How the iPad affects young children, and what we can do about it: Lisa Guernsey at TEDxMidAtlantic
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2014
- Lisa Guernsey is Director of the New America Foundation's Early Education Initiative. Ms. Guernsey focuses on elevating dialogue about early childhood education, in part by editing the Early Ed Watch blog, and spotlighting new approaches for helping disadvantaged children succeed. Ms. Guernsey's most recent book is Screen Time: How Electronic Media -- From Baby Videos to Educational Software -- Affects Your Young Child.
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Please stop giving your children a screen to stare at in restaurants, in the car, etc. Young kids learn by watching and absorbing things around them. How people are interacting with each other, how they talk, what they are doing, why they are doing what they do... with their head down in a screen they are missing out on thousands of little signals and learning experiences every day, and the questions that come with them . If you can't engage or communicate with your child in these situations, or selfishly have them stare at a device to keep them "busy" and not bother you - it's on you. Bad parenting.
very well said, some parents struggle to grasp these logical concepts.
The internet is there to give your child questions to answer when they can't find them. When they think they know EVERYTHING about their environment, the Internet not only lets them explore the world, but, can also provide them with a place to communicate with others and help better grasp these concepts.
BTW, if you want your child to start off learning at a high level, start with the Eyewitness books. They're non-fiction, and have lots of pictures. Fiction teaches us lessons about ourselves, non-fiction, about the world. I've always found that giving a child an impossible problem to solve, and let their mind work, is the best way to test how well they grasp what they've been taught. Don't let any millionaire in a suit and tie tell you otherwise, considering there's no money in successful students these days.
@@savagenovelist2983 Yes, it can be a good educational device -- that's a different topic.
YES! We stress this to parents all time. Use these moments to connect with each other, not your screens!
My daughter was about 18 months and she was watching TV where kids are dancing. I notice that she imitates the child on the show and learned how to dance. She took my hand bring me close to the TV next to her and started to dance and she convinced me that I need to dance as well. To please my daughter I had to dance. I got here because she is now two and I am wondering if it is ok to get her and IPad. I have gotten a lot of insight on this subject from this Ted show and the comments. I have decided to get the ipad, but I will monitor the time she will use it and the application she accessed. I will do my best to be responsible and ready to remove the ipad from her if I notice it impacts her negatively. I promise myself to be responsible as I may control the ipad better than the TV, and also learned how she can uses the ipad in a beneficial way.
I am a therapist for young children who have ASD. It’s incredible the difference in development and treatment success screen time makes in the children I’ve worked with. The kids I’ve worked with whose parent allow free access to the iPad are less interested in learning how to read, they’re less interested in playing games or interacting with their siblings. It’s so sad and frustrating.
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“Work with only those who want to work with you” said my old boss. The advice changed my life!
Just like food. Balance is everything. My children are not allowed to game or watch tv during the week. However, during the weekend there is a limit on it. Being a parent is hard, especially the first few years but you reap what you sow and children grow a lot quicker and putting in the work is SO WORTH it.
Hmm yea that’s a little unfair after a hard day of school or something idk
@@whitehole9726 agreed
@@whitehole9726 well Im assuming they're talking about young kids below 10 years old they have no long school days
Just like food its not healthy to restrict access to it either
@@katarinafrenchfry6825I can't believe someone would liken food to screentime but there we go. You need one of those to survive. Allowing unrestricted access to screentime is unhealthy.
Children and teenagers learn from back and forth conversations. Very true.
I think this is the most important take away from this video.
The iPad is an 11 year old piece of technology. I know people with younger siblings who were raised with an iPad. Technology can be addictive for them. Toddlers sob when their devices die and need to be charged. Those kids are as old as 14 now. They have issues. Parents, please monitor your kids screen time. Apple does it automatically.
I’m only 18 but I try to limit my non college related tech use to 3-4 hours a day. It was rough to not check every notification, but I’ve noticed my sleep and my mental health are much better. My parents gave me a flip phone when I was in middle school, I didn’t have an iPhone until my junior year of high school (I had a galaxy S4 in 2018). I plan to raise my kids low tech as well, I don’t care how integrated technology becomes with our lives it’s not good for them. Yet I see people bringing their kids to a parts store with an iPad in their hands.
Lisa Guernsey is so fabulous! Loved the anecdotes! Loved the talk!
I think I watched this in one of my classes. It's a very interesting TEDTalk.
