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Studies Support Benefits of Educational TV for Reading: EBSCOhost - 1 views

  • The article discusses the educational benefits of television viewing by children. The author suggests that educational television programs can teach skills such as letter and sound recognition and cultivate a love for reading. Other topics include infusing learning into television programming, children's television audiences, and sedentary behavior.
  • From the earliest days of "Sesame Street" nearly four decades ago, educational television has earned high praise and millions of fans for entertaining and educating young children.
  • While learning experts surely agree that too much television and inappropriate content can have detrimental effects on children, the right kinds of programs can set them on the path toward reading."I'm a big supporter of media technology and I do agree that kids spend far too much time with television and other media," said Milton Chen, who in the mid-1990s helped launch the Ready to Learn Service, a partnership between the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, and the U.S. Department of Education to create educational programming, "But I come out on the side that specific television programs and experiences can very much support literacy."Well-designed programs can teach distinct skills such as letter and sound recognition, as well as cultivate a love of reading, said Mr. Chen, the director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation in San Rafael, Calif. As the director of research earlier in his career for the Children's Television Workshop, which has since been renamed Sesame Workshop, Mr. Chen helped to design and test some of the lessons embedded in programs like "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company."
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  • Many parents since then have observed firsthand the effectiveness of those lessons, such as one on "Sesame Street" that featured Y as the letter of the day and was accompanied by Grammy winner Norah Jones singing her song, "Don't Know Why." Or when Synonym Sam, the girl genius character on "Between the Lions," demonstrated the meaning of sets of words like "walk," "strut," and "stride."There is now growing empirical evidence that such carefully crafted segments deliver an academic punch.
  • A federally financed study released last month, for example, found that "WordWorld," a program funded under the Ready to Learn initiative, helps preschool children learn oral vocabulary and featured words.
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics has recognized that some television programming has benefits. But the Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based organization urges parents to avoid television viewing altogether for children under age 2, a prime audience for many programs, because it may be detrimental to their brain development.
  • The best programs, she said, create content that reflects research on how children learn and test it out on children prior to putting it on television. While public television tends to dominate the educational market, she said that the cable stations Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel have also found success in promoting children's learning on shows such as "Blues Clues" and "Little Einsteins.""When they do these things and kids understand them and like them, the shows are really successful," Ms. Linebarger said, adding that the commercial success can often underwrite the costly development process.
  • PBS is reaching out to parents and caregivers through social networking tools, such as Twitter, to provide reminders and daily strategies for nurturing language development and background knowledge, precursors to reading. Public-television officials are also devising initiatives to train early childhood professionals to use educational television and other digital media to promote learning goals.
  • That's why television focused on learning is a valuable asset worthy of public support, said Susan T. Zellman, the vice president for education and children's content at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit organization established by Congress that underwrites public television and radio services."These characters are engaging, and the kids are drawn into [lessons] by the characters and the stories, so you motivate them to learn," she said. "Educational television is so powerful and the research is so compelling." www.edweek.org/go/research
  • By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
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30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational - Edudemic - 0 views

  • Sesame Street Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a children’s television show that would “master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them”, such as helping young children prepare for school. After two years of research, the newly formed Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) received a combined grant of $8 million from Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, and the US federal government to create and produce a new children’s television show. Harold (Doc) Howe II, the US Commissioner of Education, and a friend of Morrisett, provided the first $4 million after brain-storming with his staff how to best reach inner city children via the TV antennas on their roofs with excellent pre-school TV programming which would have behind it, careful formative and summative research on best practices. Since no funds were earmarked for this, Howe decided to use research funds for the initial CTW start-up grant and that began the practice of each segment of Sesame Street being the result of carefully conducted R&D. One of his assistants, Harold C. Lyon, wrote his doctoral dissertation on integrating the affective with the cognitive. Howe appointed Lyon the U.S. Office of Education’s project officer for Sesame Street and the Electric Company where he met with the CTW Advisory Board using his influence to integrate the affective with the cognitive content of Sesame Streets program content for more indelible learning
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Using television for literacy skills | Open Society Institute (OSI) - Baltimore | Audac... - 0 views

  • First, children watch a lot of TV – on average four hours a day, which turns out to be more time than they spend in school each year.
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      Kids relax too. There usually comes a point in the day where they've just ran around in circles for far too long and their little bodies can't handle anymore physical excitment, and they need to unplug.
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      TVs aren't an uncommon thing to have in a home. When I was growing up, living in a small apartment, with 2 loving parents who didn't make a whole lot of income, I had a TV in my house. Barney and Thomas were on every single day. According to www.neilson.com, there's an estimated 116.3 million American homes with telivisons.
  • Second, having print and reading materials at home helps kids learn to read. And, the more they read, the better they read. Unfortunately, more than 30% of city children live in poor households which tend to have few books or reading materials.  One study found that poor families had, on average, less than one book per household.
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      I'm pretty spoiled. I have at least 600 comic book in my collection, at least 100 hundred Nat Geo's everything that Tolkien wrote ever, and all 5 A Song of Ice and Fire books (also all of my dad's books in his collection). But do you? I mean if you do that's pretty awesome and we should be besties. But me and you compared to thousands of other people? The average home does not have all of these books to read from. As Ms. Jane said, they maybe have one book. But remember there is a large amount of homes with televsions in them.
  • The third reason is that TVs must all have the technology to show captions and most programs and movies must have written transcripts. So, if you turn on your TV’s captioning feature, the words that are spoken – and many of the sounds as well – will appear in writing at the bottom of your screen
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      Preach! So the ability to help kids read and spell CAN be acheived through a televison? I loved having the captions on as a kid. I think I turned them on so that my Irish mother wouldn't release her fury on me fore having the TV turned up too loud. It honestly did have a positive outcome on me. It made me a faster reader and a better speller. This lasted to when I was in middle school and I for some reason just finally stopped doing it.
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    So this article focuses on a few different things. One of them however is not how television HAS improved on literacy skills. The article focus on a few over looked things like: 1. How common televisions are in a home. 2. The average amount of other resources that are in a home, that can be used to help improve literacy skills. 3. The average amount of televisions in a home versus the average amount of other literacy improving resources in a home. 4. How Television CAN help improve Literacy Skills in such a mind blowing, basic way, that you may ask yourself why "Why haven't people been doing this all along?"
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Educational TV May Boost Intellectual Development | Center for Media Literacy - 0 views

