Tag: parents
Week 9 Response
by ccolgan on March 2, 2016 11:45 pm
I’m taking Beyond Bits and Atoms with Dr. Blikstein, so I’ve been very immersed in the Maker Movement, teaching coding to kids, and building animals with the laser cutter this quarter. As an assignment for that course, I visited a maker space at Barron Park Elementary School, part of the PAUSD. Smita Kolhatkar, the head of… Read more Week 9 Response
Week 8: Informal Science Learning
by ccolgan on February 24, 2016 10:55 pm
This week’s readings looked at how scientific habits can be formed, fostered, and adapted. Crowley et al.’s look at parents’ explanations to their children featured specific, though “inconclusive,” evidence of its findings that parents explain scientific phenomena more to boys than to girls. Parents have go beyond simply bring their children to the museum, they… Read more Week 8: Informal Science Learning
Week 8 Discussion - Juan G
by juang7 on February 24, 2016 9:23 pm
In regards to parents explaining more to boys than girls when it comes to science, recently we have seen toy companies and the media trying to demonstrate the importance of attracting girls to the science field, I wonder the effects of these on the average parent perspective. Challenging parents’ ideas becomes even harder in cultures that… Read more Week 8 Discussion - Juan G
Week 6 Discussion - Juan G
by juang7 on February 10, 2016 9:34 pm
It is clear that peer interactions enhance children and adolescents creative writing abilities. Children and adolescents tend to build on each other’s ideas and get motivated by having an audience. However, I am thinking about the role of parents in this area; I wonder that if instead of enhancing creative writing, parents might limit it because they may have the impulse of… Read more Week 6 Discussion - Juan G
Week 3
by nhardson on January 20, 2016 11:41 pm
I found the Hirsh-Pasek article incredibly compelling due to its potential real world applications. Particularly, I came away wondering how we could assure that parents and app developers had access to/considered this information when making choices about apps for children. As the article mentioned, the potential effects on the achievement gap that could be achieved by… Read more Week 3
