and Communication technologies in kindergarten. Main participants were teachers from municipal kindergartens. Totally 10 kindergartens were involved in the project. The essence of this subproject was in complex analysis of using computer games in kindergarten for improvement of children’s development. The area of problems we investigated was the competent scaffolding of children’s play activity as the necessary tool for their learning and development.