Especially since Cuomo just closed all schools, including Upstate, until the end of the school year and says he’s not sure he’s “going to permit” summer sessions.
This is nuts.
Yes, it is, especially since young kids seem to not be getting this virus.
Just got a report from a preschool teacher. The programs are not suited to the age of the child. “Find something little and blue.” “Find something big and blue.” Kids are running around the house, getting distracted, eating bananas . . .
We need game inventors on this task. Use the medium for its strengths. Remember how children first got entranced by the computer: Pac Man and stuff like that. Devise games that are really learning experiences in disguise. Even three-year-olds can get involved if something like that if it’s on their level. You can’t take the old methods, like face-to-face and storytelling, and just stick them on the new media. Get some competition going like with a video game.
Who was the child psychologist who said you can teach any child anything if you go to their age level? Can’t think of his name. Wasn’t Piaget. Jerome Bruner maybe? Someone whose name begins with M.