Some of the ideas I found in the Harvard website that helped me expand my education and understanding of Early Childhood are the short videos they offer. Although short and concise, they are very informative and very self explanatory for anyone to understand the content. I thought this to be a good tool to share with parents. The following is the link to one of them that can be shared with parents to show them the importance of interacting with their child. This is the link to one of the short videos;
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/three_core_concepts/serve_and_return/
One of the most essential experiences in shaping the architecture of the developing brain is "serve and return" interaction between children and significant adults in their lives. Young children naturally reach out for interaction through babbling, facial expressions, and gestures and adults respond with the same kind of vocalizing and gesturing back at them. This back-and-forth process is fundamental to the wiring of the brain, especially in the earliest years.
The website also offers articles to read or five minute videos for the visual learner
Interactive features, lectures, and presentations.
The videos are offered in various languages which I thought was very nice for everyone to take advantage of them globally. The insights I have gathered from viewing international resources is that the problems are the same no matter what part of the world we are in and we are all working together to find solutions. Every country has issues related to poverty, academics, and other early childhood factors. The difference is that some countries prioritize the issue more than others
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Hi Dina,
ReplyDeleteGreat posting. I agree with you that the short videos on the website was informative and a good tool to use to educate parents and children. While the insights you gained of the issues experienced by young children and families are the same worldwide, it is good to know that there are organizations that are fully committed to help address these situations.
Exactly Dina,
ReplyDeleteSome countries prioritize the situation of their early childhood and some are even yet to gain the consciousness that there are issues at all. Or what do you say when a country does not have early childhood funded institution? Where it is left only in the hands of the private sector who gets no form of support from the federation purse.
I think that one of the importance of globalization is that knowledge spreads faster and better. I am glad I am here and I hope for windows of opportunity to influence the issues of early childhood and have them be top burners in the heart of the entire nation.
Truly, video is a great tool when educating parents.
I enjoyed your colorful post, very interesting to read.
Thanks for sharing, I found the “serve and return interaction” very insightful and shared it on my blog as well. Every country has issues but prioritizing well is the challenge. Ours are still at the level confusion as per what is really the issue. I hope we move out of this stage very fast. As Praise said, thank God for globalization that is connecting everybody faster than you can imagine.Good job Dina
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