Brain Teaser
Do we all have “attention deficits”? Or is there something else going on? Let’s try this little experiment, conceived by Simons and Chabris for their classic study on sustained inattentional blindness (1999).
Cool Literacy and Learning Links
The Building Blocks of a Good Pre-K. What do we want our children’s first experiences in school to be? What does a good education look like for 4-year-olds? New York Times, October 21, 2014.
The Missing Piece: Discovering the Joy in Parent-Child Reading. If we hope to produce life-long readers, we need to instill a desire to read, not just because it is important for building a child's school readiness, but because it is fun and it builds parent-child relationships. Huffington Post, October 10, 2014.
