reflection

The two concepts of children and technology are wonderful. To me there is no limit to children’s learning, so when technology was invented, it should have been introduced to children or maybe children friendly first. Now that I have a child, I am proud that each day we spend time, even though she just bangs on any buttons and smiles, adventuring on the computer, Just as play with children was frowned upon but introduced and was successful and a good way for learning, technology will most likely take the lead and advance that.
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 Understanding multiple intelligences in early childhood education is important because we are the beginning and the root of a child’s learning development process. Within understanding multiple intelligences one must grasp that we are a multicultural society in which we learn and grasp our learning in many different ways. i.e.: listening, hands on, reading, play, music, arts, technology, etc. The importance for understanding is highly needed and recommended for we are an ever changing world choosing to be educators and wearing S’s on our chests. Having those eight kinds of smarts/intelligences from Garber allows an educator the opportunity to explore their one lesson (plan) and or idea through many realms and or categories so that they will be able to teach and reach each child they come across.
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The challenges I foresee myself facing in EDM300, in my WCU first summer course, will be to manage the work load with my home life and work like. Plus adding in, somehow, to get me some personal time. Largely foreseeing my overall boredom with some aspects and forms of technology. Within association to children, I foresee this course, my professor and fellow classmates aiding me to have more confidence in getting children involved and into technology, upon me opening my own center.
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Professional Growth & Development __//** ==== EDM300 has been a wonderful part of my educational growth and development. When first introduced to this class, just by title, my mind worried about what exactly was going to take place in this class and how much work is this class going to be. Upon the first week, the professor showed me, just verbally, that I was in for a challenge but had least to worry about. As the class continued on I found myself in the place of professor’s T.A., due to her not having one and truly needing one with the classes’ low level with technology. I can say that I have come far, even though on the outside it may have not seemed so. Because I wasn’t aware of sites that Donna S. has provided my future the knowledge of : wiki spaces and goggle docs. Now that I am in a childcare setting, working –YEAH—I plan to incorporate the camera as much as possible, no matter what class I am in. With the camera in use, whether by adults or children, we will be able to capture the moments during our interactions within a day, activity, walk, feeding, and or nap. My choice in the camera is because it will show everyone what are the different things we do in a day, week, and month. Also with that we can build other activities with the pictures by doing the digital stories, making place mats, cards, gaming cards, or just a simple picture/poster board Z(making sure we have signed picture consent) Pending I am with the older children we will incorporate the computer for them to explore the internet. There they can travel the many educational gaming interactive sites for children: pbs, sprout, why, sesame street, etc. I am not sure what site exactly what I am least likely to use, because I am about exploring any and all at least giving it a trial run, for each person (adult or child) learns through different things in different ways. But I most definitely know that I would want the school agers to do a photo story of a trip focusing on the voice over. Since I am no stranger to exploring, to find additional technology to integrate into early childhood education, I would most likely head to the main library and get some direction from there. I would also go about searching through PA Keys to see if they have a workshop of some sort that I could take; it may have other things that I have not been yet introduced to. Plus I know I always have the aid of my teachers, and am not ashamed to ask them. The plans for my digital portfolio are the same for my portfolio at my center and the overall ECE portfolio: each month I update it and make sure I keep myself well rounded and educated for this field grows and develops very rapidly. ====
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