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Cognitive and Educational Neuroscientists study
the how the brain develops and learns. These two
scientists work to help teachers understand how
children learn.
These scientists examine
the physical aspect of the brain as well as the
inner workings of how the brain functions to
different things such as reading and speaking.
Technology is constantly being updated and
pushed into the schools. Teachers need to know
how technology affects learners.
Second Language learners are in almost every
school in the U.S. Regular education teachers
need to understand how to teach ELL students
when in a regular classroom
Children learn from their
experiences in the world
around them…
Sensory Experiences
Physical Experiences
Environment
“Refinements in the neural circuits that
mediate sensory, emotional, and social
behaviors are driven by experience.”
(Feldman & Knutson, 1998, p. 1067)
Positive Experiences
The types of experiences a child has
will affect the child for rest of his
life…
Family Life…
School…
Friends…
Homelessness…
Hunger…
Drug and Alcohol abuse in families…
Neglect…
Studies have shown children from poor
backgrounds have a more difficult time
academically than children from more affluent
backgrounds. (Campbell, Pungello, Miller-Johnson, Burchinal, &
Ramey, 2001; Martin, Ramey, & Ramey, 1990)
The development
of neural networks
in young children
is important as
they learn to read,
write, or
understand
numbers.
Executive Function
Attention
Task completion
Motivation
Working memory
Cognitive flexibility
Impulse control
When a student reads, the student must intentionally focus,
remain attentive to the task, and follow through on the task
of reading.
A student must be able to
work with several bits of
information at the same time
to be able to read well and
fully understand what they
are reading.
Studies show that children begin developing
executive functioning when they are infants…
Letters
Words
Sentences
Fluency
Meaning
Word order
Letter sounds
(Cartwright, 2009)
 Reading development
varies among children.
The skills used for
reading are the same
regardless of the
primary language of the
child.
Children of all languages must develop a verbal
working memory to be able to use and
understand phonemic awareness skills.
A student’s reading
skill can be
predicted when in
kindergarten by
observing their
phonological skills
during this time
period. (Nithart,Demont, Metz-Lutz,
Majerus, Poncelet, & Leybaert, 2011)
All children develop
executive functioning and use
the same types of
phonological awareness skills
to develop and process
reading.
A child’s SES plays a vital role
in the literacy development of
the child…
There has been a big
push for educators to
use as much technology
in the classroom as
possible
Technology allows students to work with other
students and professionals around the world
without leaving their classroom.
Students are entering school with technological
skills using smartphones, iPads, laptops, etc.
Teachers should take extra
time to learn about the many
cultures and languages
spoken in their classrooms.
U.S. schools are serving
many students that are
learning English as their
second language.
Computers offer
second and third
language learners
opportunities to
develop their
language skills in
instructional or
learning scenarios.
These scenarios
provide practice in
speaking the new
language while
learning the new
culture. (Allard, Bordeau, &
Mizoguchi, 2011)
Computer instruction and other
use of media should support read
a louds to build oral vocabulary
of English Language Learners.
+
Cognitive and Educational Neurosciences
are important contributors to the field of
education. The more we learn about how
the brain develops and learns, the better
prepared we can be as educators.
New technology provides supplemental
ways to reach each student at their own
developmental levels.
Technology, if used correctly and with a
purpose, can have a strong, positive effect on
students. Second language learners can use
technology for building vocabulary and reading
skills. This use is not limited to only ELLs.
Children from low SES backgrounds and
struggling readers are able to use technology to
help improve their reading abilities also.
I will apply my new learning as an
ELL/kindergarten teacher by including more
individual computer time for building stronger
reading skills and vocabulary development. This
will supplement the oral reading of stories
already being done in the classroom.
I will also try to increase the amount of positive
experiences within the school day. I will stress to
my parents the importance of early experiences
for their children.
Allard, D., Bordeau, J., & Mizoguchi, R. (2011). Addressing cultural and native language interference in second
language acquisition. CALICO Journal, 28(3), 677-698.
Anderson, V.A., Anderson, P., Northam, E., Jacobs, R., & Catroppa, C. (2001). Development of executive functions
through late childhood and adolescence in australian sample. Developmental Neuropsychology, 8, 71-82.
Campbell, F.A. Pungello, E.P., Miller-Johnson, S., Burchinal, M., & Ramey, C.T. (2001). The development of cognitive
and academic abilities: Growth curves from an early childhood experiment. Developmental Psychology, 37, 231-242.
Collins, A. & Halverson, R. (2010). The second educational revolution: Rethinking education in the age of technology.
