Getting Ready to Learn: Creating Effective, Educational Children’s Media - Hardcover

Pasnik, Shelley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138572586 ISBN 13: 9781138572584

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children, parents, and teachers. Based on years of meaningful data from the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative, chapters explore how to develop engaging, playful, and developmentally appropriate content. From Emmy-Award-winning series to randomized controlled trials, this book covers the media production, scholarly research and technological advances surrounding some of the country’s most beloved programming.

About this title

Review

Featuring a Foreword by Dr. Alice Wilder and Sir Ken Robinson

"Combining in-depth research analysis and practical case analysis, the

collected authors in Shelley Pasnik’s book present a hopeful vision of how

technology and media can support children’s learning. It models a kind of

intentional, thoughtful, and creative approach that gives positive meaning

to media and technology much needed in the often noisy world of mindless

consumption."

―Junlei Li, Fred Rogers Center/Zaentz Early Childhood, Harvard University, USA

 

"At last! A comprehensive and highly readable account of the CPB/PBS Ready

to Learn initiative, which has fundamentally transformed children’s television

programming. This is the first and only volume that puts all the accumulated

research together, and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in

educational media. It will prove once and for all that high quality programming

can be a valuable resource for children’s social-emotional learning and cognitive

development."

―Susan B. Neuman, Professor of Childhood and Literacy Education, New York

University, USA

 

"In this well-researched collection, Pasnik and her colleagues distinguish

what makes the Ready To Learn initiative so unique, how it’s made a positive

difference in the lives of many families, and why it is an excellent public

investment. Getting Ready to Learn makes an extremely strong case for why

and how thoughtful, intentionally produced media can make a big difference

in the lives of young children, especially children who are most in need of

additional support and resources."

―Michael Robb, Senior Director of Research, Common Sense Media, USA

About the Author

Shelley Pasnik is the Director of the Center for Children and Technology and a vice president of the Education Development Center.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138572586
• ISBN 13: 9781138572584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292