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Childcare iPad apps for Sign In/Out, Attendance, Text Alerts and Child Portfolios - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 04 Jan 13
     
    "We are an exciting startup in the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Clara, CA) providing iPhone apps and web admin tools to Child care centers and preschools. Our apps enable smooth communication between preschools and parents through exchange of photos, email and notifications. Our single touch signin/sigout app allows parents to signin and signout their children from the daycare. We are currently in private beta. Kinderlime improves a preschool operators bottomline by getting the word of mouth through your exisiting families and real time ratio tracking. "
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Using video to investigate preschool classroom interaction: education research assumpti... - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 02 Jan 13
     
    "This article reports on the use of video to collect dynamic visual data in education research and proposes that using visual technologies to collect data can give new insights into classroom interaction. Video data unveil how young children use the full range of material and bodily resources available to them to make and express meaning, forcing a reconsideration of Vygotskian accounts of the relationship between thought and language by producing grounded evidence for a pluralistic interpretation of the construction and negotiation of meaning. In addition to challenging language-biased approaches to classroom interaction, using video to collect data also forces a reexamination of established methodological practices. Drawing on data from ESRC-funded ethnographic video case studies of 3-year-old children communicating at home and in a preschool playgroup, this article discusses methodological and ethical dilemmas encountered in the collection and transcription, or representation, of dynamic visual data, arguing that visual data gives insights into aspects of communicative behaviour pre"
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Ethnography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos = folk/people and γράφω grapho = to write) is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group.[1][2][3]
  • communication studies
  • should be reflexive, make a substantial contribution toward the understanding of the social life of humans, have an aesthetic impact on the reader, and express a credible reality
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  • Data collection methods are meant to capture the "social meanings and ordinary activities" [8] of people (informants) in "naturally occurring settings"
  • from the point of view of the subject (not the participant ethnographer)
  • records all observed behavior and describes all symbol-meaning relations using concepts that avoid casual explanations.
  • Multiple methods of data collection may be employed to facilitate a relationship that allows for a more personal and in-depth portrait of the informants and their community.
  • collect data in such a way that the researcher imposes a minimal amount of their own bias on the data.
  • participant observation, field notes, interviews, and surveys.
  • Interviews are often taped and later transcribed, allowing the interview to proceed unimpaired of note-taking,
  • Secondary research and document analysis are also employed to provide insight into the research topic.
  • Reflexivity refers to the researcher's aim "to explore the ways in which [the] researcher's involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research"
  • the ethnographer focuses attention on a community, selecting knowledgeable informants who know the activities of the community well.
  • Ethnography relies greatly on up-close, personal experience. Participation, rather than just observation, is one of the keys to this process
  • David McGavock on 16 Jan 13
     
    What if we used the approach of Ethnographer to guide us in our understanding of preschool "culture"
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UW research on brain activity delivers lessons on how kids learn | Local News | The Sea... - 0 views

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  • she has found, in work that is not yet published, that the ability of 6-month-olds to tune in to the sounds of their native language — like the subtle difference between “pat” and “bat” — predicts a skill at age 5 that corresponds strongly with reading success.
  • parents strengthen those connections as their children grow by reading aloud to them, asking open-ended questions, and practicing serve-and-return conversations that build vocabulary and basic knowledge about the world around them.
  • two dimensions of attention — locking in on what’s important while ignoring distractions — predicted both how well they would speak at age 2½ as well as their phonological awareness at age 5.
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  • Children who have even one adult spending time with them like that can form those connections, regardless of family wealth and education,
  • preschool should be about practicing all the ways that the brain experiences language — hearing it, speaking it, seeing it and writing it
  • Preschool also should provide “lots of opportunities to play, explore, listen to stories, look at the pictures and written words, and talk about what they hear,” Berninger said.
  • David McGavock on 22 Sep 14
     
