Instructor:  CJ Rooker

Welcome to the Collaboration Assignment focusing on:

Children and Media Violence.  

What do Children Learn? 

 What Can Parents Do?

Introduction

Children watch on the average three to five hours of television every day and it can have a positive effect on them.  It can open up new worlds for them and give them a chance to travel the globe, learn about different cultures, and expose them to ideas they may not encounter in their community.  Television is also a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Programs with positive role models can influence children to change their behavior for the better.  However, the reverse can also be true. Children’s viewing of violent programs, their identification with aggressive characters, and their perceptions that television violence is realistic can be linked to later aggression as young adults.  This is based on a 15-year longitudinal study published by Developmental Psychology (March 2003), a journal of the American Psychological Association.

Parents, teachers, and school administrators are concerned about the effects of excessive television viewing on children. We will brainstorm, research, and discuss violence in the media and what parents need to know and do about their child’s television viewing.

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