Explain how you personally see media socializing in young children- give two examples relevant to current media influences such as Instagram or tik tok or other media not addressed in the video.
How is media tied to consumerism?
The video discusses changes in our nations macrosystems that affect children’s media consumption. Discuss what this change is and the outcome
Question 2:
Review the research on Spongebob Research.
What do you take away from this research? Link to the learning unit.
Discuss a criticisms or questions about the research?
How do you think teachers and parents can use this information be very specific?
The NAEYC Center for Applied Research (Links to an external site.) examines a recent study’s implications for children’s media content and executive function.
The Study (Links to an external site.)
Recently, many national and regional news outlets carried dramatic headlines implicating “SpongeBob SquarePants” as the cause of children’s poor This image is currently unavailableattention. (This piece, picked up by several news websites, is a representative example.) Most of the coverage obscured the procedure, results, and implications of the findings from a brief report published in the journal Pediatrics that looked at the relationship between television viewing and attentional control among groups of preschoolers. Is it really SpongeBob’s fault?
What did this study examine?
Two researchers at the University of Virginia studied the performance of sixty 4-year-olds on a series of common early childhood assessments that measure executive function (Links to an external site.). This set of skills includes the ability to control one’s attention, stay focused on specific instructions, and wait for a reward (“delayed gratification”). Each child was randomly assigned to have one of three experiences before being assessed: watch a nine-minute segment of a “fast-paced television show” (easily identifiable as Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants”); watch a nine-minute segment of an “educational television show” (identified as the PBS show “Caillou”); or draw with crayons and markers for nine minutes.
The children were predominantly white, from middle-income to upper-middle-income families, and the three groups did not differ in average age, average parental rating of attention problems, and average time spent each week watching television (as reported by parents).
What did the study find?
Following the nine minutes of randomly prescribed activity, children who had watched the “fast-paced” show performed much more poorly on the executive function tasks than did children in the other two groups (though the performances of the other two groups did not differ from each other). The authors concluded that the immediate effects of viewing very fast-paced programming could potentially affect how children learn, a conclusion consistent with other research showing a long-term effect of television viewing during early childhood and later attention problems (Links to an external site.) and academic outcomes (Links to an external site.).
Cite text and outside research to support your ideas.
. In keeping with the rubric be sure to use at least three different sources for each question Q1 and Q2.
Each sub question should be supported.