The best part of story time was when the teacher finished reading a page aloud and rotated the book, revealing to an eager class the wide, glossy pages of illustrations illuminating what we’d just heard. John Locke understood this when he argued that pictures were essential to a child’s comprehension of a story as for children, showing is always better than telling.[1] By [...]
For many professional companies nowadays, the process of content development is crucial to their success across various industries. Whether it be in the economic, educational, or electrical services industries—the role of content and its development is key for not only the actual product or service any industry is providing but to every industry as a whole. That’s why the significance of quality assurance [...]
In this mediascape, the forms literature can take varies wildly. Whether you want to pop in some headphones and listen to hours of someone reading you a story or if you want to simply pull an ebook up on your smartphone on the train, you can enjoy books from the comfort of anywhere. The dissemination of literature like this seems to be a [...]
Humanities vs. STEM If you’re on any secondary education campus that offers degrees in both humanities and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) studies, then you are bound to come across the ongoing debate of the value of which field of study is more ‘valuable.’ You might even hear a group of STEM students during finals bemoaning all the cramming and memorization for [...]
Do you ever just sit and wonder why? Not about anything in particular, but about everything in particular: how the sea works, why the sun shines, what happens in our brains when we dream, etc. You might know the answer to these questions, but that force at work that forms these questions, what keeps our minds hunting for answers, is curiosity. When considering [...]
It’s often said, ‘it takes a village to raise a child,’ and when it comes to their academic achievement, the saying certainly stands strong. For a student trying to succeed in school, it takes more than just a great school system or dedicated teacher to reach success; it requires the intervention and involvement of a child’s caretakers and community for them to reach [...]
As we’re all familiar with, the COVID-19 epidemic induced epic changes in culture, economy, and pretty much all facets of life as we knew it. It has been a while since we lived through a plague of such proportions, and the changes it brought still have an impact on today’s world. Of all those changes, one of the many positive but controversial ones [...]
What is Policing in Educational Institutions? With the presence of violence in educational settings a constant and lurking threat, police in schools have been a common presence across the country, specifically since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting.[1] Massachusetts began the trend across the nation with the passing of the Gun Violence Reduction Act in regard to the shooting, mandating that all [...]
From an early age, it is vital to anyone’s psychological growth to have the ability to understand others' mental states, and the understanding that others have differing beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one’s own. This is the basis of social interaction and is known as theory of mind—in psychological terms.[1] To develop empathy and foster an empowering classroom, the [...]
What is Multicultural Literature? Culture is everything—it’s how we define ourselves and perceive the world in our own, idiosyncratic ways, and it’s an essential part of one’s identity during childhood. It’s also during the first three years of childhood[1] when one’s foundations for literacy is laid in place, as well as the development of their self-concept including a sense of their own culture [...]