Do Young Kids and Media Mix?

This article has many people talking about incorperateing media and technology into the lives of young children. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the Fred Rogers Center have come together to pass a statement that will allow schools to give young students access to technology, and interactive media. NAEYC position statement is not only based on developing content suitable for the kids, but also to provide learning resources for adults, caregivers, and parents. Even big companies like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) have been working out this issue for years. CPB and PBS have teamed up together to promote online games, mobile apps and interactive whiteboard games, which will help children build early math, and literacy skills. These skills are very important and need to be improved upon. In America about two thirds of children are not reading at grade level, and more then 60% of all fourth graders are not capable in math either. NAEYC and Fred Rogers Center made a core policy statement that apply s to the entire field of early childhood education. By doing this NAEYC is now that much closer to closing the achievement gap for education.

Is incorporating social meeting at a young age a good thing? or a bad thing? It depends on how they use it. If kids are taught at a young age to use the basic media to help them learn. It can open up the kid's world to learn new things with the media and modern technologies. It could be a bad thing if the kids get hooked to using the media that it may take away from other aspects that they should be learning at that age. Aspects such as being social with other class mates, speech, and active movement. Overall I think young kids using media is a great idea cause it is so unique and different that it will catch the kids and allow them to focus better on the task they have.

Lippincot, R and Sanchez, D. ( 2012, April 13). Integrating Educational Media In Early Learning Environments To Bridge The Achievement Gap . HUFF POST EDUCATION, CULTURE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-m-lippincott/educational-media_b_1423747.html

Social TV and Multitasking

People all over America now have a different way of viewing Television. Through a process called “Social TV”. With 40% of Americans now owning a smart phone, or a tablet. Many people are running their lives with these technologies to multitask. They choose to multitask, because they are so busy during the day, and the busier we are the less time we have on our hands, therefore its natural for us to multitask more. Along with multitasking another hobby americans picked up is reviewing television, while watching a game or a TV show millions of americans will flok to twitter, and Facebok and post what they think about what they watched. During the 2012 Patriots and Giants Super Bowl, which had 111 million viewers, 12 million comments were posted on social-media sites during the game, about 252 tweets per minute were sent during the royal wedding last April in 2011, And about 8,800 tweets spread like wild fire when singer Beyonce announced she was pregnant during the MTV Video Music Awards in August. Many TV officials are interested in this information. By seeing how much, and what people post about they can determine which shows have the best ratings. They also can receive feedback from fans to see what they need to do to improve on the show.

I've started to notice multitasking being used a lot in not only social media, but also in me as well. While writing this essay I have I Tunes, Google, and Face book open, because I can then have access to different resources of information. That way I can multitask and get done a lot of work. Social TV overall is changing a lot. With the new 4G phones and tablets coming out technology is much more faster, portable, and eficent together it allows us to get things done quicker, and might free up some time on our hands.

Diaz, J. (2012, April 9). Social Media enhancing Viewing Experience. The COLUMBUS DISPATCH, Life and Entertainment

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/04/09/social-media-enhancing-viewing-experience.html

Instagram Photos

Popular social-media  site Facebook launched a new app out there called “Instagram”. Instagram is a quick photo sharing application that allows people to take photos, apply a digital filter, and then share that photo on multiple social networking sights. With the greater majority of people using Instagram being teens, over 30 million people world wide are hooked on this app. But why all the excitement you might say? Instagram enables people to share photos with friends, and family. But there are some people who aren’t to fond of this program. The group “Yoursphere For Parents” are people that provide safety information, and tips for when using sights like instagram. What they are worried about is that when you post something it can be viewed by anyone, requires a birth date/location for posting a photo, may link to more cases of cyber bullying, and may have disturbing images on instagram such as profanity, and nudity. I think this is a very neat, and interesting way to be connected all together with social media. With twitter, a blog, or face book things that you post online can be viewed by many people which could be a good thing or a bad thing. I think posting photos and information on all these sites is a great thing to do it can inform people In the world about events and other major things happening, or it can be a sipmle as brightening our day.

