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| Children's Issues | ||
| A great Internet source for information about a wide range of children's issues, this Web site includes extensive links to education, safety, the media, health, parenting, children around the world, and many other topics. ( http://www.childrennow.org/index.html ) | ||
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| Prevention Programs | ||
| This Web site includes extensive links to a variety of prevention programs for improving the lives of children, including community programs, the Children's Defense Fund, delinquency programs, strengthening America's families, and others. ( http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/jjclearinghouse/jj19.html ) | ||
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| Trends in the Well-Being of Children and Youth | ||
| This site has extensive information about many trends related to children and adolescents, such as living in poverty neighborhoods, mortality, education, and achievement. ( http://aspe.hhs.gov/ ) | ||
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| Children Now | ||
| An important voice for children, this organization uses research and the mass media to make the well-being of children a top national priority. At this Web site, you can enter your e-mail address and receive a free monthly newsletter about children's issues. ( http://www.childrennow.org/ ) | ||
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| Social Policy | ||
| The Web site of the Children's Defense Fund contains updates about social policy and children. It has links to other sites about improving the conditions of children living in poverty. ( http://www.childrensdefense.org/ ) | ||
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| The Jean Piaget Society | ||
| This Web site provides a biography of Piaget and presentations from the Jean Piaget Society Annual Symposium from 1995 to the present. ( http://www.piaget.org/ ) | ||
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| Symbolic Thinking | ||
| This site examines young children's symbolic thinking during the early childhood years. ( http://www.sesameworkshop.org/parents/advice/article.php?contentId=740 ) | ||
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| Piaget and Education | ||
| This site offers specific strategies for how to effectively teach students at varying stages of cognitive development. ( http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piagtuse.html ) | ||
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| Challenges to Piaget | ||
| This Web site offers a revised version of two lectures presented by Robert Campbell of Clemson University. Information includes a thorough discussion and critique of Piaget's ideas and theories. ( http://hubcap.clemson.edu/%7Ecampber/piaget.html ) | ||
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| Scaffolding | ||
| Read about the application of scaffolding to learning and the Internet, scaffolding and Vygotsky's theory, and constructivist exercises. ( http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffolding.html ) | ||
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| Cognitive Apprenticeship | ||
| This site evaluates the importance of using a cognitive apprenticeship approach in classroom instruction. ( http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/cog.html ) | ||
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| Vygotsky on Language and Thought | ||
| Vygotsky's main ideas about developmental changes in language and thought are examined in this site. Included is information about word meaning and implications for instruction. It contains links to related sites. ( http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/words/ ) | ||
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| Piaget's Theory | ||
| This Web site discusses the processes and stages of children's cognitive development as described by Piaget. Links to additional resources are included. ( http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html ) | ||
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| Vygotsky's Theory | ||
| This site offers a basic overview of Vygotsky's social cognitive theory of development. ( http://www.funderstanding.com/vygotsky.cfm ) | ||
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| The Development of Language and Parenting | ||
| This site offers helpful strategies parents and other adults can use to foster and guide children's language development. Included are articles about bilingual and sign language development. ( http://babyparenting.about.com/od/talking/index.htm ) | ||
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| Language Learning | ||
| Discussion on how to interact with children to facilitate their language learning is contained in this Web site. ( http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/devel1.htm ) | ||
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| Language and Literacy Development | ||
| This site has excellent ideas for helping children learn language at different points in development. ( http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/lang_lit.htm ) | ||
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| Language Development: 4-6 Years | ||
| This Web site offers strategies for helping children, ages 4 through 6, to develop their language skills. ( http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/Econtent_HT/hdShowLfts.asp?lftname=ASLHA073&cid=HTHLTH ) | ||
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| Children's Vocabulary Development and Software | ||
| A terrific site with an extensive evaluation of software that can be used to support children's vocabulary development. ( http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num1/wood/default.html ) | ||
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| Neural Processes | ||
| Provides tutorials on basic neural processes and a link to an atlas of brain structures. ( http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/neurotut.html ) | ||
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| Piaget's Stages | ||
| Piaget's four stages – sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational are in this Web site. ( http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/assign2/MH/webpage.htm ) | ||
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| Piaget and Constructivism | ||
| Extensive discussion of Piaget's theory in terms of its constructivist approach. ( http://www.oikos.org/Piagethom.htm ) | ||
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| Child Development Basics | ||
| The child development section of this site provides parents with information on physical, mental and emotional growth and development in children and teenagers. Child development information can help parents know when they are expecting too much from a child as well as become aware of lags in development that may benefit from professional help. ( http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/parenting/cdi/child_development/index.htm ) | ||
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| Language Development Chart and Resources | ||
| This page presents information on the development of language in children, and a chart presents typical language development. ( http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_development.shtml ) | ||
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| Developing Language Proficiency and Connecting School to Students' Lives: Two Standards f... | ||
| This digest focuses specifically on two pedagogy standards for effective teaching and learning for all students, developing language and literacy across the curriculum and connecting school to students' lives, and provides examples of how they are implemented in the classroom. Indicators are introduced for each standard, revealing its action components and their functions in teaching and learning. ( http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/daltoneric.html ) | ||
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