Children with technologies.

Which is the best age to expose computer to young children?

Some says 5 years old. The others says primary level.

*There is no right or wrong answer, it depends on yourself, when you wanted to introduce it to your child.

Nowadays, young children below age of 5 been already exposed to computer and also other technologies such as hand phones, play station, iPOd and others and those can categorized as their toys. During my days, I think "game boy" was one of the popular tech toy for us to play but, now they have "PSP". I'm not saying playing with those are bad, there are always advantage and disadvantage of it. Playing with computer or others can get really addicted for young children as they grow up. As I was reading "Star Two" newspaper, there was a section on "how computer can dampen our thinking because we depend too much on computer". I thought this is pretty serious to young children if they get addicted to it and it can also lead to obesity if the child doesn't exercise. The best way is always set limit to your child when he/she wants to play the computer and always stay with your child. Besides that, parents should involve themselves more with children as in stay active so, children can also have healthy lifestyle. Here's a website that I think can help parents and children enjoy http://familyfun.go.com/ .

Although technologies can color up their life and it's part of their life. I think that children should expose to nature and let them freely explore the world. You might never know that the nature are getting distinguish in the coming years and robots are built.

I came across a video on youtube about the technologies are affecting the children's growth and development. There are also some suggestion made by Michael Rich (in the video), on how parents can help their children in using the media appropriately.

CHILDREN.

Describe children?

Adorable and noisy.

Those are the words from me before I took this course.

What makes you wanted to take ECE course?

*This was the question that is always being asked by our lecturers.

Have you ever thought of why? As for me, before I took this course, I have never work in a center or kindergarten, so, I have never work with a large group of children. But, I did involve myself with my niece and nephew, so, I find it a bit hard to handle them. When I look at my niece and nephew who are age 4 and 5 years old, I always wonder what makes them so happy, giggling with each other over something that we as a teenager or adult see. Besides that, I always find children who are left hander fascinating and I don’t know why. There is something special when a child holds a pencil or pen with their left hand. I always guess it’s because they always uses their left hand to hold things when they are infant. But, my friend told me that it’s because they are gifted. When my niece and nephew cry, I never could figure out what they wanted besides their milk. But, it could be other reasons they cried like being away from their parents which is called the attachment between their parents are strong. This is one thing I learned in ECE course and this is why I wanted to join the ECE field, it's where I learned more about children's development and it was also my ambition to become a teacher.

What was my first impression on Early Childhood Education course?

To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting much because I didn’t fully posses the passion for children, although I wanted to become a teacher. But, after learning so many subjects I started to have the commitment on becoming a kindergarten educator. Since I’m in my 4^th semester now, I already had done 14 subjects out of 27 subjects which are Foundation of ECE, Children development, Observation and Assessment of Young Children, English and others. These subjects teach me so much on how children develop in each stage, the history of ECE, how to plan and environment, what type of method to use for observation, theories and so on. I never know this course was so wide on studying about children. The lecturers were good enough that they provide us notes, examples, guide us, their own experiences and its fun to listen to their experiences because there are so many things that we won’t expect to happen in the situation. Adding on, what we have learned there are certain things we can't use or apply to children as will be in a different situation. Although there are many assignments to be completed for one subject but, it’s worthy to be done because we enjoy the process to come out with the final product as for children we let them enjoy the process rather we focus on their final product. I'm also really thankful that I took this course because I learned many things beside about children, there were lessons on planning, licensing, health and even special needs and I can't wait for this subject in my later semester ☺.