Giant Atom creates animatic dramatizations of children's picture books. The Picture Book combines still images and animation to bring the book to life. It is read by professional narrators or authors with read-a-long highlighted text.
When combined with the Giant Atom ATOMIC READER, the Animated picturebook becomes a powerful reading tool, igniting your child's imagination, while integrating fun and learning at the same time. The Atomic Reader enables your child to read the book by touching the words and hearing them spoken.
""Hebb found that learning occurred, by the subject experiencing two simultaneous activities."
In the activity of learning to read, synaptic strength is built by listening to the sound of the word and seeing the word or seeing the word and associating it with a picture.
The Science of Learning to Read
The Brain Fitness Program - A recent documentary created by the public broadcasting company WLIW21 explored the inner workings of brain development. One particular finding that caught our attention at Giant Atom was the way human beings learn. As it turns out learning is based on synaptic changes in the brain. The ground breaking pioneer who discovered the relationship between synaptic changes and learning was Donald Hebb.
A Canadian Psychologist who hypothesized how changes in the synaptic strengths can account for learning.
Hebb found that learning occurred, by the subject experiencing two simultaneous activities. In the activity of learning to read synaptic strength is built by listening to the sound of the word and seeing the word or seeing the word and associating it with a picture.
It's not the repeated exposure to a single event that mattered to Hebb. It's the coincident activities that are presented by any important experience. By the Hebb rule neurons are co-strengthened because they co-occur. The theory is often summarized as cells that fire together, wire together'.
What this means for children learning to read is that the combination of words, picture and sound are the ingredients needed to build synaptic structures in their brains at a critical time of development.