Babies:
- Once thought that their minds were a blank slate
- Studies indicate that they respond to and influence surroundings
- Black and white books - high contrast
- Expectation/association - similar to 'Pavlov's dog' experiments
Auditory learning - learn through listening
Visual learning - ideas are learnt through image association
Kinesthetic learning - learning through doing
'I hear I forget, I see I remember, I do I understand', Ancient Chinese Proverb
Self motivated and self directed learning, eg. building blocks
3 approaches:
- building on pre-existing knowledge - using familiar to explain unfamiliar
- transferring knowledge - eg. toy ovens
- memory strategies - repetition or rhyme, summarising, grouping
'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle uses just 225 words and teaches about:
- Counting
- Days of the week
- Food
- Nature
Additional features
- paper engineering
- pull tabs
- flaps/fold outs
- pop ups
- die cuts
- textures
- special inks
- sounds
- stickers
- crayons
- wipe clean
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