If you’ve played WORDLE, you know how quickly this online game becomes addictive. Although only one puzzle is released each day (for now), if you haven’t yet been sucked into this new online obsession, you might not want to start…
Read MoreCovid has meant deprivation of one kind or another for pretty much everybody.
At the risk of sounding trite, deprivation is difficult, and that difficulty can often take over our field of vision and cause us to lose sight of the many, many things we have in abundance.
So here’s something October has in abundance: Special Days! No, we’re not talking about a day for dressing up your kids and chasing them around the neighborhood as they go mad for sugar. That’s fun, but this is even better…
Read MoreWhile “pandemic” may be the obvious choice for 2020’s “Word of the Year,” another great option would be “pivot.” So many people have had to pivot in so many ways.
One of the ways in which WE have pivoted this past year has been with our Begin With Books project in Mali…
Read More“Lion was king of all the animals. He was also the custodian of the animals’ food chamber. He gave the most food to the large animals and the least food to the small. But one day, Spider, the smallest animal in the kingdom, decided she was tired of always receiving the least. ...”
We all love stories. As Jonathan Gottschall explains in ‘The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human’ : “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
Most forms of early education incorporate stories as part of the learning process. So why do we so rarely use this love for stories to help children learn—and even love (!)—math, and see the relevance of doing math…?
Read MoreLearning is such an involved and mysterious process that coming up with good, simple tools that work for beginners is far more complex than it might first seem. If you’re a parent contemplating helping your children learn at home for the first time because of the Coronavirus, you may find yourself facing a dizzying selection of worksheet options—each one of them the product of years of research.
But for the parents of children in some language communities, finding good learning tools is just as (or more) challenging than finding good childrens’ books.
This is why our Executive Director, Dr. Paul Frank, has created a suite of Bloom templates for various kinds of non-book educational materials and uploaded them to the Bloom library. These templates were originally created for the SIL LEAD’s Afghanistan project last fall, but like all Bloom templates they can be adapted and transformed to suit the needs of any language community…
Read MoreSIL LEAD’s proposal for developing tools for creating accessible books (books for the visually impaired) was one of two winners of the ACR Access for All Challenge, which enabled the addition of the following tools to the Bloom software…
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