Lesson plans for all Grade levels on digital citizenship. Covers internet safety, privacy/security, digital footprints/reputation, self-image, info literacy, cyberbullying, copyright, etc.
Uses images and graphics to help explain global conflicts over the past 100 years. Useful WWI information for the centenary of its outbreak.
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all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion, starting at birth
how important it is to read to even very young children
“When we show them a video of a story, do we short circuit that process a little?” he asked. “Are we taking that job away from them? They’re not having to imagine the story; it’s just being fed to them.”
it is important that young children hear language, and that they need to hear it from people, not from screens.
serious disparities in how much language children hear
reading picture books with young children may mean that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words