Bally
EAP1-B
04/12/2011
Reading Reaction Journal #3

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Reference:
Krcmar, Marina Assessing the research on media, cognitive development and infants: Can infants really learn from Baby Einstein? Wake Forest University

Summary:
This article talks about if babies really have positive influence from the television products. At the beginning author tells to us that the recent generations spend more time on the screen than before; babies under 6 months cannot focus on television very well, the more babies grow up, the more ability to concentrate. When babies older than 24 months, they can really attracted by television, but many studies suggest that they prefer live activities to those on the screen. Babies usually like to capture the actions from screen, not in the real life. But the issue is the consequence like this not means babies improve the intelligence from the television, they only leaned basic skills from it. It might be lets babies learn faster, but fewer impacts on babies’ future.

Reaction:
Today, more and more advanced in science and technology coming out to the public, people are engaged different things rather than before. In my parents’ generation, they were playing in the field, clamping trees, and catching bugs. To the age of ours, we had video games, television, and electronic toys. Our childhood is definitely more intelligent than my parents’. But in my parents’ opinion, we were lost a lot of fun. I think it is true. We have Internet, video games, and fast food, and that is why nowadays we have a lot of obese children that they are not supposed to be over fat at their ages. The babies are born around 2000 have Baby Einstein, and people thought it could increase babies’ intelligence. But I am really worried about their eyes, because the infants’ eyes are not growing up very much, to expose to the screen is really harmful to babies’ eyes.