Overall after reading the comments and feedback I got from
my group were really good I loved the way they all added little links down the
bottom to look at or read. I took my time to read or view each link and took it
all into consideration when I work with children at all time now not just with
technology.
Each one of the members within my group made valid points
and I feel that I have learned from each comment made, a few of the comments
that stood out to me were “following children’s interests and allowing to do
the process by themselves” this comment relates to the children using the computer,
after reading the comments made we still use the same process with the children
and the computers as they still enjoy using the computer by themselves, the
only thing is that we don’t allow the children to have the DVDs as these are
expensive and so we will support them. Another comment that relates to the
computers is “teaching children to be safe on computers” this relates to having
passwords and teaching children to be safe on the internet. This is always
important to have knowledge on even as an adult so we need to start teaching
children from a young age. A lot of the members from my group suggested using
YouTube with the children and I think this is a great idea, I have thought of
this before but it makes it hard when our computer in our room and doesn’t have
internet and we do have three computers in the noncontact room which has the
internet but these are busy and if not busy there is not a lot of room in there
for a few children. This could be something we look at as a team to work on
getting the internet on our computer. I thought the comment “ give specific
examples” was good as it made me think about how I could have added examples of
each experience but then I thought about how it was meant to be more of a blog
and not a learning stories so I didn’t want to have too much about the actually
experience, with technology. It was a
nice comment made about my philosophy and was nice to find out that some of the
others felt that same about allowing children to make their own decisions about
their own learning and being able to take control of what they want to learn or
do.
One of the comments made about using the radio with the
children were really good and I enjoyed reading how much this experience was
enjoyed and that they liked how I allowed the children to be able to explore
the radio and chose their own CDs. Some comments were made about bring CDs from
home; the children would bring CDs from home or their own culture that they
could dance to. As we have a wide range of cultures within our teaching team we
already have some from their culture but would be nice to have even more CDs.
I have really enjoyed this blog experience as it has been
great to read about other people’s experience with technology in their centres
as everyone has different opinions or see things in a different ways. It was
nice to get feedback from not only lectures about my work and nice to hear that
others have thought about what I have said and used it for their own work with
children.
