participants will be introduced to the risks associated with excessive early childhood televiewing and develop an understanding of the current recommended guidelines for children’s television exposure. my research agenda in montreal (canada) addresses modifiable factors in early childhood that influence human development. from birth through the preschool years, exponential brain maturation is c...

Programming with the KIBO Robotics Kit in Preschool Classrooms Mollie Elkin, Amanda Sullivan & Marina Umaschi Bers To cite this article: Mollie Elkin, Amanda Sullivan & Marina Umaschi Bers (2016) Programming with the KIBO Robotics Kit in Preschool Classrooms, Computers in the Schools, 33:3, 169-186, DOI: 10.1080/07380569.2016.1216251 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2...

Prevalence of obesity in preschool children has increased dramatically in recent years. The preschool years (age 3-6 years) have been regarded as critical for the programming of energy balance, via the concept of early 'adiposity rebound'. Children who undergo early adiposity rebound are at increased risk of later obesity. Recent evidence suggests that associations between timing of adiposity r...

Coding is increasingly recognized as a new literacy that should be encouraged at young age. This understanding has recontextualized computer science compulsory school subject and informed several developmentally appropriate approaches to computation, including for preschool children. study focuses on the introduction of three computation in (3–6 years), specifically computational thinking, prog...

BACKGROUND Although previous studies have revealed that preschool-aged children imitate both aggression and prosocial behaviors on screen, there have been few population-based studies designed to reduce aggression in preschool-aged children by modifying what they watch. METHODS We devised a media diet intervention wherein parents were assisted in substituting high quality prosocial and educat...

This article is based on a partial study of an R&D programme with various theory-informed teaching arrangements aimed at describing and further developing knowledge what characterizes preschool teaching. The aim this to contribute about how teachers children can create attention in relation example when focuses mathematical aspects programming from didaktik variation theory perspective. gui...

This study focuses on developing and evaluating an online course aimed at preschool educators primary school teachers. It presents a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) computational thinking, programming robotics developed as part of the project “Laboratory for Technology Programming Robotics Learning in Primary Preschool Education Portugal (KML II)” The MOOC design was inspired by blended learn...

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and non-cognitive skills, which enhance earnings and school outcomes. It also finds that a standard Mincer earnings ...