tailieunhanh - Learning from Television: A Research Review

In this paper, we identify the effect of preschool exposure to television on adolescent cognitive skills by exploiting variation in the timing of television’s introduction to . cities. 2 Most cities first received television between the early 1940s and the mid- 1950s. The exact timing was affected by a number of exogenous events, most notably a four-year freeze on licensing prompted by problems with the allocation of broadcast spectrum across cities. Once it was introduced, television was adopted rapidly by fami- lies with children. Survey evidence suggests that young children who had television in their homes during this period watched as much as three and a half hours per day, and. | C hildren Technology Learning from Television A Research Review CCT REPORTS Issue No. 11 October 1996 Babette Moeller CCT Reports No. 11 October 1996 Table of Contents Material Learning from Television The Attitudes Beliefs Cognitive Literacy Learning from Learning form Television Mediating Viewing Design of the Television Instructional Summary and Recommendations for CCT Reports No. 3 April 1996 Introduction Traditionally educators have perceived television as not particularly beneficial to literacy development. Concerns were fueled by findings suggesting that with the introduction of television people spend less time reading books and reading scores decline . Corteen 1986 Robinson 1972 Werner 1971 . However as our society is striving to make adjustments to the decline in literacy skills and new ways of learning and teaching are being explored educators are becoming interested in exploring the educational potential of television and video for teaching basic literacy skills such as reading writing and math. The interest in television as an educational medium has increased for several reasons. First existing educational television programs that were developed to enhance the literacy development of both children . The Electric Company Sesame Street Ghostwriter and adults . television-supported distance learning programs from the Open University in Great Britain second language programs produced by TV Ontario have been quite successful in achieving their intended outcomes . Bates 1983 Bryant Alexander Brown 1983 Soudack 1990 . Second because television is a very accessible medium it has the potential to reach learners that have not been able to participate in traditional adult literacy programs. Television is accessible both in terms of its technology and in terms of its content. By .