Me and my blog

For this blog, i have decided to research into a few areas that i find interesting to me and things that are close to my heart! 

I am in educational studies in Swansea metropolitan so have researched and blogged out things that are in that topic that i feel people can relate to and have opinions on too!
I have also blogged about me personally and my family as they are people that are very precious to me :) 

I then thought i would blog about interesting facts such as the Apple company and Steve Jobs as i find him inspirational and a pleasure to read about. I have analysed different websites as well. 

Hope you all like my blog, and Enjoy!
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Jean Piaget

“All knowledge is tied to action” – Jean Piaget.

Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896 and died in 1980. He was a trained biologist who had a constructavist approach. Piaget covered cognitive development throughout his lifetime.

Piaget’s Key Principles:

1.       Children’s thoughts process cognitively differently from adults.

2.       Children also actively construct their own knowledge.

Piaget also said that there are three processes’ that children adapt his/her mental structures.

Piaget’s active learner has been described as ‘the lone scientists’. He also said that children go through different stages of learning.

1.       Sensory motor period (0-2 years)

-          Examples of 1) when a child is sucking or grasping.

-          Major development within this stage.

2.       Pre Operational stage (2-7 years)

3.       Concrete operational stage (7-11 years)

4.       Formal operational stage (11-12 years above)

Critiques.

Even though Piaget is in fact powerful to many people throughout the years that he had been doing research he was heavily criticized by many people. Critics leading arguments was that Piaget basically undervalued children’s abilities. Another criticism about Piaget’s work is that he used his own children for his experiments so they thought it was bias.

However, even though Piaget had criticism throughout his life. He is highly influential throughout the UK.

I find it truly fascinating while researching into Piaget work and even though I agree on the criticism’s and that he only used his own children for his experiments I feel that what he talked out when It came to The four stages of development that Jean Piaget spoke the truth and I agree on it. 

Voki

Voki.

Voki can be used in the classroom for any topic at any level, allowing to broaden a student’s internet use. It is fun, but can be used in an educational context as it is a very beneficial tool; if the children are having fun they will be more involved and absorbed in what they are doing.

Voki can be used to present work orally, as well as making work exciting for students. Children can also hear how words sound and how they are spoken. Websites such as Voki can build children’s confidence that is possibly shy at presenting. It can be a way of presenting technology into other subjects.

Voki can be used for a variety of different things such as;

·         Poetry and music

Students can create poems that can be spoken or sung by their favourite avatar.

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         Vocabulary

You could use Voki to present a vocabulary list of words; using real speech allows students to hear correct pronunciation. Students can stop, pause, play and fast forward at any time.

I believe that Voki is an important part of education as it helps children use it while boosting their confidence as well.

www.voki.com

Make your own avatar and see how you feel!