Month: December 2020

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Digital Librarian’s Survival Toolkit & Epic Ebook of Web Tools & Apps–FREE crowdsourced guides.

The Epic Ebook of Web Tools & Apps is a 250+ page FREE guide crowdsourced by 50+ educators. Please use this static link to share the ebook:https://librarian.rocks/epicebookofwebtoolsandapps

The Digital Librarian’s Survival Toolkit is a 200+ page FREE guide crowdsourced by 35+ school librarians. Please use this static link to share the ebook: https://librarian.rocks/digitallibrariansurvivaltoolkit

Both resources are filled with video tutorials, text, screenshots, and links.You can find more free resources on Kristina Uihlein Holzweiss’s website: http://www.bunheadwithducttape.com/

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Keep them Curious–Asking the Right Questions

Nurturing a Child’s Curiousity

New research shows that the more curious children are, the better they do academically in reading and math once they enter school.

https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/3505-nurturing-your-young-child-s-curiosity

Ask Open-Ended Questions

The why and how to use open-ended questions with children.

https://aussiechildcarenetwork.com.au/articles/teaching-children/using-open-ended-questions-with-children

https://www.under5s.co.nz/shop/Hot+Topics+Articles/Child+Development/Benefits+of+asking+young+kids+open-ended+questions.html

Gain Language Skills and Learn About STEM Through Storybook Conversations

Check out a great guide for using dialogic reading practices to do just that with Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. https://stemie.fpg.unc.edu/sites/stemie.fpg.unc.edu/files/Storybook-Very%20Hungry%20Caterpillar-Carle.pdf

This is just one resource available at Stemie website: https://stemie.fpg.unc.edu/

Leading Children in Hands-On Exploration

http://resourcesforearlylearning.org/educators/module/20/15/75/#:~:text=Because%20they%20usually%20cannot%20be%20answered%20with%20just,observations%20and%20ideas%2C%20and%20to%20extend%20their%20investigations

BE ENGAGING – Help them to use their words!

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Navigating Youth Media

As the forward in this report states, “Young people are navigating their developing
identities in the midst of tremendous social and technological change. They are increasingly relying on digital media to connect, learn, and play.” This initiative is seeking to identify current media habits, gaps and ways media can better benefit youth.

This report is the first publication of an initiative called By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences. Media production by youth, with youth, and for youth describes approaches to engaging public media’s “missing audience” of tweens and teens
who fall between content offerings for young children and adults. This literature review is a precursor to the full report, which will represent the ideas of a diverse group of youth ages 10-17 being interviewed at the time of this publication.

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Blog post: Let’s Talk About Public Media and the Next Generation

More about By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audience

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Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report

Now that living in a virtual world seems to be a part of this so called new normal–media literacy is even more important to even our youngest.

Executive Summary

The TEC (Technology in Early Childhood) Center at Erikson Institute in partnership with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) was awarded a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) in 2018 to host two national forum meetings to discuss media literacy in early childhood with experts and practitioners with the objective of developing materials to support the understanding and teaching of media literacy in early childhood.

This report recognizes and builds upon the extensive media literacy educational materials, books, research, and policies that have been developed to date. The framework builds upon many existing media literacy-focused frameworks including Teaching Tolerance’s Digital Literacy Framework (2017) and Project Look Sharp’s Process of Media Literacy (2018). The child development and children’s media use findings bring together decades of research from various fields in order to understand media literacy in early childhood. The cultural considerations, activities, and tips highlight existing educational materials and concerns raised by practitioners who serve children in a variety of settings. The barriers and solutions to sustaining this work shed light on the challenges practitioners and caregivers face daily. The intention of this Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report is to utilize media literacy, child development, and early education knowledge to develop educational materials and advocate for support for media literacy education in early childhood.

This report provides:

1. an updated definition of media literacy in early childhood;

2. an explanation of developmentally appropriate media literacy education for children under age 8;

3. background on the developmental abilities and expectations of young children with regards to media use and media literacy; and

4. guidelines to support media literacy in early childhood.

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