Week 1 Discussion: Corinne

I was particularly interested in the Children, Adolescents, and the Media article because I’m an editor for my friend’s media literacy web series, “The Media Show” and we actually recently did a video about kids under 2 and screen time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNw6zA_Yjs Of course, watching this video is an experience best shared with others, as Richert,… Read more Week 1 Discussion: Corinne

Week 1 Discussion

The policy statement “Children, Adolescents, and Media” proposed by the Council on Communications and Media states that “young people now spend more time with media than they do in school,” and focuses on recommendations for pediatricians, parents, and schools to curb media’s negative side effects. This caused me to wonder about the distribution of young… Read more Week 1 Discussion

Week 2 Discussion

Alper mentions the unproductive generalization of today’s children as “iKids” or “digital natives”.  She claims these assumptions ignore a few core problems in the way today’s children must navigate new media literacy. First, the “transparency problem” or “the challenges young people face in learning to see clearly the ways that media shape perceptions of the world.” Second, the “ethics… Read more Week 2 Discussion

Week 1 Discussion

“Documentation highlights the importance of multiple perspectives in decision-making.” “Thus by using a variety of media to represent a single phenomenon, we are helping children ask better questions.” Alper made a great point here: technology can enable children to make sense of their experiences from different perspectives, either through documentation, different mediums, or social interactions. However,… Read more Week 1 Discussion

Week 1 Discussion-Nicole

“When a character more closely resembles a viewer, emotional investment with a program increases, and the likelihood that viewers will learn educational content also increases” -Media as Social Partners: The Social Nature of Young Children’s Learning From Screen Media I found this to be incredibly interesting, particularly regarding children of color and the limited amount… Read more Week 1 Discussion-Nicole

Week 1 Discussion - Juan G

After completing the readings for this week, I have the following questions: What are some of the best, efficient, and fast methods to evaluate the impact of specific media technology tools on children given that the pace of technology innovation is very fast? Is the one we used last week during class good enough? Why is screen media… Read more Week 1 Discussion - Juan G

Week 1 Comments

The Richert reading and the AAP reading both note that children under 2-2.5 years have difficulty learning from screen media. The AAP even specifically recommends that children under 2 not spend time with screen media. I know that Baby Einstein ran into trouble because of its claims that it helped young children, but there are other shows targeted… Read more Week 1 Comments

Week 1 Discussion

The Richert 2011 paper suggests that parents and educators should provide context to young children about fantastical characters in media. To what extent should “quality time” between a parent and child be allocated towards explaining the context of media to children so they create a more accurate understanding of the world? And to what extent does… Read more Week 1 Discussion

Week 1 Discussion

It was very interesting to me that children who are exposed to a lot of screen time have trouble with 3D representations of problems and have trouble transferring what they learned from a 2D screen. My question is what is the impact of Virtual Reality on this? Would it be a better (more immersive) learning… Read more Week 1 Discussion

Week 1 Discussion - Lisa J

One line from the Rogoff reading (Children’s Development of Cultural Repertoires…) particularly stuck out to me: “Tacit, routine expectations of everyday life are likely to be among the most powerful cultural experiences – especially because they are expected and unexamined by most participants” (Rogoff, p. 491). This made me ponder what the implicit social cues… Read more Week 1 Discussion - Lisa J