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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/links.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://www.eagle2.american.edu/~gb3107a/piaget.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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