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Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 19719
Publication Date: 2004-08-25
Release Date: 2004-08-12
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 1594860688
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 320
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In this book two highly credentialed child psychologists offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message that stressed-out parents are craving to hear: Letting tots learn through play is not only okay-it's better than drilling academics!
Drawing on overwhelming scientific evidence from their own studies and the collective research results of child development experts, and addressing the key areas of development-math, reading, verbal communication, science, self-awareness, and social skills-the authors explain the process of learning from a child's point of view. They then offer parents 40 age-appropriate games for creative play. These simple, fun--yet powerful exercises work as well or better than expensive high-tech gadgets to teach a child what his ever-active, playful mind is craving to learn.
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Review: 2009-10-17
Boring book assignment turned into an awesome read!
I had to read this for one of my college courses, and for this reason I was very skeptical. It's not often an assigned book is ever much fun to read. However, this book was a lot of fun, and is really able to hold the reader's interest. I recommend this book to anyone who is pregnant or has a young child, and is looking to take interest in how their baby learns and grows.
Review: 2009-09-20
still a worry book
still a worry wart book advocating parents to do X Y and Z according to them and "research." The same research that shows putting a child in day care is fine. maybe it is. maybe play is great. maybe flash cards are great. to each their own
Review: 2009-05-20
RTI and Early Intervention (Gaden)
Einstein Never Used Flashcards
I found myself exploring below age five programs a few years ago while I was the director of special services in a Midwest community that consisted of mostly Hispanic immigrants. Over 80 percent of the 230 three to five year old's were living in a home where Spanish was the primary language (L1) spoken on a regular basis.
As part of the learning community we had established for our community, we selected "Einstein Never Used Flashcards" as the reading to help us understand how required assessments and instructional materials were impacting our students learning opportunities in the classroom. Play centered learning verses Response to Intervention practices were the two paradigm that were being addressed by the group. How could center based play learning and a more intensive direct instructional approach to literacy exist without one another or could they exist together?
Response to Intervention (RTI) requires a framework of assessments and interventions that target specific skills such as phonics (sounds), phonemic awareness (letter id), fluency (reading consistency), vocabulary (work knowledge), and comprehension (understanding). The RTI approach, which is firmly based on data driven decision making), is controversial or could even be considered the antithesis that play is the best way for children to learn. This book stresses the importance of play but recognizes the importance of literacy being embedded within the learning opportunities that below age five children should have to grow and learn.
Einstein Never Used Flashcards author does a nice job of presenting to parents and educators that by forcing skills on to young children at a time they are just not ready to naturally take in the skill can cause the child to be frustrated and not engage in learning activities such as play. Just by playing a tape of beginning sounds while your child naps does not ensure they will be at a more advanced level then children their same age.
This book does a nice job of explaining the brains development and how the brain must be left to develop in a way that is unique to the child it belongs to and not to the stimulus being produced by an outside factor. By trying to teach skills the brain is not ready to process, merely leaves the parent with an empty wallet and lots of learning toys to be passed on to friends and family.
How does RTI fit with Play? Our finding was that RTI could be embedded in the learning centers that students used in the HeadStart, private preschool centers, and our school based preschool programs. Students could play by painting letters, words, colors, or other items they were curious to learn. Centers could have large patterns blocks and the students could play with one another to make patterns using colors, numbers, pictures, and other topics. The centers the students interact in the classroom become more focused on the language and literacy skills the students needed to acquire for dual language reasons.
Furthermore, we discovered that small groups of children that have speech-articulation concerns could be targeted for intervention in mixed groups by using researched based materials that reinforce phonics and fluency skills through chants and other rhyming activities with children that they love to do on a consistent schedule.
Our professional learning community learned that free play is a great way for children to learn. Even more, our group discovered that centered based play that uses language and literacy materials along with structured opportunities to practice increase outcomes for second language learners.
We never did get to the part where we explored our assessments and how they were going to drive the centers based learning materials. We were sure the materials and opportunity play areas must consist of items the students needed more learning opportunities in due to the second language influence on dual language acquisition. Researched based programs such as Stepping Stones were a good example of an intervention that could be used in daily activities.
I recommend this book to all new parents and newer educators going into early intervention or early childhood education.
Review: 2009-02-25
Loved it
Goes to show you how the next generation of parents buying into & pushing their children to become "superkids" without any sound research showing that flashcards & classical music actually make their kids smarter.
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