Summary: In this classic program, internationally known learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie leads a group of educators, psychologists, parents, and children through a series of exercises that vividly illustrate the daily classroom reality of LD students, an experience fraught with F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension. After the workshop is done, participants discuss strategies for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In her youth, Barbara Arrowsmith struggled with a severe learning dysfunction-until she designed a self-improvement regimen aimed at strengthening areas of her brain. This film profiles Arrowsmith, takes viewers inside the school she founded, and follows the progress of four cognitively challenged students enrolled there. Psychology and special education experts articulate diverging opinions of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: F.A.T.-frustration, anxiety, tension-are three all-too-familiar feelings for children with learning disabilities and their families. In this program, Richard D. Lavoie, creator of the original F.A.T. City Workshop, reviews the history and philosophy of that project, the major trends and issues in the field of learning disabilities since the late 1980s, and the challenges ahead for educators and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Whether it's English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet few children who are taught a language in school have anything to show for it when they grow up. Why is learning a second or third language so difficult? Are the teaching methods at fault? Enough...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: According to Piaget, intelligence develops in a necessary sequence of stages that are related to age. In this program, David Elkind uses structured interviews with children from 4 to 9 years of age to illustrate the development of transitive thinking and reversibility as boys and girls move from the preoperational to concrete operational stage of cognitive development. Children’s construction...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1993
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Summary: This classic program uses brain research, cognitive development research, and educational practice as windows into the process of learning. Animation depicts the firing of synapses, the growth of dendrites, and the concept of brain plasticity, making the point that learning is as basic a human activity as breathing or eating. Also, factors that lead to school success are presented in a model...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman as well as to the studies of David Elkind, this program looks at the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences resulting from adolescent changes in thinking - a transition that can create social and emotional difficulties. The video includes footage of a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: The opening line of this upbeat program is “Teaching is both an art and a science.” Filmed in three disparate but remarkable classrooms, the video illustrates how effective learning takes place when teachers combine their knowledge of child development, subject matter, and cognitive psychology. The three teachers combine music and graphic arts with reading, writing, and mathematics lessons in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1991
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Summary: The work of Lev Vygotsky is cited as the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program reconsiders the life, vocabulary, and concepts of Vygotsky, illustrating four basic concepts integral to his work: children construct knowledge, learning can lead development, development cannot be separated from its social context, and language plays a central role in cognitive development....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: This program introduces the basic terms used in the study of memory such as encoding and storage and retrieval, and looks briefly at the historical ideas about memory. Modern theories are explained using diagrams and real-life examples, and the program then goes on to discuss current research in the area of everyday memory. The reasons for forgetting are explored and the biological basis of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on dramatic play. Through sequences of young children playing house, doctor’s office, rescue squadron, and trick-or-treating, the theoretical positions that Vygotsky and other prominent theorists have taken in systematically studying play are illustrated. The video provides a thorough review of traditional ways of studying play...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Building on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner, Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong worked with teachers in urban schools to foster self-regulated learning. This program presents both the theoretical underpinnings of their work and its results as viewers sit in on busy classrooms where students are being helped to take responsibility for their education. The video offers useful viewpoints...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Human beings were never born to read. This program seeks to understand how the brain, which has evolved no hardwired "reading center," made the leap to literacy; why reading well-crafted writing is so profoundly important to intellectual and emotional development; and whether the Internet, with its blogs and videos and games, is placing novels-a prime type of reading material for nurturing the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program describes and demonstrates specific examples of instructional conversation and other types of cognitive coaching; identifies instructional arrangements that are used to promote active learning by students; models questioning techniques and student interactions, including the ways in which cognitive coaches keep student discussion focused and productive; and considers the role that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Cognitive science has provided exciting breakthroughs in child development. This video demonstrates how children are learning much more, at much earlier ages than many experts thought possible-and that learning is rooted in emotion as well as logic.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The aim of this program is to examine Piaget's theory and to critically evaluate it in light of modern research. The study of child development in the 20th century revolved around Jean Piaget's theories, and the program clearly describes their central themes, covering the cognitive stages of development from birth to twelve years old, giving illustrations of children's behavior at each level....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Combining archival materials, a replication of a study with young children, and frank interviews with college students, this program summarizes much of the research about moral development. It leads students to experience the methodology involved in psychological research and to consider the factors involved as they face moral decisions in their own lives. This video does not deal with extreme...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: How and why do humans learn new things? Why are we stronger in some skills than others? At what age do we learn most quickly, and how can we improve our learning capacity? This program studies the knowledge-building process that typically occurs in childhood by observing 25 six-year-olds as they adapt to the challenges of their surroundings. Focusing on seven key areas in which learning takes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using historical footage and photos in combination with video shot at daycare centers, this program offers an entertaining and enlightening introduction to the major child development theorists, how their theories differ, and how the application of multiple theories can be beneficial to parents, caregivers, and educators. Theorists presented include Sigmund Freud, Maria Montessori, Arnold...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Adolescents have both the cognitive and the emotional capacity to deepen their emotional intelligence, and for that reason secondary schools are being viewed as an ideal setting in which to teach and promote EI. In this program, Dr. Karen Hansen, coordinator of the EI and Education Research Unit of Swinburne University, compares and contrasts definitions and models of EI. In addition, she...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009