Final Refelction

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.