This week we got to
work with the children and create our talking book page. I found it quite an
interesting task as we were working with year one children who had previous
experience of working with digital technology. This however did not show itself
in the way that I was expecting and they had to be guided as to what needed to
be done. On the other hand this is no real surprise and isn’t that the teacher’s
job? I noticed that even though they may have had minimal experience of the
programmes that we were using they were still confident in using the iPads
provided. This didn’t surprise me as much as I thought it would as we had been
told that most of them have access to an iPad at home.
Working with the
children to produce the book was an unforgettable experience but I felt that
due to time constraints we were unable to complete the task to a level that I personally
would have been happy with. Working with the children we found it hard to keep
them on task at times when they were not recording or editing work and more
than once a child was found playing a game in the corner while the others
worked. This may have been due to the novelty factor of the iPads and being
given free rein on them.
If I had the
opportunity to work with children again in this way I would be more regimented
in what the tasks we had to complete and set goals for the children to aim
towards. In this way it would remind them that this is school work and not just
a chance to play around with the iPads and friends. I would also have liked to
of given them more chance to be involved in the editing and laying out of the
page rather than finishing it off ourselves because we ran out of time.
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