Final reflection 

Technology is here to stay and I believe that children should be exposed to it in a balance to know what it is. My home centre is very anti-technology so this blog was a great way for me to share my ideas and approaches with them. For example the digital camera, I explained to the teachers what learning development was happening for them to acknowledge the significance of technology in our centre. The digital camera was my first reflection and it was a great way for me to introduce the centre to technology without frightening them. Since my centre is very involved in creativity I explained to them how the camera was part of creativity and the exploration and imagination of children were being tested when using a digital camera. This is linked to “Technology is also a creative and purposeful activity aimed at meeting needs and opportunities through the development of products, systems or environment” (Smorti, 1999, p.5). With this reflection the feedback I got was that it is a great resource to introduce to children but depending on their age as Rachel said she works with under 2’s so she wants to make them familiar with photos because she will find it hard to work with a digital camera with babies. Most comments were agreeing with my reflection in the sense that an anti-technology centre could adjust to a digital camera so well.

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Making paint in the centre was very challenging for me, this reflection I tried to focus on the process then the actual product as finding solutions, and thinking about process is more important (Smorti, 1999, p.7). What I found with this reflection was the importance of enquiring and exploring; children were problem solving and discussing what was happening this was technology to be. I posted a video of making paint on this reflection to share my knowledge with my group. The response I received that was great to read, would be Rachel’s comment where she said she shared the video with the children at her centre so children can watch. I felt great to be able to share my knowledge with others and see what they did with it. Jasmeet said this activity depends on the age group, well every activity depends on the age group what matters is to find a solution that can work with the age group you are working with, like this activity had 4 year olds, 3 year olds and 2 year olds involved. It did get messy but no body said technology was suppose to be pretty.

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My final reflection on technology was on laptops this activity was very teacher guided but I believe children were learning more by me dictating their moves to learn the basic use of this technology. This activity was done with 4 year olds, as I wanted to use it for my school readiness programme. I did this because the NZ curriculum is a subject in primary school and I believe children need to learn the importance of technology by this age to be able to accept technology when they go to school so it would not seem so frightening to them. I focused on how to make laptops easier and basic for children in this activity and by providing the use of researching things instead of playing YouTube videos or music. It was a great exploration for the children. The feedback I got was a positive one from Jasmeet http://ash-khan44.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/laptops.html?showComment=1346222365110 where she said she really like the idea how I gathered information and incorporated into children's learning by using the laptop.

Overall I found that technology plays a great significance in children’s learning development it builds, cognitive skills, communication skills, physical skills as Ruby talks about in her blog http://jiayinhong.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/going-to-course.html

From reading the groups blogs and learning about the different types of technology they have in their centre was good to read on, as it gave me great insights on what I could introduce to my centre that can build on technology in the centre.

Reference 

Smorti, S. (1999) Technology in Early Childhood. Early Education, 19, 5-10.

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