FINAL PROJECT DCT 0033

Mini Poster for Computer Games (Mobile Collaboration)

Introduction

           

Computer games or PC games are video games where it is played on a personal computer and not a dedicated video game from console or arcade machine but being played in the computer. 
Computer games include a (PlayStation and other), a greater degree of user control over the video-gaming hardware and software used and a generally greater capacity in input, processing, and output where it is being play by using computer devices.

Computer games mobile collaboration is  game which been played either in the phone, computer, tablet or any devices that applicable. 

Mobile collaboration is technology-based process of communicating using electronic assets such hand phone, tab, and others and accompanying software designed for use in remote locations. 

Computer Games

Educational Games

Scrabble Online Games

Scrabble is word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter onto a game board. The tiles must form words which in crossword fashion, flow left to right in rows or downwards in columns. The words are defined in standard dictionary and can play with together. 

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUeSZO5aGtk

Jungle Brain - Brain Game

Jungle brain game is suitable for children to learn about mathematics example counting number. This is having many levels which is when children finish they can go to the next level it is more challenge. The first level question give easy number to count then to next level it change to big number so children must give answer quickly to go the next step. The game will help children in cognitive domain because it is related which brain thinking children such as give correct answer to move other place. 
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXsf25EtpY

Arcade Games

Turbo Drifters - Online Games 

Turbo Drifter is a game about car race which is can be played by multiplayer persons. For the first, the player need need to select the level of game either grand prix, quick run or 2 players. After select the level of the game, the player need o choose the car and the cup. The game have a few round and the player who finish the round faster he/she will become the winner. 

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axeyn9TJzjU

Soccer game - Game Play

A form of football played between two teams, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the arms and hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who may use their hands to catch, carry, throw, or stop the ball. The benefit of game is help children to develop of cognitive domain means their skills to catch the ball and strategy plan for win. Secondly is physical domain, children are using fine motor skill such as eyes, focus the game and fine finger the tactical of movement for play.  Thirdly is emotional and social domain which is children will enjoy and build relationship with other player. 
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni83XIHh_bY

Why We're Passionate In ECE.

We are passionate about ECE because we want to help children in their development. Early childhood education (ECE) is about educating children from birth to the age of eight years old. At this time, children like to imitate the behavior and movement from adult or someone that they interest to help children in their development of cognitive. It is where Albert Bandura said that children learn through imitation. For example, a teacher is teaching at the front of the class. One of her student came home and plays the dramatic play by her and plays a role as a teacher. The child follows what have she seen at the class on how her teacher teaches at the class. There are four domains of development which is important in children development such as physical development (related to fine and gross motor skills), social and emotion development (about feeling and socialize), cognitive development (brain development) and language development (speaking, hearing, writing). For example domain of cognitive is give children activity by learning through play such as using block and the children need to think how to build a house using it. The benefit that the children will learn through this activity is about counting, coloring and creative thinking.

 Aside from that, educate to be someone that has leadership skill. It is means how teacher handle their work with professional and good manner. As a teacher, we must have self-confident especially when teaching the children such as during present in classroom. Teacher must have strategies, braveness and think how to make children interest to learn and understand about what they learn. Teacher is the role model of children so teacher must show good behavior and children will like to imitate. For example arrange shoes before come to classroom. Teacher must have strategies how to control children especially when do activity such as give instruction, observation and teacher will participate too.

Working in Early childhood education can build the passionate attitude in us because children have many characteristic. For example, such as in the situation of when the activity is conduct in group, some of children may not give their cooperation. Teacher must have more idea and think how to solve problem because not all children will follow the instruction. If children are doing mistake, do not simply angry to children because children is soft hearted but give them opportunity again to repeat until children can do or success. Then, passion when have complained from others such as complained from parents and as a teacher, we need to be passion to trying to correct the mistake.

