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Executive Summary: Fostering Joint Parent/Child Engagement in Preschool Computational Thinking by Leveraging Digital Media, Mobile Technology, and Library Settings in Rural Communities

The executive summary of the Formative Research Report for the project: Fostering Joint Parent/Child Engagement in Preschool Computational Thinking by Leveraging Digital Media, Mobile Technology, and Library Settings in Rural Communities.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Janna Kook Camille Ferguson Lucy Nelson Marisa Wolsky Jessica Andrews
resource research Media and Technology

Formative Research Report: Fostering Joint Parent/Child Engagement in Preschool Computational Thinking by Leveraging Digital Media, Mobile Technology, and Library Settings in Rural Communities

This is the formative research report for the project: Fostering Joint Parent/Child Engagement in Preschool Computational Thinking by Leveraging Digital Media, Mobile Technology, and Library Settings in Rural Communities
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marisa Wolsky Jessica Andrews Janna Kook Lucy Nelson Camille Ferguson
resource research Public Programs

Engineering in Early Childhood: Describing Family-Level Interest Development Systems

In this paper, we summarize the results of the two-year, National Science Foundation-funded Head Start on Engineering (HSE) project, designed to study and support engineering-related interest development for preschool children and their families from low-income backgrounds participating in Head Start. Low-income communities face ongoing barriers to accessing STEM learning resources and pursuing STEM-related careers. Quality family interventions in early childhood are a critical approach to addressing these barriers and have been shown to have long-term, positive impacts on families well beyond
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TEAM MEMBERS: Scott Pattison Shannon Weiss Smirla Ramos-Montañez Ivel Gontan Gina Navoa Svarovsky eric greenwald Marcie Benne Veronika Núñez Cynthia Smith
resource research Public Programs

Growing Young Minds: How Museums and Libraries Create Lifelong Learners

According to this report, libraries and museums are effective but often overlooked resources in the United States' effort to turn around a crisis in early learning, exposing children to powerful learning experiences in the critical early years and keeping them learning through the summer months. This document provides dozens of examples and 10 key ways libraries and museums are supporting young children. It provides a clear call to policymakers, schools, funders, and parents to make full use of these vital, existing community resources.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Intitute of Museum and Library Services Marsha Semmel Mamie Bittner Allison Boals Mary Lynn Howard Andrea Camp
resource evaluation Exhibitions

Provocative Questions: Supporting effective dialogue about societal issues informed by human biology in a changing world: Exploratory Research Study

This report details the findings from an exploratory research study conducted by the Research and Evaluation Department at the Museum of Science, Boston about this exhibition, which came to be known as Provocative Questions (PQ). This investigation was guided by the following questions: 1. Will visitors engage in socio-scientific argumentation in an un-facilitated exhibit space, and are they aware that they are doing so? 2. How do the un-facilitated exhibits impact visitors’ socio-scientific argumentation skills? For the exploratory research study, visitors were cued to use the exhibits and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Larry Bell Elizabeth Kollmann Juli Goss Catherine Lussenhop