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26, 18-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1365.2729.2009.00339.x
Feldman, D.E. & Knudsen, E.I. (1998). Experience dependent plasticity and the maturational glutamatergic synapsis
[Review}. Neuron, 20, 1067-1071.
Fox, S.E., Levitt, P., & Nelson III, C.A. (2010). How the timing and quality of early experiences influences the
development of brain architecture. Child Development, 81(1), 28-40. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01380.x
Lomicka,, L. (2006). Understanding the other: Intercultural exchange and CMC. In L. Ducate & N. Arnold (Eds.), Calling on
CALL: From theory and research to new directions in foreign language teaching, San Marcos, TX: CALICO
Macaruso, P., Hook, P.E., & McCabe, R. (2006). The efficacy of computer based supplementary phonics programs for advancing
reading skills in at-risk elementary students. Journal of Research in Reading, 29(2), 162-172. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00282.x
Noble, K.G., Wolmetz, M.E., Ochs, L.G., Farah, M.J., & McCandliss, B.D. (2006). Brain-based behavior relationships in reading
acquisition are modulated by socioeconomic factors. Developmental Science, 9(6), 642-654. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00542.x
Neuenschwander, R., Rothlisberger, M., Michel, E., & Roebers, C.M. (2009, April) Influence of socioeconomic status on executive
functions among kindergarten children. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Denver, CO
Nithart, C., Demont, E., Metz-Lutz, M.N., Majerus, S., Poncelet, M., & Leybaert, J. (2011). Early contribution of phonological
awareness and later influence of phonological memory throughout reading acquisition. Journal of Research in Reading, 34(3), 346-
363. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2009.01427.x
Piaget, J. & Inhelder, B. (1967). The psychology of the child. Weaver, H. (Trans.). New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc.
Silverman, R. & Hines, S. (2009). The effects of multi-media enhanced instruction on the vocabulary of English-language learners
and non-English language learners in prekindergarten through second grade. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(2), 305-314.
doi: 10.1037/a0014217
Vaessen, A., Bertrand, D., Toth, D., Csepe, V., Faisca, L., Reis, A., & Blomert, L. (2010). Cognitive development of fluent
word reading does not qualitatively differ between transparent and opaque orthographies. Journal of Educational
Psychology, 102(4), 827-842. doi: 10.1037/a0019465
Wagner, R.K., Torgesen, K., & Rashotte, C.A. (1994). Development pf reading related phonological processing abilities:
New evidence of a bidirectional causality from a latent variable longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 30, 73-
87.
Wise, B.W., Ring, J., & Olson, R.K. (2000). Individual differences in gains from computer assisted remedial reading.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 197-235.

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Cognition, culture, & learning media presentation ruether s educ 8401

  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3. Cognitive and Educational Neuroscientists study the how the brain develops and learns. These two scientists work to help teachers understand how children learn. These scientists examine the physical aspect of the brain as well as the inner workings of how the brain functions to different things such as reading and speaking.
  • 4. Technology is constantly being updated and pushed into the schools. Teachers need to know how technology affects learners.
  • 5. Second Language learners are in almost every school in the U.S. Regular education teachers need to understand how to teach ELL students when in a regular classroom
  • 6. Children learn from their experiences in the world around them…
  • 10.
  • 11. “Refinements in the neural circuits that mediate sensory, emotional, and social behaviors are driven by experience.” (Feldman & Knutson, 1998, p. 1067)
  • 12. Positive Experiences The types of experiences a child has will affect the child for rest of his life…
  • 17. Drug and Alcohol abuse in families… Neglect…
  • 18. Studies have shown children from poor backgrounds have a more difficult time academically than children from more affluent backgrounds. (Campbell, Pungello, Miller-Johnson, Burchinal, & Ramey, 2001; Martin, Ramey, & Ramey, 1990)
  • 19.
  • 20. The development of neural networks in young children is important as they learn to read, write, or understand numbers.
  • 23. When a student reads, the student must intentionally focus, remain attentive to the task, and follow through on the task of reading.
  • 24. A student must be able to work with several bits of information at the same time to be able to read well and fully understand what they are reading.
  • 25. Studies show that children begin developing executive functioning when they are infants…
  • 26.
  • 29. The skills used for reading are the same regardless of the primary language of the child.
  • 30. Children of all languages must develop a verbal working memory to be able to use and understand phonemic awareness skills.
  • 31. A student’s reading skill can be predicted when in kindergarten by observing their phonological skills during this time period. (Nithart,Demont, Metz-Lutz, Majerus, Poncelet, & Leybaert, 2011)
  • 32. All children develop executive functioning and use the same types of phonological awareness skills to develop and process reading.
