Building Digital Fluency in Early Childhood

Pana is the PreK-1 Technology and Design Coach at Taipei American School. Prior to this, she taught in early childhood classrooms for seven years. She has studied, lived, and worked on three continents in eight different cities. Pana shares insights into her teaching process on her blog, mspanasays.com. With the goal of connecting early childhood educators and classrooms, she founded the educational Twitter hashtag chat, #IntEarlyEd (International Early Educators), and the Traveling Teddy Project (travelingteddybear.com #GlobalEdTed). Pana is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the winner of ISTE's 2018 Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for excellence in technology-based PK-2 education. Pana holds a B.A. in Psychology, and an M.A. in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2018 she completed a second Masters in Computing in Education, also from Teachers College.