...Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability Com/156 5-6-2012 Introduction According to the Leiden University of Leiden Netherlands, a two part survey was conducted in a three year stint. The survey was to establish to show the effects of television and a child’s reduction of his or her comprehension level. The survey was conducted in two parts, the first part was to show if the amount of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people...
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...Limiting Television Time for Children Is the Smart Choice Limiting Television Time for Children Is the Smart Choice Television what a beautiful spectacle with your rich display of colors and deep sound. Truly one of the most impactful inventions of the 19th century. Television has been affecting millions of people young and old since its inception. Since the beginning television has played with all the emotions one possesses whether it was a funny show, heart wrenching news story or sporting event that brought joyful tears. Some love television and others think it offers nothing but negativity. No matter what feelings one has there is no denying the affect television has had on the human race. Unfortunately most of the time that negativity touches the lives of children who are too small to know how to make a good decision when it comes to viewing television. Parents are also putting their children at risk of future problems and might not even realize it. Research suggests that an excessive amount of TV is harmful to children because it affects behavior, hinders development and makes children more susceptible to health problems. Research suggests an excessive amount of television can affect the child’s behavior because when a child is exposed to violence for such a length of time the child has a chance of developing aggressive behavior that can later lead to violent tendencies in their youth as well as into adulthood. When raising a child a parent wants their child to be...
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...The Effects of Technology on Kids There are many positive effects of the technological boom happening in our society today, such as a device like the cellular phone now has applications including Internet access and video gaming. Another example of great technology is the high definition televisions and video game systems that allow viewers to see details and intricate designs crystal clear. Also the high demand of cellular phone productivity has increased the security and communication of cell phone users everywhere across the globe. Though the effects aforementioned are incredible, a child does not view these technological advances the same way as an adult may. Therefore, the effects of technology on children tend to be more negative mainly because of excessive use. Television has become a necessity in every household and can be found in almost every room of the house. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that seven in ten children in the District of Columbia have a television set in their room, and time spent watching television has increased by an hour and a half within the last five years (Lamontagne, Paloski, and Singh, 2010). Television viewing has increased because programs are designed to immediately grab anyone’s attention. If the program fails to do so, the viewer just simply changes the channel. As for a child, the child can subconsciously relate the same concept of...
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...is to determine The Impact of Using Audio Visual Presentation in Storytelling to Attention Span of Kinder 2 a South Crest School S.Y 2014-2015 1. What is the demographic profile of selected respondent in terms of 1.1 Age 1.2 Gender 1.3 Economic Status 2.How many student does have : 2.1 1-5 minutes of attention 2.2 6-10 minutes of attention 2.3 11-15 minutes of attention 2.4 16-20 minutes of attention 3. What are the skills that develop in watching the audio visual presentation? 3.1. Verbal information 3.2 Intellectual Skills 3.3 Cognitive strategies 3.4 Motor Skills 4.4 Attitude 4. Do the use of Audio visual presentation in the story telling affect the attention span of kinder 2 at South Crest School? CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK INPUT | PROCESS | OUTPUT | 1. What is the demographic profile of selected respondent in terms of 1.1 Age 1.2 Gender 1.3 Economic Status2.How many student does have : 2.1 1-5 minutes of attention 2.2 6-10 minutes of attention 2.3 11-15 minutes of attention 2.4 16-20 minutes of attention3. What are the skills that develop in watching the audio visual presentation? 3.1. Verbal information3.2 Intellectual Skills 3.3 Cognitive strategies 3.4 Motor Skills 4.4 Attitude 4. Do the use of Audio visual Presentation in the Storytelling affect the Attention Span of kinder 2 at South Crest School? | Assessment Tools * Questionnaire * Audio...
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...| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | | Jennifer Ardis | 5/16/2011 | ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is becoming increasingly common these days. Recent surveys indicate that approximately 5.4 million children lying in the age group of 4-17, which constitutes 9.5% of the children in that age group, suffer from this malaise. The percentage of children diagnosed with ADHD, through parents has also steeply increased. It registered a growth of 22% in the time period between 2003 and 2007 alone. These are stumbling figures. Children are the future of our country and must be protected at all costs. Keeping the ever growing reach of this disease, it is imperative we educate ourselves about this ailment. An informed person is able to spot the symptoms, thereby providing the possibility of early diagnosis. Medical literature has defined ADHD as a neurobehavioral development chronic disorder. The most common and noticeable symptoms include difficulty controlling behavior (impulsivity), short attention spans and hyperactivity. But these qualities characterize childhood. Children are playful, full of energy, easily distracted and whimsical. An intensified version of these traits is ADHD. These tendencies are more severe than what usually is for the child’s age. Most of the problems persist for long periods till adulthood. An adult may suffer from this disease and not know. A child suffering from attention is easily...
