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More kindergartners, families will benefit from pilot expansion
19/09/2024

More kindergartners, families will benefit from pilot expansion

A pilot has expanded to nearly double the number of schools in BC, providing more families with access to affordable early learning and child care, before and after school, conveniently located in the kindergarten classroom.

“Adding more Seamless classrooms means providing continuity for more BC kids and peace of mind to more BC parents,” said Rachna Singh, Minister of Education and Child Care. “To have kindergarteners learning and receiving before- and after-school care all in one place makes days easier for everyone.”

Seamless Day Kindergarten integrates before- and after-school care into the kindergarten classroom, delivered by certified early childhood educators (ECEs) who work alongside the classroom teacher. The program makes the best use of available school space, existing classrooms, outdoors, school gyms and libraries outside of school hours.

“We know many families continue to need child care once their children start school,” said Grace Lore, Minister of State for Child Care. “The Seamless Day Kindergarten classroom offers child care before and after school and will make it easier for busy families to get through their workday knowing their children are learning and well cared for at school.”

The province’s first Seamless Day Kindergarten pilot began at Oliver Elementary in the

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Education Kindergarten
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by sindiro
MNPS launches innovative reading program for kindergarten students
28/08/2024

MNPS launches innovative reading program for kindergarten students

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) has joined forces with a leading tutoring company, Once Early-Reading Program, and Stanford University. The collaborative effort is geared towards equipping kindergarten students with the essential skills to become professional readers from an early age.

Warner Elementary School is full of activities, as kindergarteners are learning how to read.

The school has embarked on a mission to ensure that its young students not only read aloud in the classroom but also receive personalized, one-on-one instruction.

Asjah Hall, a paraprofessional at Warner Elementary, stresses the significance of individualized attention.

“We sat down with them for about 15 minutes, going through letter sounds and gradually combining them to form words. Our goal is to progress to reading full sentences and paragraphs as the program unfolds,” she said.

The unique program, set to run throughout the 2023-2024 school year, is a joint venture between MNPS, Once Early-Reading Program, and Stanford University.

The initiative not only seeks to provide kindergarten students with a head start in their reading journey but also includes a randomized controlled research study to evaluate the efficacy of personalized tutoring.

Matt Pasternack, CEO of Once, liked the research study to conducted

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Education Kindergarten
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by sindiro
Studies at the intersection of equity, computing, and education | MIT News
19/02/2024

Studies at the intersection of equity, computing, and education | MIT News

Before joining the Lifelong Kindergarten group in the MIT Media Lab, Cecilé Sadler saw computer engineering and community service as separate aspects of her life. Alongside her bachelor’s and master’s work in computer engineering at North Carolina State and Duke University, respectively, Sadler also spent a lot of time working with young people through local Boys and Girls Clubs and public schools. Now, she blends both of her passions as a graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences.

“The work I do now is that happy medium,” says Sadler, whose thesis grew out of a collaboration with a Cambridge-based grassroots community organization called blackyard, which organizes after-school programming centering Black youth. Sadler brings STEM and coding activities developed by MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten group to blackyard, while trying to understand what makes a positive learning environment for the students.

“The activities that I’ve been doing with the young people have been centered around this idea of ​​dreaming through code,” says Sadler. “How do you cultivate and support radical imagination and engage in conversations that allow you to describe ideas important to you and your community?”

Sadler wants to have an impact with everything she does, whether it’s generating

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Education Kindergarten
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by sindiro
Kindergarteners Already Use AI – News
29/01/2024

Kindergarteners Already Use AI – News

David Touretzky wants teachers and students to understand artificial intelligence. Whether or not they do, it’s already a part of their lives.

Dave Touretzky

David Touretzky

A research professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer ScienceTouretzky is the founder and chairman of AI4K12an initiative to develop guidelines and resources for teaching AI to students in kindergarten through grade 12. He’s also the principal investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation called AI4GA that is developing an AI elective course for Georgia middle school students.

In the following Q&A, Touretzky explained why AI is such a hot topic, why learning about it is crucial for students and how it’s frequently misunderstood. This interview has been edited and condensed.

Q: Why should we teach kids about AI?

A: AI has been called the new electricity. It’s powering this fourth industrial revolution. It permeates everybody’s lives. Your phone, for example, is full of AI-powered applications. It’s important that kids understand AI because they’re growing up with it already. It’s not in their future, it’s their current life. By the

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Education Kindergarten
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by sindiro