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Watch Elmo join Priscilla Chan to promote a new literacy program

09.12.2019 · Posted in Education Articles, Technology Articles
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Sometimes, even Elmo needs to be reminded that it's OK to fail.  In the video above, Elmo attends a classroom in which a teacher uses blocks to demonstrate how an engineer might build a bridge. Elmo tries to help but the bridge collapses. He is discouraged but the teacher and a student comfort him, saying he can still be an engineer even if he doesn't get it right at first. The video was released to promote a new literacy curriculum for children ages 3 to 5 that "will integrate social emotional learning into early childhood literacy lessons," according to a press release. The curriculum is a partnership between Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which utilizes technology to encourage global progress and which Chan co-founded with husband Mark Zuckerberg, and The Primary School, a California school Chan also co-founded. Read more... More about Education, Social Good, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Social Good

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