 Last but not least, the reason why we are passionate about ECE is because we want to organize kindergarten in more modern. It is means that we want to bring all the kindergarten in Malaysia to the same level with the other country such as Russia. One of the things that we will do is provide appropriate facilities to the kindergarten such as have many areas which are area of science, music, art and craft and others. It is because in kindergarten, the children will be able to do many activities because there were appropriate facilities that they can use. For example, the children can dance at the area of music area because there were have materials that children can use with their activity such as music, dance carpet and others. I also want to add the subject that can help in the religious thing such as Arabic, Islamic study or moral studies and hafazan so children will not only learn about life but they also can learn about religious. At the time of learning, children can use technologies as a tool to make their learning become easy such as computer. By using the technologies, children can use it to find thing that related with their education.

History Of ECE & Theories

Providing the care, guidance, and education for children aged from zero to eight years old outside the home, early childhood education is the basic foundation for young children to be ready to learn, ready to build up personality, and ready to gain knowledge and experiences of life and environments. Early childhood curriculum today have become the most important education in children’s life and educating young children within the family have started for many years before. It is the theories and facets that have been evolving.

People often questioned which theories or methods are more appropriate and applicable to children’s development. Well, there are several theorists that are well known to people and their theories and methods are commonly used by early childhood educators.

According to the Community Playthings, the philosophical foundations of early childhood education were provided by John Amos Comenius, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Its curriculums and methodology were created by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel, Maria Montessori, and Rudolf Steiner. Most recently, the theories that have been used in several countries are The Montessori Method, Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory, Reggio Emilia Approach, and Lev Vygotsky’s Theory. In here, we will see about Montessori Method and Piaget’s Cognitive Theory.

The Montessori Method

Montessori Method was founded by Maria Montessori, the woman in Italy that earned a medical degree and became the country’s first woman doctor. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) began her work with children during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After her graduation, she became interested toward developmentally disabled children. She felt that they were not taught properly and schools should be established for these children.

Due to her desire to put her knowledge and work into practices, in 1907 Maria Montessori opened the ‘Children’s House’ in Rome for young children with working mothers. Just as Froebel, Montessori focused on fulfilling the needs of the child to their fullest potential and placed them as the centre of learning. Using her experiences with developmentally challenged children, she believes that with the right educational approaches, all children are allowed to be free to explore, play with their environment, learn, and grow.

In her center, she also emphasized the relationship between motor skills and sensory function and children’s physical and mental abilities developments. To advocate these abilities, she creates self-paced activities where some materials were designed to prepare children’s sense of formalized and practical life skills. Examples like getting dress, buttoning shirts, pouring milk, writing, and reading.

In addition, Montessori Method is requiring teachers to prepare the environment then leave the children to use the materials without interference and any help from other children happens spontaneously. Furniture for the classroom were designed in child-size and placed where children are able to reach them. The purposes for these kinds of approaches were meant to make children to develop self-direction and concentration.

Piaget’s Cognitive Theory

Jean Piaget, born in 1896 had a strong influence in early childhood curricula and practices. He discovered that children of different ages had their own system of logic or ways of conceptualizing the world. He believes that intelligence develops over time and considered children are like scientist, always experimenting and explore the world with their own thinking in constructing their knowledge.

Using children’s age, after several experiments, observations and interviews, he comes up with a theory of four stages of cognitive in children’s developments. In Table 1.0, stage four applies to older children and adults.

  

Age	Stage	Characteristic	Children’s Learning
0 – 24 months	Sensorimotor	Infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions.	Object Permanence – objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
2 – 7 years	Preoperational	Words and images reflect increase symbolic thinking and go beyond the connection of sensory information and physical action. Egocentrism is present.	Three mountain task.
7 – 11 years	Concrete Operational	Child can now reason logically about concrete events and classify objects into different sets.	Conservation - altering substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties.
11 – adulthood	Formal Operational	Child reasons in more abstract, idealistic and logical ways. Adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks.	Devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions.

                              Table 1.0 Piaget’s Stages of Development