Getting Ready to Learn: Creating Effective, Educational Childrens Media [Hardcover]

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 countrys most beloved programming.

Foreword by Dr. Alice Wilder and Sir Ken Robinson 1. Ready To Learn and Public Media: Improving Early Learning Outcomes for Americas Children David Lowenstein, Pamela Johnson, and Michael Fragale 2. From Mission to Screens: The PBS KIDS Approach to Content Sara DeWitt and Linda Simensky 3. Using Media to Foster Parent Engagement Megan Silander and Elisa Garcia 4. Building Learning Pathways and Community for Early Childhood Educators Lori Brittain, Jean Crawford, Sara Shapiro, Jeanne R. Paratore, Alejandra Salinas, Lisa OBrien, and Sarah Blodgett 5. When Creativity + Collaboration = Success: The Making of Peg + Cat Kim Berglund 6. Childrens Mathematical Thinking and Learning: The Importance of Study Design and Aligned Assessments in Promoting and Capturing Learning Deborah Rosenfeld and Daisy Rutstein 7. What Early Childhood Educators Need in Order To Use Digital Media Effectively Phil Vahey, Regan Vidiksis, and Jaime Gutierrez 8. Curation and Mediation: Essential Ingredients When Supporting Childrens Learning Savitha Moorthy and Ximena Domi?nguez 9. Preschoolers Learn To Think and Act Like Scientists with The Cat in the Hat Sara S. Sweetman, Lawrence S. Mirkin, Anne E. Lund, and Shannon K. lC¾