  • But what and how much they watch makes a difference Preschool children who watched a few hours a week of educational programming perform better on achievement tests over time than their peers who watch more general entertainment shows, according to researchers at the University of Texas in Austin.Dr. Aletha C. Huston, of the University of Texas in Austin.
  • Preschool children who watched a few hours a week of educational programming perform better on achievement tests over time than their peers who watch more general entertainment shows, according to researchers at the University of Texas in Austin.Dr. Aletha C. Huston, of the University of Texas in Austin
  • Each year, the children's reading, math and vocabulary skills were assessed. The researchers found that younger children, especially those aged 2 and 3, who watched a few hours a week of educational
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  • programs had higher scoring on academic tests 3 years later than children who did not watch the programs.
  • "Viewing of educational programming was associated with better school readiness and better academic skills," Huston noted. "Watching educational television may be an important vehicle for children to get some early learning that can really make a positive contribution." Huston notes
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    Children proved to be more school ready after watching a few hours of EDUCATIONAL TV over X amount of years. As opposed to Children watching Entertainment television. Educational television proves to be a valid resource for knowledge in our childrens development
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Effects of an educational television program on preschoolers: Variability i...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • his study examined the cognitive effects of an educational early childhood television program in Turkey that was designed to enhance basic cognitive skills and socio-emotional development of 5-year-old children. The program targeted children with low socioeconomic status who had limited access to formal preschool education.
  • The program was screened for a period of 13 weeks and was evaluated with an experimental design, with the addition of a natural observation group. Findings indicated that the program functioned as an early educational intervention for those children who had moderate exposure to it.
  • Furthermore, compensatory effects were found, such that those children who had low levels of skills prior to the viewing of the program benefited more than their skilled peers.
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  • The policy implications are important for enhancing school readiness among children in socioeconomically deprived contexts. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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Study Finds Educational TV Lends Preschoolers Even Greater Advantages - New York Times - 3 views

  • A new study, being released today, takes that conclusion two steps further. It found that preschoolers in low-income areas around Kansas City who had watched educational television programming, including "Sesame Street," not only were better prepared for school but actually performed better on verbal and math tests as late as age 7 than would have been expected otherwise.
  • A new study, being released today, takes that conclusion two steps further. It found that preschoolers in low-income areas around Kansas City who had watched educational television programming, including "Sesame Street," not only were better prepared for school but actually performed better on verbal and math tests as late as age 7 than would have been expected otherwise.
  • "This study shows that terrific television causes kids to be more receptive to learning, more receptive to reading, more receptive in school,"
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  • The study also found that among these children, those who had watched children's educational programs in general and "Sesame Street" in particular spent more time reading
  • Dr. Zill said Westat's study had found that both school readiness and reading ability were higher in children who had watched "Sesame Street" and other educational programming.
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Quality Television Shows that Focus on Early Literacy - 0 views

  • The good news is, watching developmentally appropriate programming with your children can have many positive benefits (bonding between caregiver and child, the introduction of new vocabulary words, exploring new places together, etc.). Thankfully, there are lots of exceptional television shows for young children that are fun and engaging and that can help children build their early literacy skills along the way.
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  • Jack's Big Music Show
  • Sesame Street
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Television Research Study . . PBS KIDS - 1 views

  • This three-part report from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, researches the impact educational programming has on school readiness and early literacy skills, and its long-term benefits into adolescence. This study offers producers and educators an overview of the essential elements of educational television that can support the development of language and literacy abilities in young children.
  • Television Study Report [397KB pdf]
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    With Educational Television kids are learning faster and are more school ready.
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Children's Educational Television | FCC.gov - 0 views

  • Background Recent data indicates that children in the United States on average spend more than three hours a day watching television. This invited “guest” into our homes has the potential to significantly shape our children’s development. In view of this, Congress determined that broadcast television stations – both commercial and non-commercial – have an obligation to offer educational and informational children’s programming. In addition, television licensees, cable operators and satellite providers must limit the amount of commercials aired during children’s programs. In 1990, Congress enacted the Children’s Television Act (CTA) to increase the amount of educational and informational programming for children available on television.
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    CTA supports Educational tv programming
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