Television can affect learning and school performance if it cuts into the time kids need for activities crucial to healthy mental and physical development. Most of children's free time, especially during the early formative years, should be spent in activities such as playing, reading, exploring nature, learning about music or participating in sports. Media Awareness Network
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), kids in the United States watch about 4 hours of TV a day, even though the AAP guidelines say children - and only those over 2 years old - should watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming. Kidshealth
Our single most important challenge is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to excel at their level of capacity, and the most important place to start is with early childhood development. David Crane, Business Columnist, Toronto Star
Our single most important challenge is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to excel at their level of capacity, and the most important place to start is with early childhood development. David Crane,Toronto Star Business Columnist
The broader and more diverse the experience when very young, the greater are the chances that, later in life, the individual will be able to handle open, ambiguous, uncertain and novel situations . Stephen J. Quartz and Terrence Sejnowski
Even the amount of stress a baby is exposed to ... can determine not just how well they do in school, but if they're happy or have solid social relationships - it can also their physical health, mental health and their risk of depression, autoimmune disorders, cancer, whatever. Stuart Shanker, President , Council of Early Childhood Development
This video was created as an introduction for a presentation at Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) . The session was designed to show teachers how to connect their classrooms to the world of information.
Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children’s well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many “languages,” or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities.
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