    "Those two dimensions of attention - locking in on what's important while ignoring distractions - predicted both how well they would speak at age 2½ as well as their phonological awareness at age 5. Parents direct their babies' attention to what's important with lots of warm, loving, face-to-face talk using that kind of singsong voice that dips and rises and stretches out vowel sounds. And parents strengthen those connections as their children grow by reading aloud to them, asking open-ended questions, and practicing serve-and-return conversations that build vocabulary and basic knowledge about the world around them. Children who have even one adult spending time with them like that can form those connections, regardless of family wealth and education, Kuhl said."
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Brain Development and Learning 2013 Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 24-28, 2013 - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 21 Jan 13
     
    "A conference dedicated to making a difference. Be prepared to be inspired, empowered, perhaps even transformed. An interdisciplinary conference devoted to improving children's lives by highlighting innovative programs and by making the newest research and insights from neuroscience, child development, psychology, & medicine understandable & applicable to those who work directly with children."
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Baby/Toddler Reading: What Neuroscientists and Parents Need to Know | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • experts seem to think that baby/toddler reading and learning to read in school are the same. They aren't. Of course babies and toddlers don't have the brain development to learn to read like a 6-year-old. Early literacy experts have come to understand that babies and toddlers learn to read differently.
  • Although no one can explain exactly how baby/toddler reading works, babies do have capacities from birth to age 3 for picking up reading–including phonics patterns and decoding–similar to their capacities for picking up languages.
  • hese events require intimate physical contact such as snuggling with a book or cuddling with the baby or toddler at the computer.
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  • The interview with Wang, a neuroscientist, along with one of his coauthors, Dr. Sandra Aamodt, celebrates the release of their new book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain, which synthesizes research on how the brain develops from infancy to adolescence and provides scores of tips for parents. The interview and a report on NPR's web site, "How to Help Your Child's Brain Grow Up Strong," are chock full of great advice that dovetails with best practices for baby/toddler reading:
  • • Don't use force.• Realize that children reach cognitive milestones at different times.• Expect babies' brains to do very complicated things. • Take advantage of the baby's special language capacities.• Capitalize on babies' attraction to language. • Use active and social exposure to words.• Encourage bilingual learning in babyhood.• Teach self-control.• Take advantage of your child's natural sense of fun.
  • "The most simple way is to talk to your baby and around your baby a lot" and "Respond when the baby speaks, even if the baby isn't forming the words correctly or you don't understand it.
  • add reading aloud and talking about the story to increase the number and quality of word data going into the baby/toddler brain in the first three years of life.
  • most of all, add book sharing and word games, because the attention and fun with words and books are a wonderful vehicle for physical contact and bonding.
  • About 1 in 5 children struggle with phonemic awareness and other disabling issues, so dismissing reading as something that seems as simple as telling "the letter 'b' from the letter 'd' and so on" and saying that "it's something that older children can do without any effort at all," is oversimplification.
  • Many babies learn to read some words before they can speak them.
  • Children have to think in words before they can read them. But they don't necessarily have to speak them before they can read.
  • Teaching your baby or toddler to read joyfully and informally is easier than teaching a child to read formally at age 6.
  • Teach your baby/toddler to read and bring loving physical contact, language, thinking, feelings, bonding, creativity and expression into one simple act. There may be no better way to help your child's brain grow up strong than to teach your child to read joyfully.
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Videatives | Video Clips for Early Childhood & Child Development - 0 views

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    "What is a Videative? The word videative [vid´-é-ã-tive]   refers to the combination of text and video segments to create an integrated viewing experience (video + narrative = videative). The text explains the video and the video exemplifies the text. Our videatives help you see what children know™ and thereby help you better support their learning."
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Mission & History « Early Childhood Options - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 06 Jan 13
     
    Colorado Resource for Early Childhood. "Mission of Early Childhood Options The mission of Early Childhood Options is to promote a collaborative system that improves the quality, affordability and availability of early childhood programs in Summit County."
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Three Core Concepts in Early Development - 1 views

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  • David McGavock on 08 Jan 13
     
    "Three Core Concepts in Early Development Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation. This three-part video series from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse."
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