scholarly journals Developing Digital Story Telling and Educational Games to Improve Early Childhood Cognitive Ability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ditta Manullang ◽  
Humuntal Banjarnahor ◽  
Lisbet Simanjuntak
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Digital Story ◽  
Childhood Cognitive Ability

scholarly journals A Meta-Analysis of Stressors from the Total Environment Associated with Children’s General Cognitive Ability

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5451
Author(s):  
Frances M. Nilsen ◽  
Jazmin D.C. Ruiz ◽  
Nicolle S. Tulve
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Early Life Stage ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
General Cognitive Ability ◽  
Childhood Cognitive Ability ◽  
Total Environment

General cognitive ability, often referred to as ‘general intelligence’, comprises a variety of correlated abilities. Childhood general cognitive ability is a well-studied area of research and can be used to predict social outcomes and perceived success. Early life stage (e.g., prenatal, postnatal, toddler) exposures to stressors (i.e., chemical and non-chemical stressors from the total (built, natural, social) environment) can impact the development of childhood cognitive ability. Building from our systematic scoping review (Ruiz et al., 2016), we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate more than 100 stressors related to cognitive development. Our meta-analysis identified 23 stressors with a significant increase in their likelihood to influence childhood cognitive ability by 10% or more, and 80 stressors were observed to have a statistically significant effect on cognitive ability. Stressors most impactful to cognition during the prenatal period were related to maternal health and the mother’s ability to access information relevant to a healthy pregnancy (e.g., diet, lifestyle). Stressors most impactful to cognition during the early childhood period were dietary nutrients (infancy), quality of social interaction (toddler), and exposure to toxic substances (throughout early childhood). In conducting this analysis, we examined the relative impact of real-world exposures on cognitive development to attempt to understand the inter-relationships between exposures to both chemical and non-chemical stressors and early developmental life stages. Our findings suggest that the stressors observed to be the most influential to childhood cognitive ability are not permanent and can be broadly categorized as activities/behaviors which can be modified to improve childhood cognition. This meta-analysis supports the idea that there are complex relationships between a child’s total environment and early cognitive development.

Gestational Age and Cognitive Ability in Early Childhood: a Population-based Cohort Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gry Poulsen ◽  
Dieter Wolke ◽  
Jennifer J Kurinczuk ◽  
Elaine M Boyle ◽  
David Field ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Gestational Age ◽  
Population Based

scholarly journals Pelatihan Pembuatan Alat Permainan Edukatif Berbasis Pendekatan Saintifik bagi Guru PAUD di Kota Palembang

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Hasmalena Lena ◽  
Rukiyah Rukiyah ◽  
Syafdaningsih Syafdaningsih ◽  
Mahyumi Rantina ◽  
Febriyanti Utami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Childhood Play ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Training Activities

Alat Peraga/Permainan Edukatif (APE) bagi anak usia dini memegang peranan penting sebagai media stimulasi, pembelajaran dan permainan, sedangkan bagi guru merupakan sarana yang membantu dalam penyampaian pembelajaran. Pelatihan ini bertujuan agar guru PAUD dapat membuat APE serta untuk mengembangkan keterampilan-keterampilan guru dalam membuat inovasi dalam pembuatan APE untuk anak usia dini. Kegiatan ini dilakukan pada hari Sabtu, 8 Agustus 2020 secara online melalui aplikasi Zoom Meeting. Materi yang disampaikan meliputi, (1) Hakikat alat permainan edukatif, (2) Jenis-jenis APE, (3) Keterampilan pembuatan APE, (4) Langkah-langkah pembuatan APE, dan (5) Praktik pembuatan APE dalam proses pembelajaran sesuai karakteristik anak. Kegiatan pelatihan dilaksanakan melalui aplikasi zoom meeting dengan jumlah 36 orang peserta guru PAUD. Model kegiatan yaitu pendampingan dan metode kegiatan yang digunakan presentasi dan peragaan serta unjuk kerja. Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi terjadi peningkatanan pengetahuan guru-guru PAUD setelah pelatihan, hal ini ditunjukkan dengan hasil bahwa guru mampu membuat rancangan alat permainan edukatif, , guru mempu menerapkan alat permainan edukatif walapun dilakukan secara daring dan guru mampu mengimplementasikan kepada anak tentang alat permainan edukatif berbasis pendekatan saintifik. Teaching aids/educational games (APE) for early childhood play an important role as a medium of stimulation, learning and games, while for teachers, it is a tool that helps in learning delivery. This training aims to make PAUD teachers make APE and develop teaching skills in making innovations in making APE for early childhood. This activity was carried out on Saturday, August 8, 2020, online through the Zoom Meeting application. The materials presented include (1) The nature of educational game tools, (2) Types of APE, (3) Skills for making APE, (4) Steps for making APE, and (5) Practice of making APE in the learning process according to children's characteristics. . The training activities were carried out through the Zoom Meeting application with a total of 36 PAUD teacher participants. The activity model is mentoring and activity methods used by presentations and demonstrations as well as performance. Based on the evaluation results, there was an increase in the knowledge of PAUD teachers after training, and this was shown by the results that teachers were able to design educational game tools, teachers were able to apply educational game tools even though they were done online. Teachers were able to implement to children about scientific approach-based educational game tools.

