The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff,amazon.com
The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
He believed that from the earliest age humans build mental models to explain the phenomena—a speeding car, a cat’s raspy tongue—that surround us. As we grow older our experiences collide with these models, forcing us to adjust the models to accommodate our ever-changing reality. As such, child’s play is the act of a child inventing and reinventing
... See moreJoi Ito • Whiplash
man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that,it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond... See more
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The first is the fact that although it took our species roughly 2,000 years to make the cognitive breakthroughs necessary to learn to read with an alphabet, today our children have to reach those same insights about print in roughly 2,000 days. The second concerns the evolutionary and educational implications of having a “rearranged” brain for lear
... See moreMaryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid
babies have rich, sophisticated expectations about the world—maybe more than people give them credit for.” Babies, she argues, “use what they already know about the world to motivate or drive further learning, to figure out what they should learn more about.”