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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Fertilizers and toxins for a smart baby
Regardless of their genes, you can help your children mobilize their intelligence as fully as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, or the most successful innovators working today. Just how do you grow a smart baby? We’re thinking in terms of soil, so it makes sense to formulate…
The decline of open-ended play
This kind of open-ended play was fertilizing their brains with the behavioral equivalent of Miracle-Gro. That sentence might seem strange. Open-ended play? Not “open-ended purchase of electronic educational toys”? Not French lessons, followed by hours of militant drilling?…
The play that builds impulse control
the type of play that gives all the cognitive benefits is a type that focuses on impulse control and self-regulation—those executive-function behaviors discussed in the previous chapter as ingredients of intelligence, revealed by the cookie experiment. The data are so clear…
Mature dramatic play and Tools of the Mind
The type of play is called mature dramatic play, or MDP. To get the benefits in those bullet points, MDP has to be engaged in many hours a day. This has been codified into a school program called Tools of the Mind, one of the few programs of its type that has been studied in…
Vygotsky: imaginative play teaches self-control
Vygotsky was one of the few researchers of his era to study dramatic play in children. He predicted that the ability of the under-5 crowd to engage in imaginative activities was going to be a better gauge of academic success than any other activity—including quantitative and…
Inside a Tools of the Mind classroom
Most Tools of the Mind classrooms look like the equivalent of a late-Christmas-morning living room. Legos are scattered everywhere. Sandboxes are sprinkled around the room. There are jigsaw puzzles to figure out. Blocks with which to build entire new worlds. Clothes for…
Parenting is not a race
Write this across your heart before your child comes into the world: Parenting is not a race. Kids are not proxies for adult success. Competition can be inspiring, but brands of it can wire your child’s brain in a toxic way. Comparing your kids with your friends’ kids will not…
A playroom full of choices
There may be as many different types of playrooms as there are families, but every one of them should have the following design element: lots of choices. A place for drawing. A place for painting. Musical instruments. A wardrobe hanging with costumes. Blocks. Picture books…
Epigrams On Programming
Programming as punning
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
How Books Will Become Machines
What is a regulated representation
A representation is a man-made material document that stands for something else, typically a complex, highly dimensional event or phenomenon. Example: A picture of a scene, a sculpture of a Greek hero, a theater play, a novel. To avoid any misunderstanding we shall make clear…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Alternatives to gold model open access
Are there no alternatives to this commodified, market-oriented logic currently in play in scientific publishing? Will this logic (and its serious disadvantages) be always dominant, regardless if the journal is "proprietary" or open access? Well, not necessarily: even within the…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Montessori's legacy: independence and repetition
Montessori understood that it is sometimes much easier to do something for children than it is to take the time and energy to teach them to do it for themselves. But she also believed that for children to grow and develop skills, the adults in their lives need to make…
Play and language build on each other
Like Piaget, Vygotsky believed that much learning takes place when children play. He believed that language and development build on each other. When children play, they constantly use language. They determine the conditions of the make-believe. They discuss roles and objects…
Make-believe play builds self-regulation
While much is known about the positive effects of make-believe play on children’s social, early literacy, and early mathematical development, research has shown that make-believe play also has positive effects on the development of self-regulation skills in young children…