My Daily Experiences and Pedagogy

Today is the moment of high technology. Cars, gadgets, computers and other products of science and technology keep on innovating and changing the life of humans as well. Things that are not done by old generation is now possible with the current and amazing inventions of today. Keen research and practical application affect the lifestyles of people.

In Education, the advances of technology is employed to attain better learning. Better teaching approaches and strategies mean better quality of students. Traditional way of teaching has gone. The new has come. From utilizing any paper visual aids, black board and chalk to power point presentations.

For young kids, playing virtual toys like toy laptops can help their mental and motor development. With the sounds they hear, color and shapes they see and different functions to touch, they encode knowledge and learning. However, educators should not forget about the holistic learning approach.

Interactive toys for learning allow them to discover more as they continue their search for knowledge. See the image below. These are the toys of my nieces given by their granny. It’s a toy laptop with 10 educational and fun activities. The magic wand serves as the screen pointer. Its got a mouse too formed like a shoe of Cinderella.

These are the 10 fun activities in this laptop toys.

1. Lovely letter- matching big and small letters
2. Missing letter- filling in the missing letter of a word with picture
3. Picture match- matching the pictures of the words heard
4. Number order- arranging numbers in order
5. Magical math- adding and subtracting one digit numbers
6. Choose a shoe- matching same pairs of shoes
7. Dress up- choosing your own style of Cinderella’s gown
8. Pretty puzzles-  rearranging pictures
9. Charming pairs- clicking for the pair of pictures like a memory game
10. Music time- listening to music with 10 different choices

I got to know this Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget when I first had my major subjects. I hear her names oftentimes mentioned by our professors and I can see her names in our books about education. In the field of our concentration, Jean Piaget is not anonymous. She’s the author of the idea that a child builds cognitive structures in learning which known as the Cognitive Theory.

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