I fear this generation will have no innovators, no free thinkers, no philosophers. These kids haven’t been giving a minute to be alone with their thoughts, creativity and imagination. They would rather what a child through a screen play with a toy than play with a toy themselves. It’s really sad and teachers are only just going to start seeing the negative impact of shoving an ipad or tv in front of a kids face. Ik being a parent is tiring and hard but please try at least limit their tike infront of screens. They’ll turn out much better in the longterm. Children need to develop an imagination and creativity not how to use an ipad. They can learn that when they’re older, let kids be damn kids not zombies to a screen
Yep, I have this fear too. Research shows creativity and empathy in plummeting in the younger generations, with increases in narcissism and mental illness. As a kid, growing up playing outside, socializing with other kids, playing with toys and imagining my own scenarios really developed my creativity. I became an entrepreneur with a love for developing new businesses and concepts. It breaks my heart seeing so many zombified children glued to an iPad and screen everywhere they go and with parents who are perfectly content with it because it keeps their kid obedient and quiet.
Well done, touching on some important studies, and questions that parents as well as media developers should be aware of.
Thank you for the work you are doing. This is perfect!
I will try to apply this part: "what if we were to commit to ensure that every family with
young children had access to a media mentor?
This could be someone like a children's librarian,
a child care professional, a preschool teacher,
even parents themselves.
We have the power to talk with our kids about what their seeing
to understand the media in new ways with them,
to help them see how it might relate to the outside world to
help them look up from the media and do some activities in the
kitchen and go out to the backyard and go for a
treasure hunt.
We can learn from the media and then apply that outside"
I am a teacher, and in my country nearly all schools hands out a free iPad to each kid when they start school (they start school the year they turn 6, so the youngest are 5 1/2). Many of the apps we use need sound, so the kids will also sit with headphones. Parents and kids to get a course in safe use of internett, and we have lots of rules the kids have to follow when using the iPad. But try getting a 6 year old to concentrate on a math app, when RUclips og other more funny apps, are just a sweep away. Yes there are some good things with it, especially when used in combination with other activities, but in my experience many of the kids learn less from iPad apps than from sitting with pen and paper or doing hands on activities. I also belive children are becoming less able to concentrate, worse in social interactions, and more angry.
This video has value, I feel that the negative comments are from viewers who were hoping for information on the bare bones questions like "How harmful are screens to young children" because I'm of the belief that most parents are more weary of the child's age, time spent, , and content of the screen time
A must watch
My daughter is 4 and has a good playmate/friend who is 5. Whenever we get together to play... whether it be at the playground, our backyard, the beach.. this kid always has his iPad with him. Always. His mother (who I’m Friendly with) allows him to take a iPad to a play date that’s usually outdoors ?!?! And in between whatever activity the kids are doing, he will intermittently stop and go watch RUclips etc.
I find it behind ridiculous & pathetic actually that he’s aloud to do this. 🤦🏻♀️
Yeah that’s annoying
That’s so bad
Thanks Suzy - great talk. I'm sorry I only just found it, as it has many echoes of my own Tedx talk - you referenced Plato, I used Socrates! I urge anyone finding this to listen through to the end, as your link with technology is a key one, and growing ever more important.
This ted talk just made me realize how genius Dora the explorer is
i found that there is a sudden cliff jump off from the neatly packaged infant videos (all that "wheels on the bus" stuff) that i could immerse my child in and what they watch once they learn how to search on youtube (at about 5 or 6). my son is in a sort of chaos cacophony of images and cheap humor. but that is a the world he is navigating, and he does also incline towards meaningful topics, of his own volition. i would prefer this chaos to what i had growing up - watching the same episode of Yogi Bear for the hundredth time
Kids have a natural instinct for the next big thing...
In the 80s and 90s, parents would worry about kids spending time on computers, thinking they should go outside or develop 'job skills'... Not knowing they were instinctively developing better future skills..
We should be looking to them for idea's...
teens and young adults, yes. most certainly! but small children have their ability to learn, innovate and inventory for their whole lives if they are exposed to screen time as young children. it's fully proven science now.
this is so amazing wow wow wow unbelivible
Engaging in dialogue with our children, whether it's reading, other activities, or watching the screen(tv, phone)......and maintaing a good balance....moderation, not chronic use .....and there are positive, underlying messages and lessons that can be learned.....face to face interaction and dialogue(eye contact, facial expressions, body language) with parents and others so important....'it takes a village(or community) to raise a child'...... parents
This is interesting. I have found that adults who understand and familiarize themselves with technology can become their child's media mentor. I come across so many parents and teachers that are afraid of technology and have absolutely no idea what their kids are doing on their phones and tablets. Most parents would rather ban digital devices instead of learning more about them. This can be dangerous seeing as technology runs our world. Banning technology is setting your child up to be unprepared in a digital age.
It is better that they learn how to work technology at a later age, and spend their early years, up until their teenage years developing curiosity, creativity, social skills, physical abilities, and learning to be fine when bored. Otherwise we will just be creating a generation of impatient, depressed, anxious, lazy people who do not know how to function without technology by their side for every task.
Completely agreed, Norah, thank you!
