We hope you can join us for our
Parent Enrichment Afternoon on
Thursday, February 18th from 3:00 to
5:00
Cindy, Paola, and Stuart will share their work with
the children as they
Explore the World of Sound.
Learn along with us by logging onto the links below
and come ready to be a part of the dialogue.
“It
would seem that silence would be a rare and choice experience to have in our
modern world. However, there will always be noise and it is the decisions we
make about orchestrating our soundscape that will be important to us and our
future generations. Teaching children about the soundscape and helping them
understand that they can create options for the environment is important. Sound
pollution is one of the major problems over which we do have control if we give
it attention. That attention comes through learning and awareness.”
Gary Ferrington, University of Oregon’s College of Education
http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/openear/readings/ferrington/kidsnoise.html
“If you don’t pay attention to sounds, they disappear,” he
said. “On the other hand, many visual stimuli are stable and stationary. This
preference for sounds makes sense in the case of learning language. If infants
and young children didn’t favor sounds, it is difficult to explain how they
could pick up language.” Vladimir Sloutsk Professor
in the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State University.