Hi everyone, my name is Amanda. I come from a family of five which consists of my brother, sister, my mom, dad and I. I am from Amherst, Ohio where I have lived my whole life. A few of my interests are shopping, hanging out with my friends, working out, meeting new people, the beach, and music. In, addition I love being involved in my sorority!!
I decided to attend Bowling Green State University because of their amazing education program. However, my mom did attend Bowling Green back in the day and influenced me to come here as well. Throughout this course I am planning on learning more in depth about computers and how to create my own webpage incase I ever need to in the future. While in this course I am also planning on becoming more familiar with the different types of computer programs for young children. I feel that if I am able to learn and understand more about computer it will be easier for me in the future to assist children in my classroom when working on computers.
I feel that it is a great idea to get elementary children using technology as a learning tool at such a young age. Technology has its ups and downs. I believe that children should start using technology as early as possible so they are able to become familiar with technology and how to use it. In the future our world is going to be based on more technology than ever. So it is a great idea to get children started working on computers and using different websites to find the information they are looking for. Children who are curious about something are able to easily google the topic they are interested in and find the answer right away rather than searching through books and going to the library. I feel that computers are a much faster way of doing things. It is less time consuming.
On the other hand, I feel that some technology such as computer is bad for children because some children may access too much information. If certain webpages are not blocked, children may start to enter some adult webpages and learning information that they should not know at their age. Overall, I feel that computers and most technology should definitely start being used with elementary aged children.