My Reflection

My reflection

My blog of technology was a learning experience for me.  It has opened my eyes to all the different technology activities that we have at the centre. Through the readings I was able to familiarise myself with technology items like the popcorn maker. I found this to be an exciting activity for the children. It was great to see some of the children jumping up and down chanting “popcorn look popcorn”!! This was also a learning experience for the teachers too as they had not seen a popcorn marker too.

The reflection I had with the balls in the trough was lovely to watch. It is amazing watching toddlers climbing into the trough not thinking about who they might be hurting in the process. In this particular situation one of the toddlers climbed on top of two other toddlers as he was trying to get into a trough filled with little plastic balls.

It was challenging trying to put pictures in also, in my first post I had placed a picture on the posts and it turned out to be too large and I could not take it off for a while.  I asked people if they could help me to delete the picture but no one could help to delete the picture. Luckily I had managed to delete the picture and I had placed a note on the blog to tell others that I had successfully deleted the picture.

Technology was interesting especially when we had the speaker Martin come into class and showed us his many robot inventions. The way that he had collected his robot equipment through other people’s scraps was extraordinary.

I enjoyed reading my fellow students blogs. It was beneficial sharing their experiences and being able to see what centres the children worked alongside with.

I was also thinking back to the last class we had before the holidays. When some of the students in the class discussed having group assignments for the blog.  I disagree with this and I think that working individually is a better way of learning as it offers us more challenge and rewards of how we blog and the reflections we experience in the centres. Receiving feedback from other people was rewarding and satisfying, it made me feel value in my work and I appreciated their response.  The help I received was great too and being able to benefit from other people’s help for example when someone was able to help me place pictures on the blog.  I felt reassured that the blog was a good thing to learn and I may use it in future endeavours.

Through the technology experiences with the children, I found that the children are quite technology aware.  The children were able to perform with most of the technology uses that we have in the centre.  I was unfortunate not to be able to use our computer we have for the children as one of the computers were broken and the other computer had a limited source of games.  Overall the experiences that the children had with technology were gratifying and we will continue to share more experiences.