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Television< Digital Media, and Children's Learning - 1 views

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Children's Educational Learning Process

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

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  • 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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