Oberving the data throughout this essay, the best solution is
to use both educational television and close captioning. First
of all, educational television has been shown to increase literacy
and cultural knowledge thus should be integrated into the classroom.
Teachers should used educational television as a learning tool
and to spur interest in academics. Secondly, parents should use
close captioning in order to reverse the effects of non education
television. Since television has been shown to displace reading,
close captioning integrates both television and reading into one
activity. Close captioning would allow the child to view television
but at the same time read the captioning, thus increase literacy.
These two factors are capable of reversing the negative effects
of television and allow a new generation of children to increase
literacy with the aid of technology.
Ashley Rocco on 15 Apr 13This research paper addresses literacy skills in 9 and ten year old children who have never owned a mobile phone. Children were pretested to indicate their current readying, spelling and other literary skills. Children who had owned a mobile phone however tested significantly higher. Those who had not owned a mobile phone were observed over a 10-week period in which at the end they were retested for these same skills. These skills increased drastically. "In summary, this study has shown that allowing children access to mobile phones for text messaging over a 10-week period does not significantly advantage or disadvantage the children. However, textism use during texting was linked to spelling development and the number of messages send and received was linked to lexical retrieval skills."
