jo kirby

Hi All,

Can anyone point me in the direction of research/articles which suggest that TV and gaming is positive, as opposed to the usual belief that it is negative, for young (around six and under) children please?

Thank you in advance,
Jo

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Sandra Dodd

-=-Can anyone point me in the direction of research/articles which suggest that TV and gaming is positive, as opposed to the usual belief that it is negative, for young (around six and under) children please?-=-

I'm going to link you to some things Joyce and I have collected.
You could look at research, but we're ahead of the curve on this.

Same with reading and choices and lots of things "mainstream" authors have written in the past couple of years as though they discovered or created the benefits, we've been doing this for many years.

Dr. Sopolsky of Stanford gave permission to be quoted here, but my writing pre-dates his on that particular topic. :-)

http://sandradodd.com/t/gilligan

Pam Sorooshian, a teacher of economics, who has worked as an economist, on economy:
http://SandraDodd.com/t/economics

Dan Vilter, teaches theatre tech and manages a theatre at a college in California:
http://vilter.us/Television/index.html

In Defense of Cartoons
http://sandradodd.com/t/cartoons

What if little kids watch TV all day?
What can happen?
http://sandradodd.com/t/whatif

HOW Unschooled Kids Watch TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly

http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/
ten links, lower left

Sandra

jo kirby

Thank you for those replies - I have now read them all. The one about economics really made sense to me - I would recommend that one in particular to anyone with niggles about tv watching.

All the best,
Jo


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-=-Can anyone point me in the direction of research/articles which suggest that TV and gaming is positive, as opposed to the usual belief that it is negative, for young (around six and under) children please?-=-

I'm going to link you to some things Joyce and I have collected.
You could look at research, but we're ahead of the curve on this.

Same with reading and choices and lots of things "mainstream" authors have written in the past couple of years as though they discovered or created the benefits, we've been doing this for many years.

Dr. Sopolsky of Stanford gave permission to be quoted here, but my writing pre-dates his on that particular topic. :-)

http://sandradodd.com/t/gilligan

Pam Sorooshian, a teacher of economics, who has worked as an economist, on economy:
http://SandraDodd.com/t/economics

Dan Vilter, teaches theatre tech and manages a theatre at a college in California:
http://vilter.us/Television/index.html

In Defense of Cartoons
http://sandradodd.com/t/cartoons

What if little kids watch TV all day?
What can happen?
http://sandradodd.com/t/whatif

HOW Unschooled Kids Watch TV
http://sandradodd.com/t/holly

http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/
ten links, lower left

Sandra




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Julie van der Wekken

Here's a wonderful Ted Talk I came across recently that talks about the benefits of video games in children's lives:

http://www.ted.com/talks/gabe_zichermann_how_games_make_kids_smarter.html

Also, here's an article in Wired magazine from a few years ago titled 'High Score Education; Games, not school are teaching kids to think'

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/view.html

another Ted Talk for video gaming

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

Julie v.

--- In [email protected], jo kirby <jokirby2004@...> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of research/articles which suggest that TV and gaming is positive, as opposed to the usual belief that it is negative, for young (around six and under) children please?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jo
>
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