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Deborah Baillesderr

Distance Learning Resources - 24 views

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    I just got this from one of the wonderful teachers in my circle. A lot of tech. programs (a lot of them offering access for free) to use for distance learning, and when we get back to school, flipped classroom activities. Stay healthy!
Javier E

Preschool lessons: New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger... - 1 views

  • Suppose we gave a group of 4-year-olds exactly the same problems and only varied on whether we taught them directly or encouraged them to figure it out for themselves? Would they learn different things and develop different solutions? The two new studies in Cognition are the first to systematically show that they would.
  • Direct instruction really can limit young children's learning. Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific—this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
  • Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental. It's this kind of learning, in fact, that allows kids to learn from teachers in the first place.
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  • there is an intrinsic trade-off between that kind of learning and the more wide-ranging learning that is so natural for young children. Knowing this, it's more important than ever to give children's remarkable, spontaneous learning abilities free rein. That means a rich, stable, and safe world, with affectionate and supportive grown-ups, and lots of opportunities for exploration and play. Not school for babies.
Bill Selak

California Preschool Instructional Networks - 21 views

  • His presentation focused upon how social, emotional, and motivational skills are central to learning in early childhood and are foundations for school readiness.
Steve Ransom

Debate on playtime's value grows as more states fund preschool - washingtonpost.com - 6 views

  • Nevertheless, in kindergarten, children are playing for fewer than 30 minutes a day
  • Play advocates welcome the dollars but worry that politicians eager for tangible returns on taxpayers' investment in early education, and school officials eager for better test scores, will push for more direct instruction, an efficient way to get short-term gains in literacy and math.
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    Nevertheless, in kindergarten, children are playing for fewer than 30 minutes a day
Martin Leicht

What happened to America's teens when coronavirus disrupted high school? - 10 views

  • biggest challenge of the pandemic was not that I was depressed but just, every day became the same thing. It kind of became, like, boring and saddening because this isn’t what I’m used to.
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      You can't do the same thing online that you did in class. It doesn't translate.
  • Covid gave them the chance to see that, hey, our kids actually learn better when they have a little bit of a break.
Siri Anderson

K-12 Educators' Reaction and Response to ChatGPT and AI Tools During the 2022-2023 Scho... - 13 views

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    Please consider completing this survey for researchers examining teacher use/perceptions of ChatGPT and AI. Thank you!
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