D'Arcy, J. (2012, April 10). Instagram What Parents Need To Know . LIFE STYLE, IN The NEWS AND ON PARENTING

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/instagram-what-parents-need-to-know/2012/04/10/gIQAHgzR8S_blog.html

Disney Tackles Bullying With Media

Common Sense Media, and Disney are teaming up to enialate the issue of cyber bullying. Together both are working on a public service announcement for kids chanel "Disney XD". Their hope is too adress the issue of bullying to kids ages 6 to 14. Disney stated that 1/3 children have been a target from online harassment. They have been receiving threatening messages, having people post embarrassing messages/photos of them. Disney also states that its not just the internet dishing up harassment. One in four teens are also being bullied over the phone with violent calls and text messages. As a kid Disney XD teen star Billy Unger, "Chase" on the Disney XD series "Lab Rats," talks about his childhood experience of being bullied. During the 4^th grade Unger fell victim to bullying, for two years. The teen star was called “small-fry”, and other insults for just being shorter then everyone else. Unger said "It was pretty heartbreaking". The teen actor is now informing today's youth about the issue. He says that if you ever get picked on or teased don't fight or cause trouble just seek out a adult to help you.

Disney has a plan to tackle this epidemic of bullying. In 2012 Director Sundance- and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, came out with the movie “Bully”. Bully is a heart touching documentary that follows 5 kids and their families in the Sioux City Community School District. The film talks about how bullying may effect kids and their families, and what the community is doing to handle this issue. This documentary even includes the stories of two families who’ve lost children to suicide, and a mother who awaits the faith of her daughter who brought a gun on the bus. With cameras in school cafeterias, classroom, principles office, and school buses. This movie will take you to the front line of were bullying takes place. With all the powerful stories and movement to end bullying, “Bully” aims to be a catalyst for that change. a change that has touched the hearts, and minds of every community in our nation.

Death Threats Online From Students

According to a new survey multiple teachers have received death threats from students over the internet. With the majority of the students being at high school age (60%) to even adults threatening teachers (16%). The most popular place these threats are coming from face book (77%) and the rest of them being observed on a web site called RateMyTeacher.com (21%). Teachers all over the community are shocked about these coments. Students are posting about their teacher being a rapist/slut, talking about slitting the teachers throats/hurting them, and talking about inappropriate body parts on the teachers. Even after all of the threats and crude comments only 2/3 of teachers have reported this issue, and many have felt that the issue wasn’t handled properly. The main way they have been handling it is by sending notifications to the family about this unethical behavior. I have seen similar things like this happen. All over face book students are commenting about people they hate, or dislike. Going through high school I’ve noticed alot of the coments would be about drama, and hatred towards teachers. Everything from perverted sexual jokes, teachers yelling at students, or teachers giving out to much homework. With all these sights out there comes a lot of drama, and rumors which can be spread quickly through the web and media, and because of that it can lead to more serious issues such as cyber bullying and suicide.

Garner, R.(2012, April 7). Teachers Face Death Threats In Online Abuse. The INDEPENDANT , NEWS

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/teachers-face-death-threats-from-children-in-online-abuse-7624903.html

Facebook Locks Up Criminals

What started out as a popular social media website to stay in contact with friends, and groups. Is now being used as a secret weapon by small local business to catch criminals. That right Facebook is being used  to lock up criminals and put them behind bars. This all started when the small business “The Blossom Shop” got robbed. The store owner went around and put up flyers to neighboring businesses hoping that someone would respond to the crime. Then one day a store employee suggested posting the picture of the criminal on face book. By posting the picture of the criminal on face book it allowed people to come forth and give any extra information towards the crime. "We put his picture on face book and within 15 minutes, we got a response with his address and stuff about the criminal's history, like how he's been in jail before," stated John Loricco, the owner of Blossom Shop. Local police are thrilled with this idea . By posting these pics on face book it easier and less complicated for police to find the criminal. I believe that people are starting to become more creative with the different ways they use social media. what started out as a site to contact and stay in touch with people, is now being used for more personal and better things to help out our community. More people are beginning to think outside of the box on new ways that social media can better our lives, and our worlds.

