At the intersection of the global cities movement and the movement to optimize early education in and out of school, lies Playful Learning Landscapes. Twenty-first Century Learning models will need to embrace a breadth of skills that allow children to succeed in a world of increasing uncertainty and change. Projections suggest that by 2050 over 70% of the worlds’ children will be living in urban areas and that most of these children – over 825 million – will reach adulthood without even the basic secondary skills required to meet the workplace of today and tomorrow.
Learn More >Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences with a grant to Roberta M. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jill deVilliers, Aquiles Iglesias, and Mary Wilson, Brooks Publishing has brought out our new language screener, developed to find children (ages 3 through 5) with potential language problems. As language is fundamental to children’s success in school and in life, we hope it will be adopted by schools to find children with potential language issues who might linger unnoticed in classrooms. It can be administered on any touchscreen tablet or computer and identifies children for referral. QUILS™ has a monolingual English version and a forthcoming version for children learning both English and Spanish (the QUILS: ES).
Learn More >Breakthroughs and insights now emerge regularly from the learning sciences. Yet they are slow to make their way into schools, family support systems, and the social consciousness. Too often, new findings are either left to wilt in inaccessible academic journals, contorted by splashy headlines, or too complicated to lead to real policy changes. One major contributor to this problem is that journalists, entertainers, policy influencers, and learning scientists have no incentive to take the time to listen to each other, grapple with problems together, and gain a deeper understanding of each other’s mission and work.
This is why the Jacobs Foundation, together with the think tank New America, and the International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) created a new fellowship: The Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX). The LSX aims to create a conversation between scientists, journalists, entertainers, and policy makers.
Learn More >Roberta was recently featured in an article in Edutopia by Connor Williams for her work on the consequences of denying the 30 million word gap!
Read full story >Roberta recently presented a talk on the effects of bilingualism on infants’ sensitivity to ground information at the Experiments in Linguistic Meaning conference, hosted virtually by the University of Pennsylvania. Click the link to watch her talk!
Read full story >Roberta was recently a guest panelist for WWO’s September Virtual Event, where she spoke about the transformative power of play. Click “Read Full Story” to see the event!
Read full story >Roberta and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek recently helped organize the Learning Sciences Exchange Summit. The summit featured the Learning Sciences Exchange fellows’ projects, which aimed to tackle the communication gap between researchers and the parents, caregivers, and early educators they aim to reach. Read about the event in this blog post!
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