@@norahharman9669 Too late, we have already created that generation! and were starting on a second generation right now!
Its easy to learn how to navigate technology, what these children will never get back are the years they did not spend developing a curious, creative and social mind. You have that foundation, learning technology a bit later is a cake walk and theyll have the ability to make smart decisions themselves about this technology and how they use it.
I had no ipad or iphone or xbox or whatever and yet here I am, working technology so looks like it’ll be fine if you limited tech after all!
with the advent of new technologies, there are many devices which children can use in their spare time, and they can spend their free time in various ways. there are both merits and dismerits to this penomenon; however, I believe that the drawbacks override its benefits.
before the advent of new devices, children usually spent their free time by doing various activities outside home. but now, it has changed. children prefer to stay at home and play with those devices which makes them inactive and isolated
I bought my kids an iPad at 1 year old, installed high quality learning apps and I use it to teach them things. Some of them are on subscription used by in actual kinder gardens. My kid used to be zombified when ads on on TV came on so disconnected cable TV so we can only watch Netflix.
I'm going to be honest, eventually I removed all electrons for everyone in the house because she was too hyper at sleep time
For the puppet experiment, my theory is that the kids that watched it on a tv couldn't show where the puppets had been hiding in the real room because they would have a had a short period of time when going from the tv to the room where their brains would have been stimulated by other things, and by the time they reached the room, they had forgotten. However, the kids who were watching the room through a cutout in a box would have remembered it instantly as the cardboard would simply have been taken away, and hardly anything else would have majorly stimulated their brains.
By giving our children more activities which is not connected with i pad example traditional games
Yes! We show up to our family events with hula hoops, yoyos, sidewalk chalk, balls, etc. Kids absolutely NEED these types of activities, away from screens!
It’s weird how I automatically separated between my generation and theirs, but you’re older daughter is my age now 4 years later... I wonder why it is we experience content as if it’s unfolding in the present. Can anyone relate to this and at what age?
I’d really like to find out more about this
I got my first ds at age 6
My child can have any device they're able to build from scratch.
This Tedx was not boring at all!! Please don't listen to comments before you watch. Make your own opinion. I personally learned a lot from this! And I felt she addressed valid concerns about children learning.
yep seems most of the naysayers dont have kids or have an extended network of people to pass them off to, neighbors, relatives, etc.... some people are literally around their kids most of the day and have to have time away.
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Come on, everybody knows BigBird hasn't been acted by a real bird since the 70's
the level of condescension in some of these comments is quite funny/ironic considering we are all on youtube rn lmaoo
@Jordan 209 That's the maximum that tech could teach you?
@@MJruling mhm yes lemme interpret a joke as a measure of my intelligence
@@MJruling w
are we 5 tho?
@@gumi_days4384 yes
I love my ipad
Perfect.
I agree with Kati. Parents do not need media mentors, they need parental mentors.
Wasn't till age 10 I realised puppets weren't real ...so...but I was born in 84' so...yeh🙄
Wow
I was over thirty when I realized Mr. Rodgers was doing the voices and moving his puppets, and I was also an '84 baby!
my father sent this link to my mum and luckily i saw it before mom did😅...
or you know not give them an ipad
Problem is not a technology but how you are using it
Remember, it's just a bad day, not a bad life. Keep smiling everyone :) 😀😘😍
I think media is the most powerful tools to refresh the brain of the kids.It will make them to change a lot aside from parenting ur child.
have you guys noticed that every ted talk is full of time wasting stories that are slightly funny. like they are just talking about a meme or something sneakily to waste time. this video should have been 5 minutes
So to summarize: dont leave your kids alone
Frank Fahrenheit Until smart phones became ubiquitous, that was the advice right across the board: you dont leave your kids unsupervised with advanced technology. Its still the right thing to do but society has become so overwhelmed that most have abandoned it.
That's a poor summary. A better one would be : less digital technology use for children
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Children/teenagers should have very limited time on smart phones and tablets as their eye sight could become affected from staring at a fixed point in space for extended periods of time.
I like that she is investigating but dont like that she seems fine with the tech insisting it needs to be a part of a young brains development
well done on stating the complete obvious.
Who else is watching on an ipad
lol....It's all about balance
3 words: Use Parental Controls
omg *no* *NO* *NOO*
Posted a day before my bday xD
Addicted to staring at a screen? Yeah me too and I just made something on it, please see it, its my latest upload or just type in this......Addicted to a screen
This is so awesome ! A woman with maybe a slight east coast accent her name is Guernsey . . . At . . . TEDxMidAtlantic ! ! !
So your telling me if I'm to poor for an iPad I'm fine ok I'll continue using electronics.
Gizmo0816 it applies to all devices even a Android device.
@@nebulouscat5477 you just got whooshed.
