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Video Clips
Learning Materials Workshop introduces a new resource for teachers
and parents of young children. These resources combine descriptive
and explanatory text about how children learn, in this case, with
the Learning Materials Workshop Blocks.
The following sections include video clips documenting
children's mathematical thinking that occurs during their spontaneous
block play. You will see examples of children exploring numbers
and operations, geometry and spatial relations, and patterns
and measurement. The video clips also show children's initiative,
curiosity, engagement, persistence, reasoning, and problem
solving ability.
You will see a page of text with an occasional blue word. When
you click on the blue word a very brief video clip will pop up
to exemplify what your have just read. All three clips show an
engaging five-year old named Ria and her teacher Mary Beth. In
one set of clips Ria is trying to solve a problem of inserting
a dowel into a hole that is blocked by another dowel. In the second
set she has discovered that the mirror increases the number of
apparent blocks in her stack. In a third set Ria builds a symmetrical
structure and the text explains how symmetry tells us a great
deal about the young child's intelligence.
Videatives, Inc. has created innovative combinations of text and digital
video clips called Thinkprints and videatives. These text and movie files
can be instantly downloaded and played on your computer for
individual or
group showing or for distribution on the web. These
products will help reveal the educational power of spontaneous play, explain how teachers support learning, and improve your ability to "see what children know" without testing. Check out the Videatives eStore at www.videatives.com. These files can be shipped on a CD upon request.
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For more information see www.videatives.com.
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