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Tell us more! Where do you work? Do you think they are unusual in having someone on staff to pay attention to academic work?
by voyou 12y ago
Tell us more! Where do you work? Do you think they are unusual in having someone on staff to pay attention to academic work?
- aliciac 12y agoI am the learning design lead at Play-i (play-i.com). We build robots to teach kids ages 5+ how to program. I am a cognitive and developmental psychologist. I did my PhD in how early language input from parents affect kids' readiness to learn number and math concepts before a postdoc on applying cognitive science to middle school science education and another postdoc on how 2D and 3D block building affects geometric and spatial cognition and later math performance. I joined my first educational gaming startup in 2011. It imploded within 6 months, but that's another story ;)
- n0rm 12y agoWhat is the one book you'd recommend on young humans' learning?<br> The sort that gives data and backs its claims up by evidence (empirical, controlled etc.) if possible.
- aliciac 12y agohttp://www.amazon.com/The-Scientist-Crib-Early-Learning/dp/0688177883 http://www.amazon.com/The-Scientist-Crib-Early-Learning/dp/0... This is what I recently recommended to new employees at my company. The three authors are highly respected researchers in the field. Here is a TED talk by Alison Gopnik (the main author) for a sense of her work on babies' and young children's natural readiness and ability to learn: http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
- aliciac 12y agoMissed the part about being unusual. Unusual being rare or uncommon, yes, but one of the first questions people always ask is if they have a learning specialist on board. This means different things to different people, but for me, I feel really lucky for a lot of reasons to land where and how I did.