Category: Children

Immersion Learning – Seal Rescue

28 Feb 2012

Immersion Learning – Seal Rescue. In 2002, Dr. Robert Ballard and Dr. Stephen Coan founded Immersion Learning™ — a non-profit science education organization that brings ocean adventures and discoveries from Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, the University of Rhode Island and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to kids in classrooms, after-school settings and … More Immersion Learning – Seal Rescue

Reflection 1: learning to listen also means to learn to be heard

25 Dec 2011

// Reflection 1: learning to listen also means to learn to be heard I have began to read two texts that deal with entirely different parts of learning but seem somehow very complementary. The first is The hundred languages of children, the Reggio Emilia approach – advanced reflections, edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini and George … More Reflection 1: learning to listen also means to learn to be heard

My research

17 Dec 2011

How is taking my family down to Nicaragua related to new media and education? Or how did my research take me there? Every society that depends on procreation for its survival must take into account in its social organization that children initially require a great deal of care (Matthews, 2007). I have been studying the … More My research

A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design

24 Nov 2011

A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design.   A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn Sydney recently unveiled its newest, biggest, and, by all indications, funsiest public playground–a 43,000-square-foot waterlogged wonderland designed to “promote learning and experimentation through acceptable risk taking,” the designers, ASPECT Studios, say. Acceptable risk-taking? … More A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design

For kids, high sensitivity to stress isn’t necessarily bad – TIME Healthland

29 Oct 2011

Generally speaking, past research has shown that children who are highly sensitive to stress tend to be at higher risk for health and behavioral problems compared with their less delicate peers. Yet, a new study finds that sensitivity in of itself may not necessarily be what primes children for struggles. According to new research published … More For kids, high sensitivity to stress isn’t necessarily bad – TIME Healthland

Reggio Children | About

27 Oct 2011

In February 2006, on the initiative of the municipal administration of Reggio Emilia in collaboration with Reggio Children, the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres, and the Friends of Reggio Children Association – a plurality of identities generated by the same culture of childhood strongly rooted in the city of Reggio Emilia – the Loris … More Reggio Children | About

The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us | Psych Central

23 Oct 2011

The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us By Jeffrey Kluger Reviewed by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.   I am what science calls a singleton. And according to G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist, professor and the first president of the American Psychological Association, I am without a doubt narcissistic, spoiled and … More The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us | Psych Central