{"id":22875,"date":"2012-10-02T19:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/young-kids-think-and-learn-about-their\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T19:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:29:59","slug":"young-kids-think-and-learn-about-their","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/young-kids-think-and-learn-about-their\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their findings and learn from their actions and the actions of others \u2014 all in child\u2019s play. A growing body of evidence about this style of learning shows yet again that early childhood education is crucial \u2014 but it also shows making preschool more academic could actually be detrimental, according to scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Kids learn using probabilistic models, approaching the world through patterns and using those patterns to make predictions. This can lead to drastic reformulations of a worldview \u2014 just like scientific experiments can, according to Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Cal and lead author of the new study. For instance, she had kids play with an electronic setup that lights up and plays music, if certain pieces are arranged in a certain way. The kids will try different combinations and arrangements, learning what works and what doesn\u2019t, and change their approaches based on that evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryday playing is a kind of experimentation \u2014 it\u2019s a way of experimenting with the world, getting data the way that scientists do and then using that data to draw new conclusions,\u201d Gopnik said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2012-10\/all-kids-are-junior-scientists\">We Are All Born Scientists, Study Finds | Popular Science<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/myserendipities.tumblr.com\/\">myserendipities<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their findings and learn from their actions and the actions of others \u2014 all in child\u2019s play. A growing body of evidence about this style of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5WX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}