Womens and Parenting

Recent research found that a child can learn off the screen as much as reading a book. Does the condition? Parents to dialogue with the child constantly on the content, from educational videos to news.

What is wrong with exposing children to watch TV at random, we know. And that educational videos are good, too. But, contrary to what might be expected, not everything about children sit in front of the screen it says. Because the front of the television experience for children may be less instructive than reading a book.

The key, according to a U.S. group of psychologists, is to make mediation parents about the content. An experiment at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), specialized in Education and Human Development, found that educational videos (but not any program) can have the same impact of books on learning.

What reverse the negative perception of the children sit and watch TV, even if pre-, according to the doctors in charge of the experiment is to make the front of the screen while an instance of dialogue. The adult encourages the child to deal with situations that arise, to retain the new words you hear on the history and develop a level of knowledge appropriate for their age.
Mediation is what matters

The experiment-the first of its kind, incredibly, was to divide 80 children from three years in four different ways of seeing the same video: alone, with an adult hand (but without comment) with a built-in actress the video experience to guide children and the fourth, with an adult who constantly will pause the video and ask them questions.

Then, to make tests of comprehension and vocabulary presented in the video, children matuvieron constant interaction with the adults had the highest scores and recorded the highest increase compared to previous test. Those who saw the story contained an interlocutor, just average results achieved.

Experts advised parents to specific questions and engage in the experience, instead of leaving children in front of the screen and go do something else, which is what usually happens in homes. And this, according to child psychologist Fernanda Orrego, Integra Life, “will help the cognitive process, showing how important the video and the adult emphasizing what seems important that children learn.” The pause the video and intervene constantly help the child to develop their ability to select the priority of the irrelevant, to link events and comprehend logical sequences.