A new line of Sony televisions introduced Tuesday allows people to use the
Internet while watching their favorite shows – minus the set-top box that
competing systems require. And they will be the first TV’s on the market to run
Google TV, Google’s new operating system for Internet-connected televisions.
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3-D television expected to come to homes in 2010 - CNN.com - 0 views
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no more class field trips to the imax once this comes out
Sony Unveils the First Google TV - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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The technology takes into account the inevitable desire by consumers to multitask. People who open a Web page while watching football, for instance, can still keep an eye on the game in a small box near the bottom of the screen.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS Receive Ready To Learn Grant Funding fr... - 1 views
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There could be some real potential here for use of grants beyond the television screen. I'd be interested to track how this money is allocated across platforms, especially emerging ones like apps for phones/iPads.
The Situation - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views
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Google pulled all their ads on October 26th, due to TOS violations on the part of the wiki and forums — specifically "adult and mature content" on pages that carried Google Adsense ads. These ads provided far and away the majority of the site's operating budget.
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Turn off anonymous editing in the wiki. This is so that we can tell Google, "See, we do have standards, and we can identify and take action against people who violate them." This has already been implemented.
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Segregate "adult and mature content" behind some sort of barrier that you will have to explicitly agree to go through. This has been implemented
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TV Tropes is being very transparent about creating a moderation system for the content. This is in response to loosing advertising dollars from Google. It is interesting to see the outline for their model of moderating content. Some of these elements could be used in a web 2.0 environment for education
Is SpongeBob SquarePants Bad for Children? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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A recent study about fast-paced television programs and children's development finds that attention, problem solving and other skills under the umbrella of "executive function" are harmed by watching some shows.
Kinect TV And Sesame Street Hack The Next Generation Of TV - 0 views
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Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic. I was actually working at Sesame when this idea was first introduced. Many were skeptical but I'm glad to see they are going to try and utilize this technological movement forward.
Technology Review: An Advert for In-Game Violence - 0 views
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A team of European and U.S. researchers found ads displayed along with violent scenes to be more memorable to players than those shown with nonviolent content, even though players spent less time looking at them. The results are contrary to expectations stemming from research on television, where violence has been shown to decrease attention to advertisements. Developing a better understanding of the way advertising works in games could help game companies enhance their advertising strategies.
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Those who played a violent version of the game, where the goal was to run down pedestrians, resulting in a blood-splattered screen, demonstrated significantly better recall of advertised brands than those who played the regular version. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Entertainment Computing last year.
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The unholy marrage of violent gaming and hightened advert recall...Clearly there are educational implications to be considered here.
Content Matters | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views
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Just as all those Baby Einstein DVDs backfired, we’re just beginning to learn that arcade video games seem to produce reliable and persistent cognitive benefits:
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The brain, as always, is a category buster. It excels at shredding our neat preconceptions and abstract classifications. We like to speculate about technology in general, about the neural effects of television and computers and tablets, but these tools are only incidental
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Jonah Lehrer on surprising effects of tech on cognition
Will Wright Takes the Sims to Current TV with Bar Karma | Magazine | Wired.com - 1 views
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Earlier this month, Current TV announced its new tv series, Bar Karma, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2011. Created by game designer Will Wright, known for his popular video games including The Sims and SimCity, Bar Karma’s production model promises to provide a high level of audience involvement with the show
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Interactive tv Perhaps educators could have an impact if they coordinated?
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This is a really interesting and cool idea. I know that Disney's intense storyboarding model in its 'golden age' relied on months and sometimes years of collaborative, co-creation of a story between 10s-100s of people. And their decline in quality is often attributed to adopting a one-author/screenwriter process (The book: The Illusion of Life, Disney Animation; by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston talks about the company's process with lots of beautiful illustrations, how-to advice, and historical narratives..). What will happen when the general public, with potentially 1000s to millions of viewers put their minds together to evolve the best story?
Broadcast stations use high school sports covered by students - 1 views
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Learning by doing.
Education Week: Pre-K Lessons Linked to TV Produce Gains in Literacy, Study Says - 0 views
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on average made significant gains in acquiring skills such as naming letters, knowing the sounds associated with those letters, and understanding concepts about stories and printed words
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Research study on how TV, and educational interactive video games improves the literacy of low-income, Pre-K children.
Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children, Study Finds - 1 views
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There's an emerging "app gap" in which affluent children are likely to use mobile educational games while those in low-income families are the most likely to have televisions in their bedrooms. Parents are increasingly allowing their young children to use IPads and IPhones apps for learning and entertaining.
Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America | Common Sense Media - 1 views
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Thanks for this, Anna. I saw this group as part of an interview on ABC about iPads. Their data really gets me thinking about the educational and home space and how we need to design content to leverage the technology that is most accessible to them - and the iPad isn't the "golden ticket" (at least in this age span). -
CommonSense is a strong organization - they have a comprehensive database of reviews of content, so if you are a parent looking for the low down on a media product (whether it be a TV show, video game, movie, etc.), commonsense is a good place to get an overview of the product. I have heard arguments, however, that their tendency is to be more conservative in their reviews. May not work for every parent, but definitely a good resource! For other groups like this one, check out the following: Temple's Media Education Lab, http://mediaeducationlab.com/ ; Children Now, http://www.childrennow.org/index.php/learn/talking_with_kids//television.html ; The LAMP http://www.thelampnyc.org/ ; and Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/
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