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ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in
Children's Thinking
ECE 353 Entire Course
Important Questions in Childrens Thinking.
Chapter One of your text identifies the six most
important questions in the study of childrens
thinking Are some capabilities innate? Does
development progress through stages? How does
change occur? How do individuals differ? How
do changes in the brain contribute to cognitive
development? How does the social world
contribute to cognitive development?
ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 1 Important Questions in
Children's Thinking ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2
Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing ECE 353
Week 1 The Piagetian Model ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1
Cultural Tools ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational
Innovations ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological
Acquisition ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory
Facilitation ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to
Classroom Practices ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 1 Theories
of Concept Representation
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ECE 353 Week 1 The Piagetian Model
ECE 353 Week 1 DQ 2 Addressing Bias in
Intelligence Testing
The Piagetian Model. There is little argument
that while not perfect, Piagets theories have
had a profound impact on the field of cognitive
development. Provide an analysis of his model as
well as the challenges to it. In a two- to
three-page paper, please include the following
components Define the four main stages of
Piagets theory, along with their age ranges
Discuss the three crucial processes by which
children move from one stage to another
Focusing on the first three stages, describe one
significant limitation of childrens thinking in
each
Addressing Bias in Intelligence Testing. Daniel,
an eight-year-old child from a poor, inner-city
neighborhood, is given a traditional IQ test. One
section of the IQ test involves defining various
words. Yacht is one of the words that Daniel is
asked to define. Briefly discuss why the test
administrator should be cautious when
interpreting Daniels performance on this test.
How does the triarchic theory potentially counter
this bias? Develop and share three questions, one
for each component of the triarchic theory
(analytic, creative, and practical), that would
provide a more accurate representation of
Daniels intelligence.
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ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 2 Educational Innovations
ECE 353 Week 2 DQ 1 Cultural Tools
Cultural Tools. Cultural tools shape cognitive
development and can include both technical tools,
which act on the environment, and psychological
tools, which are tools for thinking. Discuss
Vygotskys belief that language is the most
significant of the cultural tools. Do you agree
or disagree? Examine the given images of other
psychological tools. Choose one of the given
tools and discuss how that tool may influence
cognitive development from the perspective of the
sociocultural theories. What do you feel are the
ramifications of your tool on student learning?
Is your chosen tool an example of the ratchet
effect? Defend your answer.
Educational Innovations. Many educational
innovations, such as dynamic assessment and FCL
(Fostering Communities of Learners) classrooms,
have incorporated insights about learning and
development from the sociocultural theories.
Choose either dynamic assessment or FCL. Define
your choice, and discuss how it incorporates
insights about learning and development from the
sociocultural theories. Develop one activity that
effectively illustrates your chosen educational
innovation in practice.
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ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 2 Memory Facilitation
ECE 353 Week 3 DQ 1 Phonological Acquisition
Phonological Acquisition. Watch the talk by
Patricia Kuhl, entitled The Linguistic Genius of
Babies. How do her findings support language
acquisition in regard to phonology as it is
described in Chapter Six of your text? Include a
discussion of the need for a social context when
developing phonological awareness and why. How
did your own social context impact your
phonological awareness?
Memory Facilitation. Older children typically
remember more than younger children. Identify and
describe two strategies that older children use
to facilitate their memories. Reflecting on your
own personal experiences, what strategies do you
employ to improve your memory? Discuss the
relevance of strategies that facilitate memory
within the context of classroom instruction.
Share one instructional strategy that you feel is
highly effective for most students.
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ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 1 Theories of Concept
Representation
ECE 353 Week 3 Journal Connecting to Classroom
Practices
Theories of Concept Representation. Identify and
describe one of the three major theories of
concept representation defining-features,
probabilistic, or theory-based. What is the
mechanism of conceptual development in your
chosen theory? Provide an example (not given in
the text) that illustrates the mechanisms of your
chosen theory. How would a child likely respond
to a given scenario from the perspective of your
chosen theory?
Connecting to Classroom Practices. In a one- to
two-page journal entry, write a self-reflection.
What is the relevance of this course to best
practices in the classroom? In other words, how
can an understanding of how children think
improve your teaching skills, particularly in
terms of differentiating student needs and
abilities? Do you feel that you currently utilize
an understanding of cognitive development in your
own teaching? Your journal is an informal,
reflective piece that does not require citations
or APA format however, if you choose to use
resources, please cite them appropriately.
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ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 1 Planning in Problem Solving
ECE 353 Week 4 DQ 2 False Belief Tasks
Planning in Problem Solving. Young children often
fail to plan, even when doing so would facilitate
their problem-solving performance. Select and
describe one of the five reasons that children
may fail to plan given on pages 357-358 of your
text. Construct a classroom-based scenario that
illustrates your chosen reason. What is the
implication of your reason when considering the
differing needs of students while planning for
classroom instruction? What is one strategy that
teachers can use to mediate the effects of these
failures and support the problem-solving skills
of their young students?
False Belief Tasks. According to your text, the
gold standard that researchers use to
demonstrate understanding of belief is success on
tasks that require understanding of ones own or
another persons false belief (Siegler, 2005,
pg. 318). Young children often fail false belief
tasks. This finding has been interpreted in a
number of different ways. Give an original
example of a false belief task that could be
given to a three-year-old (do not use an example
from the text).
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ECE 353 Week 5 Final Paper
ECE 353 Week 5 DQ 2 Learning in Context
Final Paper Chapter Twelve of your text
identifies seven areas of cognitive development
that have been addressed in this book
perception, language, memory, conceptual
understanding, social cognition, problem solving,
and academic skills. Table 12.1 of the chapter
also identifies the eight themes of childrens
thinking, in general, that have filtered
throughout the course of this text. For your
final paper you will select one area of cognitive
development and analyze it through the lens of at
least three of the themes outlined in table 12.1.
Learning in Context. Context influences
childrens performance in mathematics. This was
illustrated in Carraher and colleagues (1985)
classic study of Brazilian street vendors.
Describe the method and results of Carraher and
colleagues study, and discuss how the results
support the claim that childrens mathematical
problem-solving performance depends on context.
Do you feel that these findings can also be
applied to other academic areas? Provide a
specific example of how a classroom teacher might
use this research to facilitate learning in the
classroom.
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ECE 353 Week 5 Journal Course Reflection
Course Reflection. In a one- to two-page journal
entry, reflect on your experience in ECE353.
Which components of the course have influenced
your thinking the most in regard to cognitive
development? Identify one theory that had the
most profound impact on your thinking (either
positively or negatively) and describe why. What
effect will this have on your classroom
instruction? Your journal is an informal,
reflective piece that does not require citations
or APA format however, if you choose to use
resources, please cite them appropriately.
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