The Knowledge Gap

The Knowledge Gap
Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0735213569

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

Technology Tools for Students with Autism

Technology Tools for Students with Autism
Author: Katharina Irene Boser
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598572629

Your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community.

Technology Tools for Young Learners

Technology Tools for Young Learners
Author: Leni Von Blanckensee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131792035X

This book demonstrates how students in grades K through 3 can use technology tools in ways that support their learning and development. It provides detailed examples of activities, projects, and lessons which you can adapt to your own classroom. This book demonstrates how young students can use technology to create original work as an integral part of the teaching and learning process. These technology tools and activities will help your young students develop language and writing skills; learn how to observe, document, and organize; learn to communicate effectively; distinguish phonetic sounds; explore family and community; engage in cooperative learning; and much more. The technology tools described in this book support a constructivist, student centered classroom.

Technology Tools for Young Learners

Technology Tools for Young Learners
Author: Leni Von Blanckensee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317920368

This book demonstrates how students in grades K through 3 can use technology tools in ways that support their learning and development. It provides detailed examples of activities, projects, and lessons which you can adapt to your own classroom. This book demonstrates how young students can use technology to create original work as an integral part of the teaching and learning process. These technology tools and activities will help your young students develop language and writing skills; learn how to observe, document, and organize; learn to communicate effectively; distinguish phonetic sounds; explore family and community; engage in cooperative learning; and much more. The technology tools described in this book support a constructivist, student centered classroom.

Being Participatory: Researching with Children and Young People

Being Participatory: Researching with Children and Young People
Author: Imelda Coyne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319712284

This book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported with practical examples from international research studies. Our aim is to encourage more participatory research with children and young people on all matters that affect their lives. This book illustrates innovative ways of being participatory and sheds new light on involvement strategies that play to children’s and young people’s competencies. Participatory research is based on the recognition of children and young people as active contributors rather than objects of research. Participatory researchers support and value the voices of children and young people in all matters that concern them. Core to participatory research practice is a strengths-based approach that aims to promote the active engagement of children and young people in all stages of research, from inception to implementation and beyond. Engagement of children and young people requires the use of creative, participatory methods, tools and involvement strategies to reveal children’s competencies. This book shares knowledge about creative participatory techniques that can enable and promote children’s ways of expressing their views and experiences. The book provides guidance on appropriate techniques that reduce the power differential in the adult-child relationship and which optimise children’s abilities to participate in research. This book is targeted at researchers, academics, and practitioners who need guidance on what tools are available, how the tools can be used, advantages and challenges, and how best to involve children in all stages of a research project. It will provide several examples of how children can have an active participatory role in research. There is increasing interest in involving children as co-researchers but little guidance on how this can be done. This book fills a this gap by addressing all of these issues and by providing worked examples from leading researchers and academics.

Contemporary Challenges in Teaching Young Children

Contemporary Challenges in Teaching Young Children
Author: Gayle Mindes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429857489

Contemporary Challenges in Teaching Young Children provides both veteran and aspiring early childhood educators with the information and tools they need to build on their understanding of developmentally appropriate practice. Teachers face many challenges, including family configuration, social and political stressors related to accountability requirements, funding shortages, and the resulting need to teach with fewer resources. This innovative book focuses exclusively on problem-solving at the classroom level and fosters creative methods of ensuring best practices are in place for all children, including those with limited experience in formal social settings and a lack of self-regulatory behaviors. Drawing on current research and their own wealth of experience, expert contributors cover topics from the critical importance of social-emotional learning to culturally responsive teaching to using technology to empower teachers and learners. Written in accessible, non-technical language, this book addresses complex factors affecting child development, guiding readers through the best strategies for tackling real problems in their practice.

Educating Young Children With and Without Exceptionalities

Educating Young Children With and Without Exceptionalities
Author: Tachelle Banks
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641135956

Early childhood education (ECE) has always been intertwined with the use of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP). To support excellence in ECE, it is critical how the knowledge about individual children and child development principles combined with the knowledge of effective early learning practices. Effective early childhood education involves an interdisciplinary collaborative process that is influenced by many factors. We present these aforementioned realities in Educating Young Children With and Without Exceptionalities: New Perspectives. In addition, we argue that general and special educators need to focus on applying new knowledge to better address critical issues that advance the field of educator preparation and improve educational outcomes for young children. Early childhood research confirms the need for intensive intervention and remedial education—we need to avoid approaches that are “too little” or “too late.” Also proven to yield positive results for children are practices familiar to early childhood educators. These practices include relationship-based teaching and learning; partnering with families; adapting teaching for children from different backgrounds and for individual children; active, meaningful, and connected learning; and smaller class sizes. Evidence of the benefits of these practices suggests that they should be extended more widely into the elementary grades.

Starting Strong Empowering Young Children in the Digital Age

Starting Strong Empowering Young Children in the Digital Age
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2023-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264901612

Digitalisation is transforming education as well as social and economic life, with implications for childhood. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), with its immense potential to shape children’s early development, learning and well-being, can play a major role in addressing the opportunities and risks that digitalisation brings to young children.

Apps, Technology and Younger Learners

Apps, Technology and Younger Learners
Author: Natalia Kucirkova
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317402464

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges, potential and theoretical possibilities of apps and considers the processes of change for education and home learning environments. Drawing together a diverse team of international contributors, it addresses the specific features, context of use and content of apps to uncover the importance of these tools for young children’s learning. Apps, Technology and Younger Learners focuses on ways that apps support early years and primary school learning, connect various learning spaces and engage children in a range of edutainment and knowledge-building activities. In each chapter, the current state of knowledge and key research questions in the field for future study are identified, with clear messages provided at the end of each chapter. Focusing on empirical studies and strong theoretical frameworks, this book covers four key parts: Understanding the learning potential of children’s apps; Key app challenges; Empirical evidence; Future avenues. This book is an essential guide for educators, post-graduate students, researchers and all those interested in the advantages or challenges that may result from integrating apps into early education.

Technology in Retrospect

Technology in Retrospect
Author: Richard A. Diem
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1617350400

January 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most famous three minutes of television history. It was during half-time of the 1984 Super Bowl that APPLE show cased its new Macintosh Computer in an avant-guard commercial. In the following three weeks sales of the new computer, in both the public and private sectors, took off leading some to note this occasion as the "true" start of the information age. At the same time schools joined this so-called information revolution and began to use the new technology, in various forms, in a much more serious manner. Given both the changing nature of technology, as well as its classroom applications, over the past quarter century this work's goal is to capture the historical trends of both use and application of information technology in the social studies during this era. This is done by providing a retrospective view , from 1984 through 2009 , of where we've been, where we are, and a view of new tools and strategies and possible studies that are emerging that can enhance our understanding of the effects that technology has and will have on the social studies.