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...spend more than 4 hours per day watching television are more likely to be overweight. Health experts have long linked excessive TV watching to weight gain. While watching TV, kids are inactive and tend to snack. They're also bombarded with ads that encourage them to eat unhealthy foods. The problem isn't just how long children are watching TV but, what they are watching. According to William H. Deitz, pediatrician and prominent obesity expert at Tufts University School of Medicine, "The easiest way to reduce inactivity is to turn off the TV set. Almost anything else uses more energy than watching TV." Television affects the health of both children and adults. First and foremost, television ads are constantly bombarding us with information about health and nutrition, and unfortunately, most of it’s skewed. Our children are most susceptible to these leading advertisements. For instance, children may have a hard time recognizing fact from fiction when they see an ad that shows thin beautiful people enjoying high calorie, high fat foods and drinks. Roughly two-thirds of the 20,000 TV ads an average child sees each year are for food and most are for unhealthy foods. The majority of children who watch health related commercials believe what the ads say, even if the ads do not give accurate or balanced information. Watching television also affects one’s health by replacing other activities and by slowing the metabolic rate. Television viewing leads to obesity in children and...
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...643419 ASSIGNMENT: A Report on Active Theory of Television Viewing Course: Jnr2223 INSTRUCTOR:Kioko Ireri, Ph.D. SUMMARY PURPOSE Delivered for the fulfillment of a Bachelors Degree in Mass media SCOPE: The Report covers the Active Viewing Theory, its contribution to understanding media effects on audiences documented challenges from research scholars. Presented To: Kioko Ireri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication Patron, Journalism Club, Journalism Department United States International University-Africa. Introduction This theory finds its roots in Bandura’s 1977’s social learning theory which states that some prim aspects of television programming normally get and retain the attention of the viewers. It is therefore from here that Bandura suggested that once a child is exposed to the television programs, perceptive watching followed by an almost automatic attention and interpretation. This is a theory then that rests under media effects category. The many researchers who have put its hypothesis to research over the years have all tried to ascertain whether it is true indeed that viewers get directly involved with the media messages they consume from the media (Television) This theory however hasn’t really been accepted across by all media researchers as some have come out to question the perceived active television watching by the audiences saying that in reality television viewing as relates to the audience is more of...
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...decades the media‟s presence in children is completly omnipresent. The media is used by children as an agent of socialisation on their knowledge. Children‟s news media use social intructions acquaintances function as primary sources of causal effects for each other. Thus the media‟s effects are getting more and more important in the children‟s educational system almost more than the parental upbringings. In these times, it create for the child and adolescent spectators an immediate experience of a virtual reality that become at once central to the fantasy lives of young peoples. Much of the advertising a teenager consumes is designed to make him want things. Nearly all forms of media are filled with some obvious, envious and hidden messages encouraging people to procure them. Key Words: Media‟s effect, C hildren‟s education, Fant asy lives, Technology, Social instruction. INTRODUCTION: Media‟s presence in children‟s lives is totally ubiquitous. As screens become ever-present in human lives, especially ones that are small and portable, children and teenagers are spending more time playing digital games and browsing on internet. Modern technology has transfomed the way children learn and interact with their environment. Television, which is the most dominant media affects children consumption habits, is now joined by computers, video game players, cell phones and other connected devices. The result is that children today are completely immersed in media experiences from...
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...it has gotten to the point where no one questions its educational values. Currently as of June 19th, not a single article was found exposing about the negative aspects of Pororo. Mothers turn on Pororo for their kids, in the hope that it will have educational benefits. However, contrary to many mothers’ belief, Pororo can have some negative effects on children’s education in terms of intellectual, physical/social, and emotional development. First of all, Pororo can have a negative effect on a child’s intellectual development. Watching TV affects children’s brain activity to become passive towards learning. Studies show that watching TV reduces alpha waves, which is associated with relaxed meditative states. This creates “mind fog” state which means people feel it’s harder to concentrate and stay focused, like daydreaming (Carmichael). Thus if children watch the Pororo animation for a long time, their mind will be at a mental fog state which will make them harder to focus. This will lead to shortened attention span and even to attention disorder. There are already 1 numerous studies proving the link between TV addiction and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. According to research, one hour increase in TV watching increases the probability of developing ADHD by 10% (qtd. in Song). ADHD...
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...PSY01 A01 M3A2 - Protecting Children From Media Joslynn Ford 9/20/2015 ideo Introduction In recent years there has been a significant increase in video gaming among young adults. They are a unique form of entertainment that allows it's users to become interactive. According to an 2014 article entitles The Impact of Video Games, 97% of teens play video games, making the video game industry a dominant force in the lives of many adolescents (2014, Norcia). A 2010 survey hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children ages 8-18 devoted 7.5 hours daily to video gaming. Of the children surveyed, less than half stated that their parents had rules about what games they could play. By parents, video games are frowned upon as time wasters. Many experts blame video games for why some children become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. On the other hand, there are experts who believe that there are a large amount of benefits from children playing video games. Prevalence Although there has been a large study on violence in video gaming, there has been very little addressing the stereotypical content and its impact on its players. A stereotype is defined as a assumptions that help convey ideas or image of a particular person or thing. In gender roles, compared to female characters, males appear more frequently and engage in achieve leadership roles quicker. In games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty, there is always a male character...
