It can be very challenging when you work in extreme social classes like rich or poor communities. In this case yours is rich, and you mention that all the teachers expect you to have an iPad, how does that make you feel? I would feel out of place as I would feel the pressure to keep up with the latest gadgets. I like the approach that your teachers have towards the iPad, where children get one–on–one time with this device and teacher doing educational activities. You mentioned that the teachers set the tasks and the children have to complete them. Is there any time for the children to just have free play on it or choose the own activities? I agree with children having the access to digital technology but I don’t agree with them not be able to choose their own activities. I like the way your centre encourages children to bring their own ipads to the centre, I haven’t seen a mat time or news time been done by an iPad before. In my centre we don’t have ipads and only a few of our children have access to them at home, so I could imagine that if I used an iPad at mat time at my centre they would love it. This ipad machine is just one of many new technological devices in early childhood and I agree that we should expose our children to them to a certain degree so our children can “develop a broad technological literacy that will equip them to participate in society as informed citizens” (Ministry of Education, 2007, p.32).
It can be very challenging when you work in extreme social classes like rich or poor communities. In this case yours is rich, and you mention that all the teachers expect you to have an iPad, how does that make you feel? I would feel out of place as I would feel the pressure to keep up with the latest gadgets.
ReplyDeleteI like the approach that your teachers have towards the iPad, where children get one–on–one time with this device and teacher doing educational activities. You mentioned that the teachers set the tasks and the children have to complete them. Is there any time for the children to just have free play on it or choose the own activities? I agree with children having the access to digital technology but I don’t agree with them not be able to choose their own activities.
I like the way your centre encourages children to bring their own ipads to the centre, I haven’t seen a mat time or news time been done by an iPad before. In my centre we don’t have ipads and only a few of our children have access to them at home, so I could imagine that if I used an iPad at mat time at my centre they would love it.
This ipad machine is just one of many new technological devices in early childhood and I agree that we should expose our children to them to a certain degree so our children can “develop a broad technological literacy that will equip them to participate in society as informed citizens” (Ministry of Education, 2007, p.32).