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Megan Black

PEEP and the Big Wide World: Interactive Games - 10 views

www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/games

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shared by Megan Black on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 24 Aug 10
     
    Fun and funny games for younger students. I found this thanks to Colin Gallagher.
Fred Delventhal

Welcome to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - 6 views

www.imaginationlibrary.com

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 14 Jul 10
     
    Imagine if every one of your kindergartners had received 1 book a month since they were born prior to entering your classroom.
anonymous

kids games, kids stories, school , distance learning, online learning, free kids games,... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 30 Apr 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Apr 08
     
    interactive activities, over 400!
Maggie Verster

Interactive educational tool board for young children -cool - 24 views

www.tes.iboard.co.uk/...index.htm

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shared by Maggie Verster on 02 May 10 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 02 May 10
     
    Thanx Andrew 4 this one. Has game boards accross all the disciplines: literacy, numeracy, science, history, geography, ICT...
Ted Sakshaug

iKnowthat.com Punctuation Paintball Game - Online Multimedia Educational Games for Kids... - 0 views

www.iknowthat.com/...L3

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 26 May 09
     
    learn punctuation using a video game format
Kathy Benson

Tux Paint - 14 views

www.tuxpaint.org

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shared by Kathy Benson on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 12 Nov 09
     
    "Tux Paint Open Source Drawing Software for Children (About sponsors) Next From the gallery: Manga Harry Potter By: Vashti Tux Paint is free computer art software for children. * About * Features * Screenshots * Videos * Gallery * Stamps * Reviews * Schools Using It * User Comments * Requirements * Download * Purchase * Documentation * Known Issues * Merchandise * Events * News * Mailing Lists * Developers * Help Us * Links * Contact The Web tuxpaint.org "One of the best freeware programs I have tested in a long time!" - Ask The Computer Lady, February 2006 Open Source CMS 5-Star and "100 Clean" rating, April 2007 More reviews & awards... Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.) "
  • Kathy Benson on 07 Sep 12
     
    kidpix like draw program - will run on macs and pcs
John Marr

Don't show, don't tell? - MIT News Office - 11 views

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  • Don’t show, don’t tell? Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration. Emily Finn, MIT News Office
  • It turns out that there is a “double-edged sword” to pedagogy: Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery.
  • The danger is leading children to believe that they’ve learned all there is to know, thereby discouraging independent discovery.
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  • To study this phenomenon, the researchers built an original toy
  • they recruited 85 preschool-age children to interact with the toy under one of four conditions: pedagogical, interrupted, naïve and baseline.
  • In the pedagogical condition, the experimenter said, “Look at my toy! This is how my toy works,” and demonstrated the squeak function twice (but made no mention of the other functions).
  • Many children in the pedagogical condition failed to discover even one function in addition to the squeak, while children in the other three conditions found, on average, one or two functions they had not been taught. What’s more, children in the pedagogical condition spent less time playing with the toy — less than two minutes, on average — than children in the other conditions, whose times ranged from slightly more than two minutes in the naïve condition to longer than three minutes in the baseline condition.
  • “The whole double-edged sword concept is really interesting,” says Susan Gelman, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. “In almost any domain and across different cultures, we engage in spontaneous teaching. It doesn’t have to be in the classroom, we just naturally do this with young children — we show them how things are done, point out what’s important. This study shows how sensitive children are to the kind of cues that signal teaching.” Further experiments may want to examine differences in children’s behavior across cultures, she adds.
  • the study underscores the real-world trade-offs between education and exploration, and the importance of acknowledging what is unknown even while imparting what is known. Teachers should, where possible, offer the caveat that there may be more to learn.
  • John Marr on 02 Jul 11
     
    Recent study found that if you explain "all aspects" of a toy, children are less likely to discover new uses. If you allow them to "play and experiment" they will discover new a creative uses. This should be taken into account in teaching.
Vicki Davis

To Figure Out Unknown, Children Rely Less on Words Than Adults Do - 3 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Jan 12
     
    If you work with younger children under the age of 5, you will want to look deeper into this research that shows that words mean less to children than adults when trying to categorize things. ""In the past, we thought that if we name the things for children, the labels will do the rest: children would infer that the two things that have the same name are alike in some way or that they go together," he said. "We can't assume that anymore. We really need to do more than just label things."
Martin Burrett

Children with autism thrive in mainstream pre-schools - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 18
     
    "In a world first, breakthrough research from La Trobe University has shown that toddlers with autism are just as capable of learning important life skills through early-intervention delivered in mainstream pre-schools as in specialised settings. Over a period of three years, 44 children aged between 15 and 32 months were randomly assigned to classrooms that included only children with autism or to classrooms with typically developing peers."
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