Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood.
In this chapter, children the years from 2 to 6 are often called "the play years" aptly so, since play blossoms during this time and supports every aspect of development. The discussion opens with the physical achievements in motor coordination. Then it explores on early childhood cognition, beginning with Piaget's proportional stage. Along with Vygotsky's sociocultural stage.
1. One significant I wanted to talk about in this chapter is the Educational Media. Since technology has expanded throughout the years, everybody basically has access to any electronic device whether it is free or not. This also applies to young children especially since our chapter is on Early Childhood. Besides home and preschool, young children spend much time in another learning environment: electronic media, including ipads, television and computers. The textbook mentions that, "In the United States and other industrialized nations, nearly all homes have at least one television set, and most have two or more." There are many advantages and disadvantages to letting young children use electronic devices.
2. Since I am an aspiring educator and also a technology junkie, I wanted to be able to apply my knowledge and technology and skills and share them with my future students. In my ED271 course, we learned about preparing different documents that could be used in our future classrooms. One skilled I obtained from the course, is creating different ways to let students be more active in the classrooms. Teacher and student interaction if I may say, we learned to use kahoot to let students be able to more participation in the classrooms. But, since I am studying to have a degree on Early Chilhood, my students are still too young to use that kind of site. But, I wanted to show my future students different videos on the site "Youtube" and incorporate that into my lessons. So, that those who are more on the visual learner side, will understand the lessons more, vs. a student who is better at learning through their textbooks. An advantage on these educational media, is students will learn but at the same time, having fun while learning. And, an advantage will be that if technology in the classroom gets out of hand, it can get abused.