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Featuring Deb Linebarger, Lisa Guernsey, and Marnie Lewis in a discussion about educational media. These three experts discuss what the growing exposure to media means for children's literacy development.
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Program description
With televisions, computers, video games, and cell phones, modern culture makes it difficult to escape time in front of a screen, especially for our newest generation of kids. Today, children six and under watch over 28 hours of television a week, nearly half of them have used a computer, and more than one in four has played a video game.
What does this growing exposure mean for our children's literacy development? Is it more harmful than helpful? Can parents and teachers use media effectively in their homes and schools? If so, how? In this webcast, three experts will tackle the questions raised by the new and growing field of educational media and discuss the research being done, the practical solutions available, and the many answers we're still hoping to find.
Presenters
Deb Linebarger, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the director and principal investigator of the Children's Media Lab. Her research focuses on the relationships among children's developmental status, their use of media, and their larger social worlds. Her work has been presented at numerous conferences and published in psychology, communication, education, and pediatric medicine books and journals.
Lisa Guernsey, is the author of Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age 5. She is also the Director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank and incubator for explanatory and investigative journalism on pressing policy issues, and a regular contributor to the Early Ed Watch blog. Lisa has been writing about education for nearly 15 years, as a staff writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York Times, and has contributed articles to The Washington Post, Newsweek and other publications.
Marnie Lewis is the Instructional Technology Coordinator at Tuckahoe Elementary in Arlington, Virginia where she evaluates educational sites and software to enhance instruction and works directly with staff to integrate technology in to lessons. She received a B.S. in elementary education from Northeastern University, completed graduate work in instructional technology through George Mason University, and has taught in classrooms for over 10 years. She is also a PBS Teacher, a Smart Exemplary Educator, and a Discovery Star Educator.
The Reading Rockets Professional Development Webcast Series is a production of WETA. The Reading Rockets project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
This program was produced by WETA/Reading Rockets, which is solely responsible for its content. The views expressed in the program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of WETA/Reading Rockets, our funders, or our partners.
