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This document provides a summary of key points from E.D. Hirsch's book "Cultural Literacy" and research on improving literacy. It discusses how Hirsch argues that focusing on building students' background knowledge and content mastery, rather than vague skills or motivations, is most effective for improving literacy. It also notes that reading comprehension depends heavily on domain-specific knowledge, and that teaching abstract reading strategies without background knowledge has high opportunity costs by depriving students of learning.
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The document outlines the Global Education First Initiative by the UN Secretary-General which aims to ensure quality, relevant and transformative education for all. It discusses the current state of global education, highlighting that 61 million children are still not in school. The initiative will rally actors to deliver universal primary education by 2015, improve learning quality, and foster global citizenship through education. It identifies the key barriers to education as costs, lack of classrooms, and humanitarian crises.
This document provides an overview of inclusive education beyond formal school settings. It includes several articles that discuss non-formal education programs and initiatives in various countries.
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The document discusses a football team that loses half of its games each year. The coaches focus on finding complex plays each week instead of mastering the basic fundamentals of blocking. As a result, the players are confused and never fully learn the plays. The solution is for coaches to stop introducing new plays and instead focus on teaching effective blocking techniques until the players have mastered them. This will lead to improved performance by the team.
This document provides a summary of key points from E.D. Hirsch's book "Cultural Literacy" and research on improving literacy. It discusses how Hirsch argues that focusing on building students' background knowledge and content mastery, rather than vague skills or motivations, is most effective for improving literacy. It also notes that reading comprehension depends heavily on domain-specific knowledge, and that teaching abstract reading strategies without background knowledge has high opportunity costs by depriving students of learning.
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The document summarizes Jamaica's child care system and the history and role of early childhood education. It provides details on the types of child care available, including basic schools, day care centers, and government infant schools. It notes that over 80% of preschoolers are enrolled in basic schools and under 20% in public infant programs. The document also discusses the underlying philosophy, accessibility, training requirements for ECE professionals, and roles of early childhood educators as models, guides, friends and inspirers for children.
The document summarizes Jamaica's child care system and the history and role of early childhood education. It provides details on the types of child care available, including basic schools, day care centers, and government infant schools. It notes that over 80% of preschoolers are enrolled in basic schools and under 20% in public infant programs. The document also discusses the underlying philosophy, accessibility, training requirements for ECE professionals, and roles of early childhood educators as models, guides, friends and inspirers for children.
The document summarizes Jamaica's child care system and the history and role of early childhood education. It provides details on the types of child care available, including basic schools, day care centers, and government infant schools. It notes that over 80% of preschoolers are enrolled in basic schools and under 20% in public infant programs. The document also discusses the underlying philosophy, accessibility, training requirements for ECE professionals, and roles of early childhood educators as models, guides, friends and inspirers for children.
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1) The program aims to provide Montessori education to all Australian children regardless of location or socioeconomic status, and help break cycles of welfare dependency.
2) It partners with local organizations to provide Montessori programs for children aged 3-6 and 6-9 in the Torres Strait.
3) Using a Montessori approach, the programs focus on developing children's independence, concentration, and social/emotional skills through practical activities connected to their culture and environment.
4) The programs emphasize long-term commitment, community engagement, and empowering families to support children
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This presentation is of interest to preK teachers and school and district leaders, and early childhood faculty, early childhood special education faculty, and curriculum and instruction department chairs.
Originally broadcast: September 12, 2019
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1) The environment plays a key role in supporting children's development and learning. It should meet individual needs, foster independent learning through play, and provide indoor and outdoor learning opportunities.
2) High-quality environments have caring relationships between adults and children, support emotional well-being through predictable routines and consistently applied rules, and have high expectations for children.
3) Research studies like EPPE have found that high-quality pre-school experiences provide long-term benefits, especially for disadvantaged children. Key elements of quality include educational goals, responsive adult-child interactions, and a safe, stimulating physical environment.
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
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Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
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Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
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Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
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* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
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Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
GlobalLogic Java Community Webinar #18 “How to Improve Web Application Perfor...GlobalLogic Ukraine
Під час доповіді відповімо на питання, навіщо потрібно підвищувати продуктивність аплікації і які є найефективніші способи для цього. А також поговоримо про те, що таке кеш, які його види бувають та, основне — як знайти performance bottleneck?
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In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
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Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
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As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
1. TITLES HERE
Inspiring life long learners
with Technology
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Linda S. Mavrinac
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267.975.1236
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Up to 3rd grade, children are learning to read. After 3rd
grade, children learn from reading
• Study after study shows children unable to read at grade level by the
end of 3rd grade are more likely to:
– Drop-out
– Go to prison or juvenile detention (70% of inmate in US read at
or below a 4th grade level)
– Have an unwanted pregnancy
– On Public Assistance
– Unemployed
– ENDLESS CIRCLE
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Two-thirds of fourth graders aren’t reading at
grade level, according to the National
Assessment of Educational Progress, a
test that’s administered to a large sample
of children across the country every two
years and is referred to as our nation’s
report card.
