Sally Blake

Sally Blake is an associate professor in early childhood at the University of Memphis. Sally has been the PI on more than $600,000 dollars of Eisenhower funds and $700,000 of NASA funds for teacher training and professional development. Sally Blake was the Director and Co-PI of the NSF sponsored Partnership for Excellence in Teacher Education (PETE) and the Noyce Scholarship program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was also a research fellow with the NSF Center for Research on Educational Reform,(MSP project) a teaching fellow with the NSF Center for Effective Teaching and Learning( MIE project), co-developer of the Research Pedagogical Labs and the MAT degree in the College of Science (MSP project), and Co-PI on the NSF GK-12 grant. She is the Faculty Research Director of the Barbara K. Lipman Early Childhood School and Research Institute.

Publications

Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Sally Blake, Candice M. Burkett. © 2018. 152 pages.
Though creativity is considered an asset in the modern business world, it is currently not being promoted in educational programs. Developing, supporting, and sustaining...
iPods, Internet and Apps, Oh My: Age Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood Educational Environments
iPods, Internet and Apps, Oh My: Age Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood Educational Environments
Sally Blake, Denise L. Winsor, Candice Burkett, Lee Allen. © 2014. 19 pages.
This chapter explores perceptions about technology and young children and includes results of a survey answered by Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) and Early Childhood...
Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap
Technology and Young Children: Bridging the Communication-Generation Gap
Sally Blake, Denise L. Winsor, Lee Allen. © 2012. 326 pages.
Teachers of young children are the technology gatekeepers in childcare programs. They are vital to the appropriate use of technology, yet little is documented concerning training...
Child Development and the Use of Technology: Perspectives, Applications and Experiences
Child Development and the Use of Technology: Perspectives, Applications and Experiences
Sally Blake, Denise L. Winsor, Lee Allen. © 2012. 401 pages.
Children experience technology in both formal and informal settings as they grow and develop. Despite research indicating the benefits of technology in early childhood education...
Mathematics Learning through the Use of Technology
Mathematics Learning through the Use of Technology
Amy M. Smith, Amy R. Gentry, Sally Blake. © 2012. 23 pages.
Technology can capture young children’s attention, motivate them, and help them construct early mathematics concepts in meaningful ways. This chapter examines the nature of...
Socrates and Descartes Meet the E*Trade Baby: The Impact of Early Technology on Children’s Developing Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing
Socrates and Descartes Meet the E*Trade Baby: The Impact of Early Technology on Children’s Developing Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing
Denise L. Winsor, Sally Blake. © 2012. 20 pages.
Personal Epistemology is the study of an individual’s beliefs about the nature of knowledge and the process of knowing (Hofer & Pintrich, 1997). The study of epistemology has...
Historical Perspectives of the Concept of Child and Technology Innovation
Historical Perspectives of the Concept of Child and Technology Innovation
Lee Allen, Denise L. Winsor, Sally Blake. © 2012. 31 pages.
Technology has and does influence the social-cultural development of any population. Some see environment, social, cultural, or philosophical factors as the catalyst for the...
iPods, Internet and Apps, Oh My: Age Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood Educational Environments
iPods, Internet and Apps, Oh My: Age Appropriate Technology in Early Childhood Educational Environments
Sally Blake, Denise L. Winsor, Candice Burkett, Lee Allen. © 2012. 20 pages.
This chapter explores perceptions about technology and young children and includes results of a survey answered by Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) and Early Childhood...
Technology and Social-Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Environments
Technology and Social-Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Environments
Judy Brown, Denise L. Winsor, Sally Blake. © 2012. 17 pages.
The research about the importance of social and emotional roles in learning has increased the focus in many early childhood programs on the social-emotional domains of...
Inquiry and Technology
Inquiry and Technology
Sally Blake, Amy Rebecca Gentry. © 2012. 25 pages.
This chapter will provide research about the intuitive and developing inquiry reasoning in young children, how their teachers perceive science, and ways technology can play a...
Using Technology in Self and Peer Reflective Assessment
Using Technology in Self and Peer Reflective Assessment
Carolyn Awalt, Marsha Lawler, Sally Blake. © 2012. 22 pages.
The use of technology in classrooms is influenced by teacher attitudes. This is particularly true about classroom elements relating to teacher assessment. The issue with...
Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies
Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies
Sally Blake, Satomi Izumi-Taylor. © 2010. 294 pages.
With the ever-present growth in technology, opportunities to explore and experience technology at an early age are increasingly important in order to develop problem-solving and...
Applications of Technology for Instruction and Assessment with Young Children
Applications of Technology for Instruction and Assessment with Young Children
Lee Allen, Sally Blake. © 2010. 18 pages.
This chapter discusses the roles of technology in instruction and assessment of young children. The influx of technology in schools and homes has been rapid and wide spread. Most...
Building Epistemic Awareness in the Early Childhood Classroom: Theory, Methodology, and Technology
Building Epistemic Awareness in the Early Childhood Classroom: Theory, Methodology, and Technology
Denise L. Winsor, Sally Blake. © 2010. 40 pages.
It is evident from the information in the previous chapters in this book that there is much to be learned about how technology fits into the world of early childhood education...
Technology Resources and Software Recommended for Young Children and Teachers and Evaluating Web Sites
Technology Resources and Software Recommended for Young Children and Teachers and Evaluating Web Sites
Lee Allen, Sally Blake, Candice Burkett, Rene Crow, Andrew Neil Gibbons, Michael M. Grant, Satomi Izumi-Taylor, Yu-Yuan Lee, Jorge Lopez, María Eugenia López, Zelda McMurtry, Clif Mims, Vivian Gunn Morris, Cheri Lewis Smith, Denise Winsor. © 2010. 16 pages.
Technology is being designed for children of all ages, even as young as nine months (Morrison, 2007). The software market is growing rapidly for children from infant to preschool...