MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
This motor milestone is linked to more flexible memory retrieval in 9-month-old infants because it increases interaction with the environment.
What is crawling?
According to Dickinson, children need to hear many of these often to support language development.
What are words?
This strategy involves repeating information to remember it.
What is rehearsal?
This approach embeds playful learning prompts (like puzzles or questions) into everyday public spaces to support language, math, and problem-solving.
What are Urban Thinkscapes?
This is the general term for the amount of time a person spends looking at devices like phones, tablets, or televisions.
What is Screen Time?
This milestone typically occurs around 9–12 months and involves pulling up and taking first steps.
What is walking?
This stage of language development includes sounds like “ba-ba” and “da-da.”
What is babbling?
When toddlers had only a few toys, they showed more of this type of attention, staying focused on one toy for a longer time.
What is sustained attention?
These outdoor areas are the most common places for Urban Thinkscapes projects, designed to let kids play and move their bodies while they learn.
What are Playgrounds?
Children today are exposed to media earlier and more frequently due to this modern era.
What is the digital age?
The two main types of motor skills are these.
What are gross and fine motor skills?
This skill helps children recognize and play with sounds in words and is essential for learning to read.
What is phonological awareness?
This refers to the type of engagement between a parent and child in which one party directs the attention of the other to a shared referent such as an object or event.
What is Joint Attention?
This type of education style for children refers to meaningful, engaged, and socially interactive contexts. It encourages children to think and reason instead of passively observing.
What is active learning?
This type of interaction is necessary for children to actually learn from media instead of passively watching.
What is social interaction? (or parent-child interaction)
This reflex appears when an infant is held upright, and the infant steps as if trying to walk.
What is newborn stepping?
This is the process of acquiring vocabulary, grammar, and communication skills to understand and use language.
What is language learning?
This type of memory allows children to hold and use information temporarily, such as remembering where cards are in a matching game.
What is working memory?
Children spend only about this percentage of their waking time in school, making out-of-school environments critical for learning.
What is 20 percent?
A type of parent involvement, such as watching with the child and discussing the content, helps children better understand and learn from screen media.
What is parental mediation?
It’s when infants stay in place and share objects without moving toward the caregiver, and it occurs more often with crawling infants.
What is stationary sharing or distal interaction?
The article How Reading Books Fosters Language Development around the World emphasizes that children learn language best not just by hearing words, but through this type of interactive reading that includes questions and discussion.
What is interactive reading?
This executive functioning skill emerges in preschool age in which children can intentionally override their orienting responses to sustain attention in the presence of distractions.
What is inhibitory control?
One goal of Urban Thinkscapes is encouraging caregiver-child ________.
What is interaction?
This term refers to the difficulty young children have in applying information learned from screens to real-world contexts.
What is Transfer Deficit?