  • 33. A child’s SES plays a vital role in the literacy development of the child…
  • 34. There has been a big push for educators to use as much technology in the classroom as possible
  • 35. Technology allows students to work with other students and professionals around the world without leaving their classroom.
  • 36. Students are entering school with technological skills using smartphones, iPads, laptops, etc.
  • 37. Teachers should take extra time to learn about the many cultures and languages spoken in their classrooms.
  • 38. U.S. schools are serving many students that are learning English as their second language.
  • 39. Computers offer second and third language learners opportunities to develop their language skills in instructional or learning scenarios. These scenarios provide practice in speaking the new language while learning the new culture. (Allard, Bordeau, & Mizoguchi, 2011)
  • 40. Computer instruction and other use of media should support read a louds to build oral vocabulary of English Language Learners. +
  • 41. Cognitive and Educational Neurosciences are important contributors to the field of education. The more we learn about how the brain develops and learns, the better prepared we can be as educators. New technology provides supplemental ways to reach each student at their own developmental levels.
  • 42. Technology, if used correctly and with a purpose, can have a strong, positive effect on students. Second language learners can use technology for building vocabulary and reading skills. This use is not limited to only ELLs. Children from low SES backgrounds and struggling readers are able to use technology to help improve their reading abilities also.
  • 43. I will apply my new learning as an ELL/kindergarten teacher by including more individual computer time for building stronger reading skills and vocabulary development. This will supplement the oral reading of stories already being done in the classroom. I will also try to increase the amount of positive experiences within the school day. I will stress to my parents the importance of early experiences for their children.
  • 44. Allard, D., Bordeau, J., & Mizoguchi, R. (2011). Addressing cultural and native language interference in second language acquisition. CALICO Journal, 28(3), 677-698. Anderson, V.A., Anderson, P., Northam, E., Jacobs, R., & Catroppa, C. (2001). Development of executive functions through late childhood and adolescence in australian sample. Developmental Neuropsychology, 8, 71-82. Campbell, F.A. Pungello, E.P., Miller-Johnson, S., Burchinal, M., & Ramey, C.T. (2001). The development of cognitive and academic abilities: Growth curves from an early childhood experiment. Developmental Psychology, 37, 231-242. Collins, A. & Halverson, R. (2010). The second educational revolution: Rethinking education in the age of technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26, 18-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1365.2729.2009.00339.x Feldman, D.E. & Knudsen, E.I. (1998). Experience dependent plasticity and the maturational glutamatergic synapsis [Review}. Neuron, 20, 1067-1071. Fox, S.E., Levitt, P., & Nelson III, C.A. (2010). How the timing and quality of early experiences influences the development of brain architecture. Child Development, 81(1), 28-40. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01380.x
  • 45. Lomicka,, L. (2006). Understanding the other: Intercultural exchange and CMC. In L. Ducate & N. Arnold (Eds.), Calling on CALL: From theory and research to new directions in foreign language teaching, San Marcos, TX: CALICO Macaruso, P., Hook, P.E., & McCabe, R. (2006). The efficacy of computer based supplementary phonics programs for advancing reading skills in at-risk elementary students. Journal of Research in Reading, 29(2), 162-172. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00282.x Noble, K.G., Wolmetz, M.E., Ochs, L.G., Farah, M.J., & McCandliss, B.D. (2006). Brain-based behavior relationships in reading acquisition are modulated by socioeconomic factors. Developmental Science, 9(6), 642-654. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00542.x Neuenschwander, R., Rothlisberger, M., Michel, E., & Roebers, C.M. (2009, April) Influence of socioeconomic status on executive functions among kindergarten children. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO Nithart, C., Demont, E., Metz-Lutz, M.N., Majerus, S., Poncelet, M., & Leybaert, J. (2011). Early contribution of phonological awareness and later influence of phonological memory throughout reading acquisition. Journal of Research in Reading, 34(3), 346- 363. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2009.01427.x Piaget, J. & Inhelder, B. (1967). The psychology of the child. Weaver, H. (Trans.). New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc. Silverman, R. & Hines, S. (2009). The effects of multi-media enhanced instruction on the vocabulary of English-language learners and non-English language learners in prekindergarten through second grade. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(2), 305-314. doi: 10.1037/a0014217
  • 46. Vaessen, A., Bertrand, D., Toth, D., Csepe, V., Faisca, L., Reis, A., & Blomert, L. (2010). Cognitive development of fluent word reading does not qualitatively differ between transparent and opaque orthographies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102(4), 827-842. doi: 10.1037/a0019465 Wagner, R.K., Torgesen, K., & Rashotte, C.A. (1994). Development pf reading related phonological processing abilities: New evidence of a bidirectional causality from a latent variable longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 30, 73- 87. Wise, B.W., Ring, J., & Olson, R.K. (2000). Individual differences in gains from computer assisted remedial reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 197-235.

