In this excerpt from Dr. Rebecca Winthrop's LINC 2019 keynote address, she explains what it means to leapfrog education using an example from Brazil, where innovative techniques are being used to help kids access education in remote jungle areas.
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Early Childhood Studies (March 2018 J-WEL Week)
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MIT Associate Professor of Cognitive Science Laura Schulz describes the work of MIT's Early Childhood Cognition Lab in its efforts to understand the basic computations and cognitive processes that underlie early learning. She also explains a simple experiment designed to test what children learn about effort and how hard they try at a task after watching an adult struggle to succeed.
Topics: Early Childhood Education Research
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