scholarly journals GENRE-BASED DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE 21st CENTURY EDUCATION: A STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Nadia Tiara Antik Sari ◽  
Nahrowi Adjie ◽  
Gilang Rajasa ◽  
Nuur Wachid Abdul Madjid
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Public University ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
West Java ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Digital Story

ABSTRACT The present study is aimed at investigating the perception of elementary school pre-service teachers regarding the genrebased digital story telling projects in their General English (GE) class. The benefits and challenges of digital storytelling projects have been studied by many researchers. However, perception of elementary school pre-service teachers of the issue is still rarely investigated. The data were collected from open and closed questionnaire to 47 elementary school pre-service teachers of a public university in West Java, Indonesia. In the second semester, they had a GE class (kelas Mata Kuliah Umum/MKU Bahasa Inggris). They were given two genre-based digital storytelling projects i.e. the digital descriptive and narrative text projects. The findings are further explained in relation to the 4Cs skill in 21st century education. It is found that genre-based digital storytelling projects improve the elementary school pre-service teachers’ communication, collaboration, creative thinking, and creativity skill. The pre-service teachers generally perceived the learning as meaningful, engaging, and enjoyable, supporting digital storytelling as a powerful media in the 21st century education.

scholarly journals Early-life circumstances and the risk of function-limiting long-term conditions in later life

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Iveson ◽  
Chris Dibben ◽  
Ian J. Deary
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Functional Limitation ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Childhood Cognitive Ability ◽  
The Life Course

Older adults are particularly prone to function-limiting health issues that adversely affect their well-being. Previous work has identified factors from across the life course –childhood socio-economic status, childhood cognitive ability and education – that predict later-life functional outcomes. However, the independence of these contributions is unclear as later-in-the-life-course predictors are themselves affected by earlier ones. The present study capitalised on the recent linkage of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 with the Scottish Longitudinal Study, using path analyses to examine the direct and indirect associations between life-course predictors and the risk of functional limitation at ages 55 (N = 2,374), 65 (N = 1,971) and 75 (N = 1,534). The odds of reporting a function-limiting long-term condition increased across later life. At age 55, reporting a functional limitation was significantly less likely in those with higher childhood socio-economic status, higher childhood cognitive ability and higher educational attainment; these associations were only partly mediated by other predictors. At age 65, adult socio-economic status emerged as a mediator of several associations, although direct associations with childhood socio-economic status and childhood cognitive ability were still observed. At age 75, only childhood socio-economic status and adult socio-economic status directly predicted the risk of a functional limitation, particularly those associated with disease or illness. A consistent pattern and direction of associations was observed with self-rated health more generally. These results demonstrate that early-life and adult circumstances are associated with functional limitations later in life, but that these associations are partly a product of complex mediation between life-course factors.

scholarly journals Dissecting Biological Pathways of Psychopathology using Cognitive Genomics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Lam ◽  
Chia-Yen Chen ◽  
W. David Hill ◽  
Charley Xia ◽  
Ruoyu Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Genetic Correlation ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Biological Pathways ◽  
General Cognitive Ability ◽  
Gene Sets ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions

Cognitive deficits are known to be related to most forms of psychopathology. Here, we perform local genetic correlation analysis as a means of identifying independent segments of the genome that show biologically interpretable pleiotropic associations between cognitive dimensions and psychopathology. We identified collective segments of the genome, which we call "meta-loci", that showed differential pleiotropic patterns for psychopathology relative to either General Cognitive Ability (GCA) or Non-Cognitive Skills (NCS). We observed that neurodevelopmental gene sets expressed during the prenatal-early childhood predominated in GCA-relevant meta-loci, while post-natal synaptic gene sets were more involved in NCS-relevant meta-loci. Notably, we found that GABA-ergic, cholinergic, and glutamatergic genes drove pleiotropic relationships within dissociable NCS meta-loci.

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