Hi people of Brill Kids,
I haven’t done much research on the topic (this is officially my starting point) but I’ve read that expanding a child’s picture vocabulary is a good start at memory training and improvement. (This was also mentioned in a post by Dr Miles R Jones a couple of days ago.)
How important is it to isolate one picture from all the others (in a Doman Bit fashion?) Is it fine to use books with multiple related pictures on one page?
http://www.youtube.com/v/h_sMTlWZp7M&rel=1With pictures, a child doesn’t really get a feel for the properties of that object, like weight, texture, size, how an object moves etc, obviously the gaps can be filled with later experiences of these objects, but I always wonder about the impact this will have on a child’s view of his world. (To today, the first thing that pops into my head when someone says “elephant” is a pink cartoon elephant, yet I know very well what an elephant looks like in the real world.)
Another question that has been raised recently is how to categorise EK to add meaning to it. Is just doing EK bits grouped into meanuful catagories but without any facts along with it, a waste of time? Do you think that helps train memory?