Personal Reflection on Group
Blog project
Learning
from feedbacks:
I learned a lot of comment from my group members.
For example, using a hot glue gun gives the children ideas of how electrical
technology can heat things up and not touching the hot tip to protect own
safety, both of these can help children to develop their working theories to
make sense of the world. I learned from one of “songsuccess’s comment”, which
reminds me about we should always think about what is beyond children’s learning.
Also, according to those feedbacks which supported
my opinion, I increased my confidence about what I have understood of technology
and evaluation about children ‘s learning and development from using of technology.
Overall
evaluation:
In my first class of technology, the first
word jumped out of my mind is ICT, which is the understanding of technology. When
I knew technology included digital and non-digital, I tried to research what was
non-digital in my practicum. When my AT told that cooking is non-digital technology,
I thought back in my practicum, children could learn science from kitchen or
cooking, such as what would happen if added water or powder into the flour. Thus,
I asked myself, is science belonging to non-digital technology. Smorti (1999)
told me technology could happen in science, but technology was different from
science. Technology is “How can we design/make something that will…” and
science is “How it behaves” and “Why something happens.” So I learned
technology involves figure out and solve solutions, invention, and learn of how
things might be become, from group members’ blog, some gave an example of how
cooking relevant technology, for instance, using the oven on to make
the things hot, put hot tray on cooling rack to protect the bench from being
burnt, technologies are used in the cooking. I learned a new meaning
of technology - to expand human possibilities by addressing needs (Ministry of Education,
2007). Let children learn how to use available resources around them to content
their needs.
When I did some observation and talked
about staff what was technology, most of staff gave me examples were digital
technology, they did not have a lot of ideas about what was non – digital
technology. Then we thought about that together, someone went to research on
the Internet. Someone asked their tutor or classmates. I like the atmosphere of
learning together, whatever qualified staff or student teacher, which will enrich
our professional knowledge and wider curriculum for children’s learning. After
couple of days, a staff asked me how about my assessment of technology. I
shared what I learned and ideas to her. She was happy to take in.
I learned how to set up and operate my
blogger with group members, bloggers is a platform to measure our professional
knowledge and reflect our learning processes critically (Yang, 2009). I learned
that using blogs is a good way to stimulate our reading capacity and learn from
others’ writing and we can get feedbacks straightly from other readers by
comment on blogs. I realized that blogs could be used to communicate and interact
with parents and other educators. For example, we can post notice or provide
programme planning to parents, work out schedule to remind colleagues or subordinates
and share learning experiences or ask for helps from the bloggers.
Reference:
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand curriculum. Wellington,
New Zealand: Learning Media.
Smorti, S. (1999). Technology in Early
Childhood. Early Education, 19,
15-10.
Yang, S. –H. (2009). Using Blogs to Enhance Critical
Reflection and Community of Practice. Educational
Technology & Society, 12(2), 11-21.
