Module 9 Assignment #1 Overview of Infant Cognitive Development (10/19-10/25)

Watch the Infants: Cognitive Development (2010, Learning Seed) video.  The video is housed in the BLCC library Kanopy video database.  Follow these directions or use this video to access the video.   Complete this handout as you watch the video.

Watch Discoveries in Infancy: Cognitive Development & Learning (Far West Labratory, 1991). Complete this handout while watching the video.

Review this PowerPoint I narrate the Power Point in this video

Read Peterson (2012). Complete this handout as you read the article.

Peterson (2012)

Answer the questions below:

Your best friend heard about a new flash card program that claims to improve baby’s cognitive development. The flash card system is expensive and the program requires her to spend 1 hour a day reviewing flash cards with her baby. Use information from the videos and readings to answer the questions below:

  1. Should your friend purchase and use the flash card system? Why?
  2. Using information from the videos, reading and Power Point, what are important cognitive skills babies 0 to 18 months to develop?
  3. How can infant teachers support babies’ cognitive development? List practices that no one has mentioned yet.

Module 9 Infant Cognitive Development Assignment #4: Self-Reflection (10/19-10/25)

At the end of the semester you will determine your grade for ECE 209 based on your self-assessment of what you have learned. In preparation for your self-assessment, answer the questions below; you will answer these questions at the end of each module so you have a record of what you have learned over the semester. You can answer the questions here on Open Lab or create a journal on Blackboard (which would be private).

  • What did you learn in this module?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from this module better prepare you to work with infants?