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The Good Things About Television | MediaSmarts - 0 views

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  • A 2009 study of Canadian TV aimed at youth found that among shows aimed at preschoolers, nearly half focused on social relationships, while a third focused on learning, with none focusing on fighting or violence.
  • With more and more ways of viewing TV available we now have access to a plethora of both good quality and inappropriate TV content. In this crowded television environment, the key is to provide young children with a guided viewing experience and to model and teach them the critical thinking skills they need to be active, engaged viewers. Television  offers lots of benefits to kids: Because of its ability to create powerful touchstones, TV enables young people to share cultural experiences with others. TV can act as a catalyst to get kids reading—following up on TV programs by getting books on the same subjects or reading authors whose work was adapted for the programs. Television can teach kids important values and life lessons. Educational programming can develop young children’s socialization and learning skills. News, current events and historical programming can help make young people more aware of other cultures and people. Documentaries can help develop critical thinking about society and the world. TV can help introduce youth to classic Hollywood films and foreign movies that they might not otherwise see. Cultural programming can open up the world of music and art for young people.
  • These themes did appear in Canadian programs aimed at kids ages 6-12, but represented only one in 10 shows: social relationships, adventure and learning were all found much more often.
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Why to Avoid TV Before Age 2 - HealthyChildren.org - 0 views

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  • Imagine a ball in real life and a ball on TV. Infants are developing 3-dimensional vision. The world of the screen exists in 2 dimensions, so the ball is just a flat, shaded circle. If you roll a ball across the floor it proceeds in a single motion, slowing gradually until it stops. The same action on TV is broken up—you see the ball leave someone’s hand, then there’s a shot of it in motion, then a picture of the ball at rest. If your infant wants to grab a ball in real life he’ll lunge for it, grasp at it, or crawl after it. The stuff on the screen just disappears, to be replaced by other stuff; you can never get your hands (or mouth) on it.
  • t’s a bad idea for children to watch TV before age 2.
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TV viewing linked to adult violence - 28 March 2002 - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • TV watching increases the risk of violence by five times.
  • Watch an hour of prime time TV, and you will probably witness three to five violent acts.
  • Johnson found that 45 per cent of the men who had watched three hours or more at age 14 went on to commit an aggressive act against another person, compared to just nine per cent of the men who had spent less than an hour in front of the tube. Over 20 per cent of the three-hour-a day group went on to commit robbery, threaten to injure someone or use a weapon to commit a crime.
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  • 17 per cent had committed an aggressive act, compared to none in the group watching less than an hour a day.
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Study Ties Television Viewing to Aggression; Adults Affected As Well As Children - Comm... - 0 views

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  • "People who watch more than three hours of TV are different than those who watch less than an hour."
  • Of the group that watched less than an hour of TV a day, 5.7 percent had committed a violent act that resulted in serious injury, such as a broken bone. Among those who watched one to three hours, 18.4 percent had been violent. Of those who watched more than three hours a day, the rate of aggression was 25.3 percent.
  • While 1.2 percent of the adults who watched less than one hour per day had committed a violent act, 10.8 percent of those who watched three or more hours had inflicted a bruise, scar or other assault.
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Kids' screen time a predictor of future health problems - News and Events - University ... - 0 views

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  • n a world-first study University of Sydney researchers have found six-year-olds who spent the most time watching television had narrower arteries in the back of their eyes, increasing their chances of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes in later life.
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"SpongeBob" hinders kids' minds, quickly: study - CBS News - 0 views

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  • Most kids were white and from middle-class or wealthy families. They were given common mental function tests after watching cartoons or drawing. The SpongeBob kids scored on average 12 points lower than the other two groups, whose scores were nearly identical.
  • In another test, measuring self-control and impulsiveness, kids were rated on how long they could wait before eating snacks presented when the researcher left the room. "SpongeBob" kids waited about 2 1/2 minutes on average, versus at least four minutes for the other two groups.
  • "The recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics," Levine noted, "is that children under two watch no television at all, and for children older than two, you want to limit their combined media use, which includes computers and video games, to two hours a day. And we also want to be careful about the type of programming our children are watching. It's not just the quantity, but the type, too."
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How TV affects your kids : ... - 0 views

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  • According to the AP, the problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch "SpongeBob," or the slower-paced PBS cartoon "Caillou" or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments, the kids took mental function tests. Those who had watched "SpongeBob" did measurably worse than the others.
  • "Although the study is limited due to its choice of a non-diverse population, no pre-testing of its subjects and a small sample size (60), it certainly raises red flags that parents need to be very diligent as to what their children are watching and when," Creighton said. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV under the age of 2 and less than two hours per day of total media time (which includes computers, DS games, video games, and movies) for children older than two, Creighton said. "These recommendations seem reasonable, but very hard to enforce in a multiple-child household."
  • Cristine Zawatson, principal at the Blackheath Road Pre-Kindergarten Center in Long Beach, agrees television shows such as "SpongeBob" are not age-appropriate for pre-K children. "Children look at the characters on TV as role models, and we have to make sure we monitor what they're watching," Zawatson said. Before you let your child watch something, watch it first, she suggests. "Peruse a program and make sure it's age-appropriate for your child," Zawatson said.
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The Effects of Television Violence on Children: Testimony of Dr. Dale Kunkel, Universit... - 0 views

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  • (1) children’s learning of aggressive attitudes and behaviors; (2) desensitization, or an increased callousness towards victims of violence; and (3) increased or exaggerated fear of being victimized by violence.
  • 1. Violence is widespread across the television landscape.
  • 2. Most violence on television is presented in a manner that increases its risk of harmful effects on child-viewers.
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  • 3. The overall presentation of violence on television has remained remarkably stable over time.
  • Turn on a television set and pick a channel at random; the odds are better than 50-50 that the program you encounter will contain violent material. To be more precise, 60% of approximately 10,000 programs sampled for the National Television Violence Study contained violent material.
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Family Works - Effects of Violence on Television Can Impact Family Values - 1 views

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  • Effects of Violence on Television Can Impact Family Values
  • Children who are already aggressive or have an aggressive nature are attracted to and tend to watch more violent TV.
  • They may gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems.
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Television (TV) and Children: Your Child: University of Michigan Health System - 0 views

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  • Does TV affect children's brain development?
  • What about TV and aggressive or violent behavior?
  • TV viewing may replace activities that we know help with school performance, such as reading, doing homework, pursuing hobbies, and getting enough sleep.
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