Editor's Notes

  1. Children use all of their senses to understand their surroundings.
  2. Everything a child sees, hears, touches, tastes, or smells builds background knowledge for attaching future learning.
  3. The brain is constantly sorting information, deleting information, and adding new information. As the child learns something new, the brain attaches this new learning to the background knowledge. If the new knowledge doesn’t fit, the brain changes to add the new knowledge.
  4. Everything a child does or witnesses affects their development. There are positive experiences that include family with involved parents…
  5. Positive experiences at school with teachers and friends…
  6. Positive social experiences…
  7. Then, there are the negative experiences that affect so many of our children today. With economic times being rough on many families, some children are experiencing being homeless…
  8. Some children witness parents using and abusing legal and illegal drugs. Some children suffered drug abuse while in the womb…
  9. Children from low SES backgrounds are usually not exposed to many opportunities such as going to museums, zoos, libraries, vacations… These opportunities create background knowledge for developing good reading comprehension skills. These children usually come from single parent households. These children do not have a lot of exposure to books and are not read to very often. The parents are not usually very well educated and are working several jobs just for survival.
  10. Accelerated periods of development are known to happen between the ages of two to five years and once again during puberty. (Anderson, Anderson, Northam, Jacobs, & Catroppa, 2001; Dawson & Guare, 2010; Zelazo & Muller, 2002)
  11. A student’s SES has an impact on the development of their executive function. It has been shown that students from low SES tend to have less well developed executive functioning skills by kindergarten when compared to their counterparts with higher SES backgrounds. (Neuenschwander, Rothlisberger, Michel, & Roebers, 2009)
  12. Children use different reading strategies to decode words and understand meaning. These strategies change as the child practices reading and gets older. (Lindberg, Lonnemann, Linkersdorfer, Biermeyer, Mahler, Hasselhorn, & Lehman, 2011) The development for decoding words is different for each age and skill level. It is important for educators to understand this as they teach reading. Administrators need to understand this as well.
  13. All children learning to read fluently use the same cognitive skill components to develop reading fluency regardless of opaque or transparent orthography. (Vaessen, Bertrand, Toth, Csepe, Faisca, Reis, & Blomert, 2010)
  14. Failure to understand or develop any phonemic skill will result in difficulty in fluency and understanding in reading. These skills include the ability to break words down into segments and sounds and then put them back together again. It also includes being able to put words in correct order in a sentence and letters in correct order in a word.
  15. These abilities change to phonological memory abilities by the end of first grade.
  16. Certain executive functions are developmental and come with time and maturity. Other executive functions depend on the child’s environment and experiences to properly develop. The family SES also plays an important role in the development of executive function in children.
  17. fMRIs show that as the SES level of the child increased, the brain behavior decreased. These results imply that the responsiveness of the visual-orthographic region of the brain is impacted by the child’s environment including the literacy makeup of their environment and by the child’s own phonological skills. (Noble, Wolmetz, Ochs, Farah, & McCandless, 2006)
  18. Smartboards, iPads, iPods, laptops, desktops just to name a few. New technologies create learning opportunities that allow students to learn anything from or about anywhere in most places in the world. Students are able to collaborate with other students living in other cultures.
  19. Teachers need to be prepared to continue to meet the technological needs of their young students. It has been found that students using computer assisted instruction do better on phonics based reading instruction than students not participating. Later studies also confirmed the same results. (Cassady & Smith, 2005; Macaruso, et al., 2006; Mitchell & Fox, 2001)
  20. Schools in the United States have become very multicultural over the years. Many schools have more than two languages other than English being spoken by students. It is important for teachers to get to know the culture and language of their English Language Learners. This will help the teacher better understand how to prepare lessons that are individualized for each student.
  21. Schools are becoming more multicultural each year. Students learning a second language may make many errors as they translate from one language to another in speaking and writing. Errors in sentence structure, translation, and verb tense can happen. These errors in translation are known as “interference.” These errors should be corrected immediately to prevent misunderstandings when learning English.
  22. Studies have shown the importance of using both methods to support each other in developing vocabulary skills of ELLs. (Silverman & Hines, 2009)