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Screen time : how electronic media-- from baby videos to educational software-- affects your young child
A study of the impact of television on children under five distills research into answers designed to help parents make informed decisions about the amount and types of television watching, explaining when it is helpful and when it might be harmful to developing minds.
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Transforming Education in the Primary Years
[...] effective preK-3rd educators use developmentaUy appropriate formative assessments and benchmarks to monitor children's progress against the curriculum and standards, to inform instruction and identify gaps in children's knowledge before they faU behind, and to target interventions and supports to struggling youngsters. [...] high-quality early education is the foundation on which aU future learning rests.
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Getting Smarter About E-Books for Children
[...]if Sherry Turkle's book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (2015) shows us anything, it is how much we need to pay attention to the way we use media to cue, not cut off, conversation. The educational e-book led to more expansive talk on the part of parents.\\n Literacy expert Barbara Culatta and her colleagues at Brigham Young University and Georgia State University have discovered some problems: some apps attempt to use bi-modal text to teach phonemic awareness but actually mislead young readers about the sounds of letters and words.
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How to Integrate STEM Into Early Childhood Education
Whether it is gardening, building forts, stacking blocks, playing at the water table, or lining up by height in the classroom, children demonstrate a clear readiness to engage in STEM learning early in life. And research from several disciplines is converging to show the importance of a new national commitment to early learning generally. Brain and skills-building experiences early in life are critical for child development, and high-quality early STEM experiences can support children's growth across areas as diverse as executive function and literacy development. Here, McClure et al detail the results of their research on the challenges, opportunities, and integration of STEM into early childhood education.
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Computers Track the Elusive Metaphor
Computers may not be able to master poetics like Aristotle, but they have become smart enough to know a metaphor when they see one. An online database called The Mind Is a Metaphor, created by Brad Pasanek, an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia, is a searchable bank of phrases, verses, and lines from literature that encapsulate metaphors of the mind. Pasanek hopes it will help literary and intellectual historians gain insights into how people's language reflects their understanding of the world around them.
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