The Effects of Television

While loosing creativity, the child can also gain impatience. By having all the stories and facts plastered clear in front of them, they can easily lose interest sitting in a classroom all day. Even during their favorite TV shows, there is a brief change of pace in the story line when a commercial comes on, which is about every seven minutes. Their attention spans are being molded by this continuous interruption, causing them to loose focus easily.
             Research has shown that teachers today are using many more multimedia devices to capture the student's attention. Being so used to seeing information provided by the TV, they are more responsive to learning with it in school, and are more likely to remember it. Many links are showing up in studies between Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and watching too much television in elementary children. This disorder is becoming more common in the classroom, where they have a hard time concentrating. along
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