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5. Early Literacy is a great long term investment
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Perry Preschool Project
From 1962–1967, at ages 3 and 4, children were randomly divided into a
program group that received a high-quality preschool program based
on HighScope's learning approach and a comparison group who
received no preschool program. In the study's most recent phase, 97%
of the study participants still living were interviewed at age 40.
The study found that adults at age 40 who had the preschool
program had higher earnings, were more likely to hold a job, had
committed fewer crimes, and were more likely to have graduated
from high school than adults who did not have preschool.
http://www.highscope.org/content.asp?contentid=219
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In 2001 dollars per study participant, average cost of the program was
$14,716 per participant.
For this cost, the program yielded public benefits of $105,324 per
participant, a cost benefit ratio of 7.16 to 1.
Benefits per participant were:
• $68,584 saved by the potential victims of crimes never committed,
based on the typical in-court and out-of-court settlements for such crimes
• $15,240 in reduced justice system costs
• $10,537 brought in by increased taxes paid by preschool-program
participants because they had higher earnings
• $7,488 saved in schooling, due primarily to reduced need for special
education services, and despite increased college costs for preschool-
program participants
• $3,475 in reduced welfare costs
The program was an extremely good economic investment
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7. Early Education Studies
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• The Chicago Child-Parent Centers (CPCs) provide comprehensive educational
support and family support to economically disadvantaged children and their parents.
The guiding principle of the program is that by providing a school-based, stable
learning environment during preschool, in which parents are active and consistent
participants in their child's education, scholastic success will follow.
http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?programid=98
• Under the direction of UA education professor Lisa Lenhart, the reading program —
known locally as Akron Ready Steps — is a partnership between UA and Akron
Summit Community Action, Inc. The program aims to increase literacy skills among
preschool children and will target children in low-income neighborhoods. Through
grant funding, the program will provide training and support for teachers who serve
300 at-risk children in 16 Head Start classrooms throughout Akron.
http://akronreadysteps.ning.com/
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EARLY
EDUCATION IS
IMPORTANT
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9. Kansas believes inHERE Education
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Early
• Kansas State Department of Education requires an Early Reading
Assessment (Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade). The purpose of
administering an early reading assessment is to identify and focus on the
critical years when the development of reading takes place.
• 2006 creation of The Kansas Preschool Program
• 2009 revised the Kansas Early Learning: Building the Foundation
for Successful Children framework of all professionals working with
young children
• 2011 The statewide implementation of Johnson County Library’s
successful early literacy program, 6 by 6: Ready to Read was launched
through the development of a planning team including representatives
from all the regional library systems, Johnson County Public Library
(JCL) and Wichita Public Library
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10. School Readiness
TITLES HERE
• Common Core Standards
• Kansas Early Learning: Building the
Foundation for Successful Children
• Head Start Frameworks
• 6 by 6: Ready to Read
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11. 5 Dimensions of Development
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• Social & Emotional Development
• Language Development (auditory,
verbal & visual)
• Motor Development (fine & gross)
• Cognition & General Knowledge
• Learning Style
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12. Tech and Development
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• Social Development - Computers are intrinsically motivating for young
children, and contribute to cognitive and social development (National
Association for the Education of Young Children [NAEYC], 1996).
• Language Development - Computer play encourages longer, more
complex speech and the development of fluency (Davidson & Wright, 1994).
• Motor Development - Lack of exercise and obesity are serious problems
that need to be addressed during both in-school and out-of-school hours.
On a typical day children two to seven years old spend an average of 11
minutes using a computer, and more than three hours watching television
and videos (Roberts, Foehr, Rideout, & Brodie, 1999). Screen time
(including TV, computer, and video games) should be limited to a maximum
of one to two hours per day for young children (American Academy of
Pediatrics, 2000; Healy, 1999). Vigorous physical activities and play should
be encourage
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• Cognition & General Knowledge - Compared to children in a similar
classroom without computer experience, three- and four-year-olds who
used computers with supporting activities had significantly greater gains in
verbal and nonverbal skills, problem solving, abstraction, and conceptual
skills (Haugland, 1992). Similarly, third-grade children who used both
manipulatives and computer programs showed more sophistication in
classification and logical thinking than children who used only manipulatives
(Clements & Nastasi, 1993).
• Learning Styles - Technology offers additional ways to learn, and to
demonstrate learning. For some children who have unique learning styles,
computers can reveal hidden strengths. At the computer, children can
approach learning from a variety of perspectives and follow various paths to
a goal (Clements, 1999). Poor concentration and attention problems can be
addressed by limiting screen time, helping children focus on the task, and
choosing software that does not employ excessively stimulating noises or
constantly moving graphics.
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The position of NAEYC & the Fred Rogers Center:
Technology and interaction media are tools that can
promote effective learning and development when they
are used intentionally by early childhood educators,
within the framework of developmentally appropriate
practice (NAEYC 2009a), to support learning goals
established for individual children.
