For my A-Level Critical Research i am finding research on: How educational is childrens television?
I've decided to look at programmes between the ages of 1-8. What are your views? I need peoples opinions and ideas please.
Do you think children learn from television? From what age? Does television help or hinder education for young children?
If you have any links or extra information for me to look at it would be much appriciated.
Thanks for reading everyone. Hope to hear from you all soon x
2006-10-29 01:13:47 · 11 answers · asked by Ria.A 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Preschool
Television has to be monitored for young children! It CAN be educational - a lot of it is junk IMHO!
Sitting down with a child and reading books or doing a jigsaw is far more educational to a child than plonking them in front of a TV! Social interaction between parent and child is always beneficial! (OK this is coming from a person who has 2 diplomas in child development, worked with children and I have 2 of my own now - one of which taught himself to read and could do 100 piece jigsaws at the age of 3!)
TV is too passive - to learn properly and to stimulate their minds children need active activities! I'd say TV should be limited to a max of 30 mins per day! Get out the play dough otherwise and have some creative fun!
Hope this is of use for your essay - all the best
PS we only bought a TV about 6 years ago - we didn't have one for about 8 years while our children were growing up!
2006-10-30 05:14:07 · answer #1 · answered by Home_educator 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, I'm not sure if i am right, but i personally think that the educational programs for little kids today are not too effective. Where I go to school, (which teaches from k-8th) I know for a fact that over 70% of the kids in the younger grades are not as smart as my grade(8) was when we were their age. By the time we were eight we knew way more than the kids do today.
2006-10-29 11:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by gspress_3_years 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My nearly-two daughter and three-and-a-half year old son enjoy speaking Spanish which they learn from Dora the Explorer! However, I limit their viewing to 'educational' programmes, such as 'Little Einsteins' (learning about the world) and Higglytown Heroes (being co-operative and helping other people). My son can count up to 10 in Spanish and he's very proud of his achievements - so am I!
2006-10-29 01:23:47 · answer #3 · answered by Roxy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is now 31 and I can not tell you how many wonderful things she learned from Sesame Street. I don't know about shows these days because there are no children at our house, but I will sing the praises of this Golden Oldie as long as I live.
2006-10-30 09:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Pearl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sesame street was the best ever. entertaining, numbers and alphabet and they even did spanish and about treating each other well!
in the uk it's all yeahhh and whoa and bad grammer and over excitement and a dumbing down. This teaches children absolutely nothing other than football hooliganism style antics.
children learn from television, yes- but do they learn the right things?
2006-10-29 01:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by brainlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, depending on the programmes you look at.
BBC ones are generally good, looking at colours, basic nouns, sounds, etc.
Things in the Sesame Street vain work well that way.
What would be good, would be to look into the Baby Einstein series. Owned by Disney - ask them if they have any research to prove its effectiveness. Should be glad to provide...
2006-10-29 01:17:48 · answer #6 · answered by jinz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Television showa like Noggin which contains dora the explore is great it teaches numbers different language and so forth jak big music show, shows a child how to explore and so forth I think that noggin is great channel for children to watch it is ver developmental
2006-10-29 06:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by Juicy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
even in the most inane shows are (usually) some elements of learning
eg tweenies have a making time
i think that a small amount of tv (with carefully selected programs) is good education-wise
the bbc series 'Muzzy'is a good example: you send off for dvds with a simple storyline... but in another language! the theory is that they help the kids to learn... ii think it works ok actually
2006-10-29 01:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by sarahstar111 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes PBS especially depends which shows you are talking about mostly all shows are educational since all at the end shows the real solution towards what you should do which makes kids think twice and such
2006-10-29 01:22:20 · answer #9 · answered by ..::pimpin azn grl::.. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the above 2 answers are good. but everyone forgets the tellytubbies!!!!!
2006-10-29 01:23:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