Li, D. (2012, March 27). Local Business Uses Face book To Catch Robbers. YALE DAILY NEWS, NEWS

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/mar/27/local-businesses-use-facebook-to-catch-robbers/

Respond To Franzi's Blog "Cyber Bullying"

Franzi's Blog

CYBER BULLYING

I think the subject of cyber bullying that you touched on is very good, and should be talked about more in our society today. “But what is the difference between cyber bullying today, and bullying in the past” I do agree with you that cyber bullying has changed a lot, not only from what year it was done, but also as at what age it was done. When I was a kid I was bullied, and picked on during recess, and class while in elementary school. As I got older it was still there during school, but it eventually made it's way to the face book. It's pretty harmful to hear people say such horible thing to a person like I hate you or your ugly just because your different. I know I would like something on Facebook that other people would call me stupid or a fag, and they would write hurtful message just for liking a certain page. Even though I was bullied online suicde was never really a thought that came across my mind. Sure the things people said made me sad but I just pick my head up, and stay true to who I am not letting people get the best of me.

Face Book Time Line. Love It?? or Hate it??

After being launched in late February 2004 Facebook, the popular social media site, has now expanded to 800 million plus users worldwide. Face book has truly revolutionized our world. It's allowed us to stay in touch with friends, send messages to people, join support groups, post picture of events, and much more. One of the biggest problems though with face book is the privacy issue of peoples information. This Problem riled up a whole bunch of people. In December of 2011 Facebook came out with there new lay out called “Timeline”. This new layout gives facebook more of a scrap book aperance to it, and exposes more of the users profile then the old design. The biggest problem with the new design is the lack of privacy. If you look at the timeline layout you can see it list out your friends, likes, photos, maps, and intrest. Photos and images have also chnaged in the new layout. the timline profile allows users to post a giant cover photo and also comes with a rather large profile picture. I thought about it and I ended up getting the new layout, becuase you can still customize your privacy seetings on it. And if you dont want it you dont have to change it you can still stay with the old regualr layout. When timeline was first brought upon facebook I think people were very picky about it and did not like the new changes it made, but social media and technologies are in a constant change that will never end.
http://wtvr.com/2012/04/06/facebook-timeline-draws-love-hate-and-creativity/

Violent Kids? Violent Games? Or Both?!?!

All over the nation teachers are growing more worried about children who play computer/video games. During recces and free time instead of doing fun activities such as tag, football, and hide and go seek. Many students are running around reenacting scenes from violent video games. Some teachers report that kids may take this to seriously to the point were someone will get hurt, or to the point where they would be out of reality. Playing these games also effects the students performance inside the class room. Due to staying up latethe night before. Students show up to class drained physically, mentally, and socially. Other side affects that may come of this our obesity, poor social skills, and lack of physical fitness, when it all comes down to it though who is really to blame?? teachers mainly point the finger at parents saying they ignore the content and time of playing when it comes to their children, and video games.

Most video games, and media that kids watch are a little more unethecial and disturbing. suprisingly some parents don't do anything about it.  All over America there have been cases were youth have went to extreme and disturbing mesures and acted out  sences from their favorite video game. A great example of this was the columbine masacare were it was belived that the two people that killed everyone got their inspiration and ideas from Aldof Hitler, and violent video games. I think if parents actual sat down, and watched what there kids were playing then they would truly understand just how bad some of these games are for our youth.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/03/children-addicted-violent-games-warn-teachers?newsfeed=true

Living The Simple Life

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” by Henry David Thoreau (pp. 403-409 50 Essay)

In The Passage “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” Author Henry David Thoreau, tells the tale of his journey living the simple life deep in the woods of Walden Pond. His reason for doing this was to get away from what was not life, and truly live what was life. “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity is the main way Thoreau wants to live his life. He wanted to minimize his affairs down to a few, and suck all the marrow from life. Thoreau also doesn’t like main stream news, sending letters, and news papers. He says that they are useless information and contain so much drama, and that if you here it once whats the point in hearing it again. Thoreau simply wanted to be independent and not have to live his day to day within a pattern of everyone else.

