December 26, 2007
But they're educational!
This New Yorker piece about our coming post-literate society contains a little nugget about one of my hobby horses.
The antagonism between words and moving images seems to start early. In August, scientists at the University of Washington revealed that babies aged between eight and sixteen months know on average six to eight fewer words for every hour of baby DVDs and videos they watch daily.
Now I suppose it could be true that these videos help other types of inteligence to develop, but do the producers make that claim? And if so, are parents aware of and OK with the trade-offs?
Posted by Papa-Lu at December 26, 2007 9:03 PM
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