Roots of Reading <- your first lab link

1. What are some of the ways that Mira's parents are helping to prepare her to read?

2. When does preparation for reading begin? Explain your answer.

3. What makes a child's book a successful one?

4. The video discusses dialogic reading. What is dialogic reading?

5. What are some of the strategies used in the video to help prepare children to read?

Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education <- your second lab link

1. What was Mitra's experiment? How did it turn out?

2. What do Mitra's different experiments show about children's learning?

3. What does the video illustrate about communication and interaction between children? How can an early childhood education site use this?

4. What is the "Grandma cloud"? How does it encourage learning?

5. What might be some of the advantages and disadvantages to having computers in an early childhood education site?