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...quality. At the rate that technology is spreading, teachers and professors will soon be replaced with computers and online learning tools. While there may be advantages to such an approach, the disadvantages far outweigh them. I am going to discuss the potential negatives of implementing such large amounts of technology in the educational classrooms of today. An obvious place to start would be on technology itself. Has technology actually positively affected people today, or has the overwhelming amount of information available at a fingertip caused us to rely on it so heavily that we have lost our desire to learn? One problem with technology is that intrigues our minds so well that we don’t want to do anything else. For instance, if a child is playing the newest video game and his mother asks him to stop for a second and take the trash out, he will instantly become furious (Martin). It is not reasonable that such an easy and simple task would create such a feeling of exasperation, so we can only point a finger at the new factor, which is technology. Patience seems to be a lost virtue among young people today, mainly because they are used to receiving what they want instantly. Whenever you click on a web page and it takes more than a couple seconds to load, people become livid that it isn’t showing up instantly. No matter how incredible it is that this computer is sending a signal to a satellite in space, and then sending the signal back to your computer...
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...Anthony J Capozzoli Jessica A. T. Gilpatrick Research Paper Final Draft October 12, 2014 How does video games affect youth negatively? One of the main concerns that have constantly been raised against video games is that most of the games feature aggressive elements. This has led many people to assert that this may have a detrimental effect on individuals who play such games. Despite continuing controversy for over 15 years, there has been little in the way of systematic research. The one consistent finding is that the majority of the studies on very young children - as opposed to those in their teens upwards - tend to show that children do become more aggressive after either playing or watching a violent video game. Research suggests that children and teens that playing and watching video games over an extended period of time tend to be more aggressive, are more prone to struggle in school, and more prone to be obese or overweight. One of the ways that the videogames affect children and teens that play and watch for an extended period of time is that they tend to be more aggressive. In “Children, Adolescents, and Television,” it has been stated that even more important than the amount of time spent playing video games is the content of games played (2001). Research shows that up to 90% of all video games contain some sort of violent content and in a survey of 213 adolescents, 99% of boys and 84% of girls said that at least one of their current video games has violent...
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...The Effects of Technology on Society Brian William Anderson Stevens-Henagar College The age of the computer has come and some people say that is the greatest thing that has ever happened to us. But some people say that because of dependency of technology we have been trapped in a hole and we have no way to get out. Technology helps us live our lives; technology has made it easy to do a lot of things like that we just couldn’t do or was extremely difficult communication The time that it takes a letter to travel from New York to California is two to three days to get to its destination. With the use of the Internet and E-mail the same information can be sent and it will be there in a matter of seconds. There have been so many advances in the telecommunication field just over the last few years. The impact of verbal communication is that it is faster, cheaper it takes less effort and now has a wider range. The impact of non-verbal is the same as verbal plus it is easier to manipulate (Sturm, 2009). Technology has also made it possible to connect to multiple people at the same time. It is possible to hold a conference with the members of a meeting being in different countries around the world via video conferencing which is known as VTC. This also saves the company money and greatly reduces carbon dioxide emissions (IVCi, 2011) ENTERTAINMENT Today there is at least one computer in every house in the United States; they allow us to do many things that before the late 1980’s...
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...Child Obesity: Avoidance and Control Melody Locklear ENG122: English Composition II (ACE1203B) Sarah MacDonald February 20, 2012 Introduction Obesity in children has become a more pressing issue throughout the years with obesity nearly tripling itself since 1970. An appropriate definition of the term would be excess body fat negatively impacting the well-being of a child. There are overall three factors that play a role in the outcome of child obesity. One is parents allowing their children to spend their time inside playing video games and watching television for hours on end. The second is parents not introducing their children to good eating habits, and the last factor is genetics. Parents seem to be at a loss when going about trying to fix the problem. Most parents resort to a much more modern approach: medication. People nowadays believe that medication, that diet pills will just automatically solve all their problems without putting one ounce of effort into it. However, the answer is simple. If parents will only incorporate good eating habits and regular exercise into their child’s diet and daily schedule, throwing all different kinds of medications into their system won’t be necessary and obesity won’t continue to increase in the world. Methods I used both the internet and a couple different books on the Ashford Online Library to conduct my research. Also, I found a lot of helpful...
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...Organization, 2003), influencing children's food preferences, at both the brand and category level, purchasing behavior, purchasing requests and food consumption habits (McNeal, 1987 Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth, 2005; Hastings et al., 2006). Television is typically both the main electronic medium with which children engage (Linn, 2004) and the primary source of advertising used by the food industry (Hastings et al., 2003). Previous reviews on food marketing to children have focused primarily on television, as there is a lack of published studies on other marketing avenues. In a systematic review prepared for the UK Food Standards Agency (Hastings et al., 2003), it was acknowledged that the majority of the available research was based on television as an advertising medium, with only 5 out of 50 reviewed studies focusing solely on other marketing techniques. The collective effect of other food marketing techniques, together with television advertising, is likely to augment television advertising's effect on children's food choices and dietary intake (Hastings et al., 2003). Print media, including magazines, is one such marketing technique that has received little attention in the research...
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