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In the present society television has become an integral part of one's life
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educational television
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displacement" theory
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television replaces the time spent reading or doing homework
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Studies have shown that close captioning can improve literacy
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both educational television and close captioning
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shared by g-rooney on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached

need supervision and guidelines for the amount of television to which they are exposed and the types of shows they can access
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constantly in the process of developing their ability to understand information and make sense of what is real and what is pretend
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Exposing children to developmentally inappropriate information and images on television can leave them feeling confused, frightened or upset. This is why choosing appropriate television shows for your children is a critical element of their development.
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many positive benefits
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shared by g-rooney on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached

helps preschool children learn about numbers and the alphabet, and thus helps prepare them for school.
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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.
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who had watched primarily adult programming and entertainment cartoons performed worse on those later tests than would have been expected.
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This study shows that terrific television causes kids to be more receptive to learning, more receptive to reading, more receptive in school," said Peggy Charren, founder of the now-inactive advocacy group Action for Children's Television and now a visiting scholar at Harvard University's School of Education, who has read the new study
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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 than those who had watched more adult programming or noneducational cartoons
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shared by vjbaldwin on 09 Oct 14 - No Cached

Using social platforms and other networking sites can help people reach their career goals more easily, while also educating people who may not know much about a particular field. Education can take place informally merely through the fact that people are interested in a subject.
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Children who regularly text message have BETTER English than those who don't (even if thy use txt spk)Kinzer and Leu (1997) demonstrated positive effects of technology on both learning in a content area and learning to use technology itself.
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Multimedia presentations (video, images, sound, text) can create stronger memory links than text alone. In addition, digital technologies allow instant playbacks, which provide the learner with quick and easy access to different sections of instructional materials than when they are using a textbook.
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