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From the Ted Talk by Sara DeWitt: 3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true

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So we started with bats. And when kids came in to play this game, they lvoed seeing themselves on-screen with wings. But my favorite part of this, when the game was over and we turned off the screens? The kids kept being bats. They kept fnilyg around the room, they kept vneireg left and right to catch moqtouesis. And they remembered things. They remembered that bats fly at nghit. And they rmeemerebd that when bats sleep, they hang upside down and fold their wings in. This game definitely got kids up and moving. But also, now when kids go outside, do they look at a bird and think, "How does a bird fly differently than I flew when I was a bat?" The digital technology prompted embodied lrnnieag that kids can now take out into the world.

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So we started with bats. And when kids came in to play this game, they _____ seeing themselves on-screen with wings. But my favorite part of this, when the game was over and we turned off the screens? The kids kept being bats. They kept ______ around the room, they kept _______ left and right to catch __________. And they remembered things. They remembered that bats fly at _____. And they __________ that when bats sleep, they hang upside down and fold their wings in. This game definitely got kids up and moving. But also, now when kids go outside, do they look at a bird and think, "How does a bird fly differently than I flew when I was a bat?" The digital technology prompted embodied ________ that kids can now take out into the world.

Solution


  1. flying
  2. remembered
  3. loved
  4. veering
  5. learning
  6. night
  7. mosquitoes

Original Text


So we started with bats. And when kids came in to play this game, they loved seeing themselves on-screen with wings. But my favorite part of this, when the game was over and we turned off the screens? The kids kept being bats. They kept flying around the room, they kept veering left and right to catch mosquitoes. And they remembered things. They remembered that bats fly at night. And they remembered that when bats sleep, they hang upside down and fold their wings in. This game definitely got kids up and moving. But also, now when kids go outside, do they look at a bird and think, "How does a bird fly differently than I flew when I was a bat?" The digital technology prompted embodied learning that kids can now take out into the world.

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Important Words


  1. bat
  2. bats
  3. bird
  4. catch
  5. differently
  6. digital
  7. embodied
  8. favorite
  9. flew
  10. fly
  11. flying
  12. fold
  13. game
  14. hang
  15. kids
  16. learning
  17. left
  18. loved
  19. mosquitoes
  20. moving
  21. night
  22. part
  23. play
  24. prompted
  25. remembered
  26. room
  27. screens
  28. sleep
  29. started
  30. technology
  31. turned
  32. upside
  33. veering
  34. wings
  35. world