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Maker Books | Craft Book - Maker Shed - 9 views

www.makershed.com/...books

makerspaces maker DIY books craft

shared by Crissi Blair on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 25 Aug 15
     
    Maker Shed has all sorts of resources, this link to the books section. Lots of 3D, Arduino, robot etc resources.
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Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - NYTimes.com - 4 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...dtime-stories-for-young-brains

childlit book preschool development

shared by Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • 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.”
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  • 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
  • Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15
     
    Research into the benefits, indeed the necessity, of reading to young children.
Crissi Blair

Jake Green photographs emerging children's illustrators in his book, The Bookmaker's St... - 4 views

www.slate.com/...ustrators_in_his_book_the.html

emerging illustrators childlit picturebook illustration book

shared by Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15
     
    A book is coming, featuring the up and coming picture book illustrators, some have already had quite a measure of success (Herve Tullet, Chris Haughton) others I've not heard of before but will be checking out their books asap.
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MakerSpaces and the Participatory Library - 10 views

www.facebook.com/...librarymaker

participatory facebook library makerspaces tools

shared by Crissi Blair on 21 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 21 Aug 15
     
    Librarians into makerspaces. Excellent facebook page.
Crissi Blair

Reading for pleasure builds empathy and improves wellbeing, research from The Reading A... - 4 views

readingagency.org.uk/...-the-reading-agency-finds.html

literacy Research Reading and empowerment

shared by Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15 - Cached
  • reading for pleasure can increase empathy, improve relationships with others, reduce the symptoms of depression and the risk of dementia, and improve wellbeing throughout life
  • strong evidence to show that reading for pleasure plays a vital role in improving educational outcomes
  • in the UK, reading levels are low among people of all ages: most children do not read on a daily basis and almost a third of adults don't read for pleasure
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  • reading for pleasure and empowerment
  • better parent-child communication
  • reduction of depression and dementia symptoms among adults.
  • people who choose to read, and enjoy doing so, in their spare time are more likely to reap all of these benefits
  • When I write a story I hope to beguile, to enchant, to bewitch, to perform an act of magic on and with my readers' imaginations.
  • The true aim of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it'."
  • everything changes when we read
  • reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on life outcomes
  • children who read for pleasure are happier, healthier and do better in life than those who don't
  • Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15
     
    Research in UK into benefits of reading for pleasure
Crissi Blair

Peter O'Connor: The case for local schools - 2 views

m.nzherald.co.nz/...article.cfm

schools Auckland education PeterO'Connor

shared by Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • So why would you choose your local school now? Simply because all the evidence suggests that the edge in education parents seek is not gained with fancy technological gadgets, nor in this idea of effective or good teachers.
  • The key is in the quality of the relationship that children have with their classroom teacher. And we simply have in New Zealand amongst the very best teachers in the world and you can pretty much trust that the ones in your local school are as good as the ones in that expensive private school down the road.
  • if more of our kids go to their local school, we have a chance to rebuild a sense of community,
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  • And we refuse to be marketed to, to be sold the lie that our community and our school is not as good as that one down the road where the richer kids go to
  • the core role of schools. That role is not literacy and numeracy but about creating a community of happy kids learning about the world and their place in it.
  • Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15
     
    Peter O'Connor writes about the benefits of local schools in Auckland.
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