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15. Story time
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Bring new life to Nursery Rhymes &
Fairy Tales
• Turn story time into ―Movie time‖ by
projecting ebook on wall.
• Encourage children to ―read‖ along with the
story
• Read different versions
• Extend story time
• http://www.csus.edu/ier/reading.html
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Websites
• http://www.starfall.com/
• http://www.storylineonline.net/
• http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
• http://www.speakaboos.com/
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17. All eBooks are not equal
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Jeremy and Kimberly Brueck, in May 22, 2012 wrote a blog:
3 Do’s & Don’ts for using eBooks with children
DO:
• Look for eBooks with content that has direct ties to your curriculum and student’s
personal experiences.
• Allow students opportunities to self-select eBooks for independent and shared
reading experiences.
• Consider the role space plays in the reading experience and design a quality-
learning environment for browsing/reading eBooks in the classroom.
DON’T:
• Select eBooks with multimedia or interactivity that is extraneous and/or not
relevant to the story.
• Use an eBook with students until you have thoroughly previewed and evaluated its
potential as an instructional resource.
• Underestimate the “WOW” factor that eBooks bring to the table. Use their
natural engagement to capture reluctant reader’s interest and motivate
them.
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• Highlighting of words as they are read
• Pronunciation of individual words
• Ability to control the pace
• Hot spots have to aid in the fluency and
comprehension of the story
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TITLES time
• Take a Library event and turn it into a story with
PowerPoint
• Rewrite 3 Little Pigs as 3 Little Wolves(Kerpoof)
• Programs
– StoryJumper
– Storybook Weaver
– Kid Works Deluxe
• Publish your novels
– http://www.youblisher.com/
– http://www.cutepdf.com/
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Homework
Write a story
– Stationary Studio
– Story it
– Kid Pix 3D
– Plain sheet of paper
– Story Starters
Print out stories written on computer
– Kid Works Deluxe
– Storybook Weaver
– Stationary Studio
– Kerpoof
– Storyjumper
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• Publish
– Laminate pages
– Use Sheet protectors put into a binder
– Shelf ―books‖ for children to read
– Facebook
– Library website
– Youtube
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Learning
• Use projector/whiteboard
– Promote Summer
– Promote Special Program
– Introduce new programs
• Examples Millie’s Math House, Bailey’s Book
House, Trudy’s Time & Place House, Sammy’s
Science House, Tooney Lagoon, Math Doodles
(I’ll show screen shots)
– Show something beyond their reading level
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30. ExtendTITLESLearning
the HERE
• Print out a My Friend page and make a
book
• Make friend sock puppets
• Make my friend masks
• Review the supplemental materials
provided with software
• Give parents homework
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31. Choosing Technology
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The most important component choosing
technology for your young patrons is…
YOU
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• Make an effort to learn new technologies
• Software & Apps must be
– Engaging
– Challenging
– Interactive
– Encourage Creative
– Encourage Problem Solving (Deeper Learning)
– Support the child’s home language and culture
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computer programs….
• Children’s Technology Review
– http://childrenstech.com/
• NAEYC
– http://www.naeyc.org/tyc/pastissues
• Center for Children & Technology
– http://cct.edc.org/
• Girls Tech
– http://www.girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu/index.html
• Center for Research on Interactive Technology,
Television & Children
– http://www.utexas.edu/research/critc/
• Center for Children & Technology
– http://cct.edc.org/
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34. Be a ResourceHEREParents
TITLES to
• Extend the learning to home by sharing ebooks sites to parents (nothing
replaces read a book on Mom’s lap, but reading a ebook in the car on the
way to grocery store and talking with Mom about the book is much better
I’m going to turn this car around)
• Share information on Facebook & Newsletter
• Use resources from software.
• Websites:
– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/
– http://www.ldonline.org/
– http://familyfun.go.com/
– http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgparents_span.php
– http://www.webmd.com/parenting/default.htm
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EARLY
EDUCATION IS
IMPORTANT
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Literacy
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Literacy
• Over 50 educational titles in 7 curriculum
• Aligned to Head Start & State Standards
• Age Appropriate activities for Children
age 2-10+
• Access to educational material developed
by publisher
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38. ELF Reading & Reference
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Premium Version of ELF
ELF is a channeled browser that features more than 100 websites
that are constantly monitored
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39. ELF Reading & Reference
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Premium Version of ELF
Subscription to
Encyclopedia Britannica – Kids Edition
The classic and comprehensive reference tool
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40. ELF Reading & Reference
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Premium Version of ELF
EXCLUSIVE subscription to
Speakaboos
• Over 170 exclusive digital storybooks
in for kids ages 3-8
• Exclusive to ELF Reading & Reference
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41. Ebooks are not equal
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Speakaboos is advised by Dr. Alice Wilder, national expert on
early education and reading
Speakaboos’ interactive titles represent the only library of e-books in the industry
backed by a proven pedagogical scaffolding of best-practices relative to design,
development, and end-user experience.
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42. Brody my great great nephew
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43. Questions
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AWE
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267.975.1236
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