Electronic Babysitters Intro. Awesome.

There exists today a rift in consensus concerning the effectiveness of educational media in babies’ and toddlers’ intellectual growth. Although the products that are being churned out in vast quantites claim to improve vocabulary, one is led to wonder whether these are truly grounded facts. Parents concerned with whether to trust education media such as Baby Einstein and Dora the Explorer or not often suggest manually working with their children as a viable alternative. One must look into scientific research on the matter to truly assuage one’s curiosity about the subject, especially in the light of the fact that these claims are offset by accusations that it is media itself that is harming children’s educational and academic potential. As it were, statistical data is readily available on a number of these products, comparing their expected performance to their actual. The results serve to suggest at what the overall effect of such dependency on child-rearing media can be. Media is no stranger to the public eye – it has been repeatedly attacked and defended by various groups in the past. In the field of academics in particular, media tends to play a large, and wholly diverse role. In order to better comprehend the nature of media schooling for babies and toddlers, one can look at the media related to the lives and study habits of older children. Media plays a number of roles in this regard – first, there is media used by teachers in a classroom setting, breaking the expected norm of the conventional teaching methods of lectures and hands-on demonstrations. The other type of media is the face that the general public has come more to know – recreational pastimes such as television, internet, and video gaming. These outlets are notably reviled by extreme activists; it shouldn't be too far from the truth to assert that in today's society, most people are familiar with the claim that media is in a sense education's bane, regularly being the cause of lacklustre performances and scores in the academic setting. Although any widespread argument possesses its share of overarching and, at times, blatantly untruthful claims, it nevertheless cannot be denied that with a campaign so well-known, the argument that media is an educational deterrent must have its strands of veracity in it. In fact, when all things are considered, it is a veritable opinion to have that educational media probably has fewer benefits than it claims to have, and quite possibly a number of negative side effects, specifically when exposed to those of a young age.