In our world today there are there are so many people who rely on social media and other technologies to live a day to day life, but there are a hand full of people that want to just drop this, and live a simple life just like Thoreau. For some this seems like paradise well for others its insanity. I think the technologies in social media are very addicting and may have a permanent grasp on many Americans today. 

For me I'm starting to fall into this pattern were I am becoming more and more obsessed with products of social media especially Facebook. I would start doing my homework, and before you know it, I would be on and searching something on Facebook. For me Facebook is a great tool to have it allows me to stay in the loop of events and things that are going on. but every now and then I try to set down media and my electronics and step back and try to apriciate the beautey in thw world just like Thoreau did.

Family Or Television ?

"Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn (pp. 438-447 50 Essay)

In the essay “Television: The Plug-In Drug” Author Marie Winn describes, to us the affects that television may have on the culture and life of a modern family. Winn states that before television was invented families were a lot closer together, partaking in traditions, family meetings, and family dinners, but soon that was all about to change. Winn predicted by the year of 2000 that ¾ of American families would have two or more televisions in the house, and  with that families have dwindled in those great family aspects. Examples of how this happened were families solving there problems with TV, parents cook dinner while their kids watch TV, and not interacting with each and being a close family. Winn states that television isn’t the only reason for family tragedies, the divorce rate, down sloping communities, and busy working parents have also played key factors in the family down fall.

I believe that Winn has a very good point on how television can affect family, but I believe it all depends on how the family uses it. I think television is a great tool to have in everyday life. It keeps us up to date with major news in the world, tells us about problems and solutions for our problems, and always thorows us a good laugh here and there. Each day television is evolving to be more efficient, portable, and versatile. What started out as just a square box on your table top can now be taken any wear on a tablet or smart phone that can fit in your pocket.

As a child I grew up with a lot of TV in my life. Whether it would be cartoons, the news, or animal planet. By watching Television on a day to day basis I am able to hear, listen, and pick up important information about our world and what is going on. I think everyone should partake in watching TV, because it keeps us all on the same page and allows us to expand are thought on issues of the world.

VIDEO GAMES VS. READING

"Games" by Steven Johnson (pp. 196-202 in 50 Essay)

In the Short Essay "Games", written by Steven Johnson, Johnson talks about the comparison between video games and reading. While most people would think reading is more important then video games. Johnson on the other hand defends that video games may be more suited for youth then reading. Johnson states that reading may isolate children, doesn’t get them active, and doesn’t allow them to be social. Where as playing video games will allow children to be up and moving, (WII and Kenict) strategizeing/puzzle solving, and being social with friends. Even though he is for video games Johnson still wants kids to read. Johnson States that being literate in reading is a key factor when landing a important high paying career.

Overall I think both reading and video games have taken major advances towards social media. Video games can now be played with motion sencory, on small hand helds, and played with people online. Reading too has made it's advances. Most Paper back books have been replaced by electronic copies on I-phones and kindlles. There are also discussion groups online for both reading and video games that allow people to connect and share there thought and feeling either about the game or the book.

Growing up I participated in both reading and playing video games. even though the two of them are two tottally different activities, i was able to apriciate both of them during my life. Reading to me is very relaxing and allows me to have time to myself to learn at my own pace. I currently have a book list of all these books that I want to read and each time I get done a book I am excited to start a new one so I can learn more. The thing I like about video games is the problem solving, adventures, and just running around having a good time. Even though I don't own a system any more me and my friends still like to get together and have a little friendly competition with each other.

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