Date:
12th March 2013
CD player is another
very common technology tools that are used in the centre, so does my centre. In
my centre, children can access the CD player whenever they like. Children have
been taught how to use the CD player by the teachers, so if children want to play
a CD or a story book, they need to go to the teacher ask for the CD and play it
by themselves. When I was a child, there is no CD player for children to play
with, not even use in a centre. Teacher usually sang to children.
In this observation, child
A was using technology as a tool to share her favorite CDs with her friends. These
children have developed the ability and confidence to using technology in their
play. As Te Whāriki:
He Whāriki
Matauranga māngā
Mokopuna o Aotearoa states that children develop the ability and confidence
to use technology when children experience an environment for active
exploration (Ministry of Education, 1996). In our society, there are more than sixty
percent of jobs that require technology skills. Therefore, children will have a
hard time to fit in this technology society if they do not have the opportunity
to learn to use technology (Taylor, 2000). The experience of using this
technology tool provides children with the opportunity to enhance their
communication skills and language skills, such as when children responding to
what they have heard from the song and do the relevant actions. According to McManis and Gunnewig (2012), they believe a
group of children working with technology together can be a powerful type of
learning for them, especially for children’s language and social skills
development. This technology experience also promotes children with the
opportunity to become more independently. Children can read a story without an
adult’s support and they can listen to the story through using technology, it
also leads children to solve the problem when there is no one can read a story
to them.
Reference:
McManis, L., & Gunnewig, S.
B. (2012). Finding the Education in Educational Technology with Early Learners.
YC: Young Children, 67(3), 14-24.
Ministry of Education. (1996). Te Whāriki, He whāriki
mātauranga mo nga mokopunao Aotearoa: Early childhood curriculum.
Wellington, New Zealand: Learning Media.
Taylor, H.H. (2000). Technology: A key
to the future. Head Start Bulletin 66(1).
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www.headstartinfo.org/publications/hsbulletin66/cont_66.htm
CD players are indeed a very common technology used in most centres today. Children know the basic functions of a CD play such as the stop, pause and play buttons because they have been grown up in a very technological world. I like how children are allowed to use the CD player whenever they want at your centre and that they can bring in their favourite CD’s to share with their friends.
ReplyDeleteYou can also use the CD player to enhance and acknowledge the different cultures at your centre. My centre is a very multicultural centre, therefore we use the CD player as a tool to celebrate and acknowledge the different cultures. We play music from different cultures in different languages such as; Indian, Tongan, Hawaiian, Samoan, Māori and of course English. Playing music in different cultures and languages gives parents a sense of belonging as their language is being acknowledged and used within the centre (Ministry of Education, 1996). It also teaches children about different cultures, languages and helps them learn about people who come from a different background to theirs (Friedman, 2010).
Hi Jiawen, it’s great to see that your centre uses the CD player as a technology tool. I really like the way that your centre allows children to have access to the CD player of doing it themselves. I believe this is a really great way of building trust with children and most of all promoting children’s independency (Ministry of Education, 1996). In my centre we have a CD player However; children are not allowed to touch it only by teachers who have access to it. Therefore, I support that your centre provides children with the opportunity of developing self-skills in technology equipment (Gonzalez-Mena, 2008). I also like the way children are able to bring their own CD from home and sharing it with the other children. This makes links back to the child’s home and also acknowledging their culture. Other children will also be able to join in learning their language.
ReplyDeleteI can so relate to the c.d player as we use this a lot in my centre for book reading, songs for exercising, dancing, and it’s all just so much fun! It’s good that this technology is of reach and available for the children to access, and that you have taught them how to function this. In my centre c.d players are only for teacher use only so it’s good to know the experiences of it being child accessible. You’re absolutely right that it does create friendships and the confidence in functioning it. It’s amazing how children are learning to do so much for themselves now and how technology is influenced by the culture or the society in which is occurs (Smorti, 1999). In result of this learning experience it opens many doors to providing different ways and uses of technology children can benefit from. I like how you’ve made a connection to home, we also encourage this in my centre (Ministry of Education, 1996).
ReplyDeleteIn my centre we had cd player place on the stand higher away from the children.Children most of the time play around the cd player. I remembered one day a child was keen to dance and tried to reached up the top to the cd player.He climbed on a chair trying to reach on to the top shelf to turn the button of the cd player so they can dance to the music. According to your centre experiences on cd player allowed children to feel this technology tools and available for them to access to it. It is nice of you to share how you teaching children to sit down with action song and let them decide when and how to play a story or music.In our centre only teacher can access to the cd player. Learning from your centre experience will benefit other centers to teach children to know and express their confidence to sing a song or reading a book(Ministry of Education,1996.).In my centre we have a variety of different culture cd music, that share amongst each culture. When we support and encourage children with their musical play it will help developing their vocabulary in singing and playing.(Isenburg@Jalongo 1993.109).Link to Te Whariki Contribution Technology,growing experience in solving problems and develops children's understanding of how Technologies can help them and others.(Ministry of Education,1996).
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