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Language&LearningLab

@LangLearn_TO

We are a child development research group at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Prof. Patricia Ganea.

 Toronto, ON, Canada
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Joined April 2014
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Adam Bulley@Adamdbulley1 Nov 2022
A new special issue in Phil Trans B takes aim at one of the most fascinating aspects of the mind: the ability to think about possibilities. What might happen next? What might have happened but didn't? How do we get to grips with possible worlds? A thread 🧵...
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Myrto Grigoroglou@MGrigoroglou31 Oct 2022
Paper is part of the #PhilTransB theme issue “Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny” royalsocietypublishing.org/t…. Special thanks to Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea @LangLearn_TO for editing and @NSERC_CRSNG and @SSHRC_CRSH for funding (5/5).
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Myrto Grigoroglou@MGrigoroglou31 Oct 2022
Our review paper “Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities” is out 🎉. w. Patricia Ganea @LangLearn_TO royalsocietypublishing.org/d… a 🧵(1/n)
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Today's #PhilTransB theme issue explores our capacity to imagine different possibilities; how this ability develops, what it enables, and how it evolved. ow.ly/iWSb50Lj131 @UQPsych @LangLearn_TO
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Stuart Ritchie
@StuartJRitchie11 Oct 2022
My new post is about Growth Mindset, and how the claims about it have diminished over time. Is this the fabled “decline effect”? And what does it have to do with Gerry Adams? stuartritchie.substack.com/p…
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Strouse, G. A., & Ganea, P. A. (2021). Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101574. doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.202… @GabStrouse @LangLearn_TO 24/n🧵
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🚨Now available📢 Special Issue on digital media & children under 3 yrs of age, which I guest edited (w/ Martha Arterberry @ColbyChildDev) at Infant Behavior & Development. We hope it will inspire new questions & innovations in this field. THREAD of 25 papers, please RT! 1/n🧵
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IT'S HERE! Please take a look at our new open-access PNAS paper, “Gender stereotypes about interests start early and cause gender disparities in computer science and engineering”! (1/n) pnas.org/content/118/48/e210…
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Elizabeth Canning@dr_canning19 Aug 2021
Are you rushing to finish your syllabus? Consider adding some growth mindset language! Our new paper out this week in SPPS shows that faculty who signal a growth mindset about ability narrow gender gaps in STEM. Here's what we found: 1/ tinyurl.com/6zfyp4s4
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University of Toronto@UofT19 Aug 2021
#UofT engineering & life sciences students to test how changes in gravity affect human genetics 🚀 uoft.me/6-a
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👏Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Ganea on being promoted to Professor! Professor Ganea is an internationally recognized researcher on children’s early cognitive development, with a focus on the social, linguistic and representational factors that influence children’s learning.
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Daniel Willingham@DTWillingham15 Jul 2021
Amazing. Researchers at @UCSF have developed a device that interprets neural signals meant to control the vocal tract, translate them into text, displayed on a screen; a paralyzed person can thus speak. 50 words so far. ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946…
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H1 Connect@H1Connect4 Mar 2021
A world of pure imagination: @Ori_Friedman highlights this paper by @angelanyh & @LangLearn_TO on the development of #counterfactualreasoning and the age at which this ability for what if #imagination is first shown by #children facultyopinions.com/prime/73…
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Daniel Willingham@DTWillingham28 Feb 2021
When kids ask for help, should you give them the answer right away, or is that robbing them of the pleasure of figuring it out on their own, and building resilience? What's the right mix of support and challenge? My take in @latimesopinion latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
Contributor: Twitter condemns dad who let daughter struggle to open a can. What should he have done?

Contributor: Twitter condemns dad who let daughter struggle to open a can. What should he have done?

After a daughter asked her dad how to use a can opener, he let her struggle to figure it out. When kids ask for help, how should you respond?

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Daniel Willingham@DTWillingham5 Feb 2021
Not teaching it in teacher prep isn't enough...need to explain why it's not right, why it seems right, and offer better ways of thinking about student variation. digest.bps.org.uk/2021/02/04…
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Concerned that your child's screen time increased during their virtual school year? This article highlights the important social skills, connection, and creativity that your child may be gaining from these new digital experiences! nytimes.com/2021/01/20/paren…
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Nov 25: Save the Date! Join us at our next Laidlaw Student Research Seminar with Vaunam Venkadasalam (5th year PhD Student) speaking on "Learning Physical Science Concepts: A Kindergarten Study". RSVP here: bit.ly/Nov25LaidlawSem
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@greg_ashman13 Nov 2020
NEW TODAY Education research - the evidence gregashman.wordpress.com/202… via @greg_ashman #aussieED #ukedchat #edchat #education #edreform
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Michael C. Frank
@mcxfrank29 Oct 2020
Learning From Video: A Meta‐Analysis of the Video Deficit in Children Ages 0 to 6 Years, by Strouse & Samson: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… Kids under three appear to learn less from video (d ~= .5), though with some likely publication bias.
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.@UofTfamilycare is offering a new virtual workshop series for parents called Loving to Learn. Participants will learn how to encourage a love of language, math, numeracy skills and more. The series is best suited for parents with kids ages two to 10. familycare.utoronto.ca/resou…
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