Don’t worry if you didn’t make it to Harvard earlier this month for a professional education program called “The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education: Linking Science to Policy for a New Generation of Pre–K.”
The folks over at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) posted a video from the event, which brought together “leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to engage with the latest thinking, research, and practice in building and sustaining high-quality pre-K systems, schools, and classrooms.”
“I want to talk about using technology in wise ways with very young children,” Dr. Michael Rich says in this video. Rich is the director and founder of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital. “And I think that to start, we have to recognize that there is a generational divide here. Even those of you who are part of the millennials or the Y generation are going to be very different – are already very different than the children you’ll be teaching in early childhood.”
It’s a case of adult digital immigrants teaching children who are digital natives, Rich explains.
Rich, the plenary speaker, wasn’t actually at the event. He speaks in a video. Following his presentation are comments from Joseph Blatt, an HGSE professor and the Faculty Director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program; Wayne Ysaguirre, president and CEO of Nurtury; and two of Rich’s colleagues Kristelle Lavallee and Lauren Rubenzahl.
The event was co-chaired by HGSE professors Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie Jones.
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