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2. ECE 353 Entire Course ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in Children's Thinking • ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in Children's Thinking • ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2 Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing • ECE 353 Week 1 The Piagetian Model • ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1 Cultural Tools • ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational Innovations • ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological Acquisition • ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory Facilitation • ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom Practices • Important Questions in Children’s Thinking. Chapter One of your text identifies the six most important questions in the study of children’s thinking: • § Are some capabilities innate? • § Does development progress through stages? ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

3. ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2 Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing ECE 353 Week 1 The Piagetian Model • Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing. Daniel, an eight-year-old child from a poor, inner-city neighborhood, is given a traditional IQ test. One section of the IQ test involves defining various words. • The Piagetian Model. There is little argument that while not perfect, Piaget’s theories have had a profound impact on the field of cognitive development. Provide an analysis of his model as well as the challenges to it. ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

4. ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1 Cultural Tools ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational Innovations • Cultural Tools. Cultural tools shape cognitive development and can include both technical tools, which act on the environment, and psychological tools, which are tools for thinking. Discuss Vygotsky’s belief that language is the most significant of the cultural tools. • Educational Innovations. Many educational innovations, such as dynamic assessment and FCL (Fostering Communities of Learners) classrooms, have incorporated insights about learning and development from the sociocultural theories. ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

5. ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological Acquisition ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory Facilitation • Phonological Acquisition. Watch the talk by Patricia Kuhl, entitled The Linguistic Genius of Babies. • How do her findings support language acquisition in regard to phonology as it is described in Chapter Six of your text? Include a discussion • Memory Facilitation. Older children typically remember more than younger children. Identify and describe two strategies that older children use to facilitate their memories. Reflecting on your own personal experiences ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

6. ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom Practices ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 1 Theories of Concept Representation • Connecting to Classroom Practices. In a one- to two-page journal entry, write a self-reflection. What is the relevance of this course to best practices in the classroom? In other words, how can an understanding of how children think • Theories of Concept Representation. Identify and describe one of the three major theories of concept representation: defining-features, probabilistic, or theory-based. ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

7. ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 2 False Belief Tasks ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 1 Planning in Problem Solving • False Belief Tasks. According to your text, “the ‘gold standard’ that researchers use to demonstrate understanding of belief is success on tasks that require understanding of one’s own or another person’s false belief” • Planning in Problem Solving. Young children often fail to plan, even when doing so would facilitate their problem-solving performance. Select and describe one of the five reasons that children may fail to plan given on pages 357-358 of your text. ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

8. ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 2 Learning in Context ECE 353 Week 5 Final Paper • Learning in Context. Context influences children’s performance in mathematics. This was illustrated in Carraher and colleagues’ (1985) classic study of Brazilian street vendors. • Final Paper • Chapter Twelve of your text identifies seven areas of cognitive development that have been addressed in this book: perception, language, memory, conceptual understanding, social cognition, problem ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

9. ECE 353 Week 5 Journal Course Reflection • Course Reflection. In a one- to two-page journal entry, reflect on your experience in ECE353. Which components of the course have influenced your thinking the most in regard to cognitive development? ece 353 expert Peer Educator/ece353expertdotcom

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