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Session Type: Symposium
This session will present research findings from three U.S. Department of Education-funded Ready To Learn (RTL) projects that are designing, developing, and deploying highly engaging multimedia learning experiences. The media fosters the early literacy and mathematics skills of low-income children ages 2 – 8 at home and in other informal and formal educational settings. The projects advance knowledge of how digital technologies better prepare underserved and impoverished children to succeed in school through children’s direct engagement with the media and by training parents and teachers to engage effectively with their children around the media. The presentations include a theoretical overview of the role of technology in early education and the learning outcomes of each of four RTL research and evaluation studies.
Early Learning and Children's Media: A Theoretical Overview of the Ready To Learn Initiative - Chip Donohue
Educational Touch-Screen Games Informed by Best Practices Support Preschool-Age English Language Learners' Vocabulary Development - Carmina Marcial, Michael Cohen Group LLC
Ready To Learn Transmedia Supplement Impacts Preschool Math Learning and Teaching in Low-Income Settings - Shelley Pasnik, Education Development Center, Inc.
PBS KIDS Digital Games Support Parent Engagement in Young Children's Math Learning in Low-Income Communities - Elizabeth M. McCarthy, WestEd
Project UMIGO: Digital Technology Helps Level the Early Mathematics Playing Field - Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen Group LLC