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Listservs: (Online only) This is a place where you can communicate with teachers in early-childhood education, worldwide.

Global Innovations

First Impressions of Early Childhood Education in China - Mary Ellen O'Keefe, Ed.D - in New Horizons for Learning website

ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education -links, resources (online only)

Early Childhood Education Online - website, resources - (online only)

Early Childhood Education Webguide (online only)

The Step by Step Approach - Child-centered, Early Childhood Education in Eastern Europe offers children the opportunity to makechoices about their own learning. Click on the Word icon below to access it:

The Step by Step Approach

Previews of Books on Early Childhood Education

The Child's Reality: Three Developmental Themes - David Elkind - (online only)

The Child's Conception of the World - Jean Piaget - (online only)

Assignment 3: connecting learning to a need

To do this assignment, click on the Word icon below. When it appears, press "Save" so that you can work on this assignment"off-line."

Assignment 3: Connecting Learning to a Need

• Write about one thing you learned while participating in the on-line "global discussion" of Early Childhood Education as suggested on theprevious page. (2-3 paragraphs)
• How are your Early Childhood Education discussions and readings connected to a need in your community? Talk about that connection in 2-3paragraphs.
• Choose 5 different sentences from the various readings in this module. Type the sentences now.
• Under each sentence make a list of 2-3 possible projects/activities that sentence sparks for you.
• Re-read what you have written in step 4. Choose any 1 project/activity and say more about the possibility of that project -what resources do you have to complete it? What resources do you need? What thoughts come to mind as it relates to that possible project? (2-3paragraphs)
• Choose 1 other possible project/activity from your list, and write about it in 2-3 paragraphs.
• Send your work to your learning circle. Share feedback from yourcohort. What new ideas are sparked for you in talking to your cohort? Describe them here.

When you're done with this assignment and your mentor says you're "Ready," continue onto Part Three of this course: Designing andImplementing Your Service Project.

Overview

Literacy is the ability to read, write, and calculate in one's local language.

How many of us know what it is like to be an adult and illiterate in one's own language? It's hard to imagine the humiliation, thefrustration, and the rage that many people have to live with day after day.

Literacy creates access to information, and, therefore, an increase in health, livelihood, and civic participation.Literacy contributes to self-respect and self-reliance. It empowers men and women and it strengthens communities.

2003 is the beginning of the literacy decade, according to the United Nations, and with this declaration, the UN aims to: