The more I’ve delved into education, the more I’ve become interested in the ideologies of people such as Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, and other constructivist/constructionist thinkers. So in the spirit of constructionism, i have decided to temporarily deviate from NYU’s Educational Communication and Technology graduate program, and enroll in their Interactive Telecommunications Program program, where I will be learning my way around circuit boards.
I have always been fascinated with electronics, and I finally have the opportunity take advantage of all the affordances that both computing and physical objects contain. I am really looking forward to examining how I could leverage this sort of blended medium to enhance student engagement, and overall learning experience. Along with the technical skills I plan on learning, I am also extremely interested in the learning theory based around a constructionist courses such as the this.
I am hoping to absorb as much as I possibly can, and take what i have learned into early childhood classrooms. By no means am i a teacher, but I do understand that children need to not only understand how to use technology, but also how to design and create in order to support the amount of innovation that is necessary in the future. This sort of philosophy falls inline with what Seymour Papert speaks about, so no time like the present to learn by doing it myself. Wish me luck!
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I think you definitely have an advantage given that your wife is a KG teacher! You have someone to bounce those very real ideas off of, which is great! I anticipate you're going to love that class!
Yeah, it is always good to have someone to throw ideas at. Both her and my sister have worked with kids their entire working careers, so they've been extremely helpful.
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