What’s better, a kid acting out, or following a show that teaches colours shapes or numbers? What neurological connections do you want to enhance? While A kid is whining in a mall and during cooking.. a repetitive alphabetical show is better than the latter.
I Don’t want to praise tantrums with shows but with their understanding of how to act with respect, if my child is frustrated I turn the focus from damn this sucks to hey this is interesting. They love repetitive everything, even the same show over and over, but nothing beats one on one communication, positive reinforcement :) and outdoor activity. Two hours and even more outdoor one on one is the ultimate eye opener for someone that’s 600 days old
A child will not develop their frustration tolerance if they're never allowed to deal with the feelings and have to be distracted immediately
@@Te3time Quick gratification can be addicting, time is the only love, that’s what kids crave at that age, any rebellious activities for attention
If u think your child is smart because an ipad,try take the gadjet from them for a day..then u will face the reality.sad fact many parents let flat screen replace them..of course today world in digital era we can't completely ignore that,BUT don't let them alone with that tools.
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I got my first IPhone at age 10
So can someone tell me, can a baby/toodler watch TV or not?
We shouldn't let them use screens until 12.
Candlelight Cove, anyone?
Calling “modern technology” doesn’t make it any “better” than 100 years ago. The radiation these smartphones, iPads, produce is unbelievable.
the "radiation" it emits is the same as a CRT TV.
lmao
every light you see is radiation. every sound you hear is radiation.
@@user-ui7tn1fq2b Well... I think I was trying to talk about the heat these electronic devices produce, and the eye strain the screens produce...
I grew up the right way, watching Bill Nye.
Dont research kids like that
My daughter learned everything from her iPad she's smart and surprises me everyday.
Sally Mun so she didn’t learn anything from face to face interaction, creative play, being outside and exploring nature? If your saying your child learned EVERYTHING from the screen then that’s sad
Jordan 209 okay sheeple. You’re so clever
@@fastpitchmermaid4550 Self proclaimed "free thinkers" after the traffic light turns red. 🐑
The speaker talks a lot but says nothing. An expert at passing time (& wasting ours) inbetween pay checks.
My Dauhther learned names of all the colors and a significant amount of different Animals in another language (english) before She did Her own (Danish) .. She even learned Herself counting to ten all by Her own, at the age of 1,5-2 years.. wtf?? Longlive the AsianBabysitting (ipad, smartphone, and so on...)
Is this a bad thing or not? Cannot deside 😂
Asian babysitting in my experience is more like a self-taught method. I would know. I was the result of it.
Lol
Y’all parents and adults saying how technology causes violence but yet, you think beating and screaming curse words at your kids thinking that’s ok?
One of her daughters looks like maddie maccan
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Interaction as screens are in the child's face. They learn from interaction versus sitting and staring.
it makes them watch terrible content and makes them think TikTok's are funny.
If kids can't watch screens than how will they watch this vid?
Aayzer Sifer mmm mmm.e mmm
They don't need to watch this
It's for parents.
society wants to keep creating more screen addiction…
Sorry young lady, it is not media mentors kids need but tome to interact with parents and other kids. Picture books-yes! Real people functioning in the real world-yes. I wonder what neuroscientists could add to this?
Kati, I totally agree with you, kids need time and freedom and people who take care and interest. Still, whenever they interact with media, they should have someone there who helps them understand instead of just letting them be alone with it. I don't think it's either/or, we live in a time with media all around us, so we need to also incorporate that into our lives with our kids.
***** Yes, I agree with you. But since kids DO get in contact with media, we need to be conscious of this fact and teach them how to use and how not to use it if necessary. Ideally kids stay kids as long as possible. There are good way of dealing with media and then there are bad ways.
BORING! Too much time wasted ,instead of the effects,she spends time telling us to watch the CONTENT!
child seeng this
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I tried to listen but this talk was SO BORING. I didn’t make it to 5 minutes.
Ok boomer
Ted Talks are as bad as TV, only they're aimed at adults.
Media mentor... great idea, get those parents out of the way and grab those kids while they're young.
complete waste of time
The more TED talks I watch, with rare exceptions, the more I see a pile of nothing... sorry, the lady seems nice and this is not personal but by God, what is that? I have a sad feeling that our universities are producing more and more of the finest imbeciles that unfortunately end up stucking our educational system with futilities. Give the kid a stick and they may teach her something.
Dária Ratliff Not all research is terribly productive, but sometimes it uncovers important things. Such as drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause serious health and developmental issues for the baby. Or not everybody learns the same way - auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Studying new technology in these contexts is valuable. We want to know how best to help our children.
I agree....some Ted talks are helpful but others seem lacking in content. She seems nice but there is little here.
She didnt say almost anything about effects,she spoke only about irrelevant things.
"GO READ A BOOK" I hate when people say that.
GO READ A BOOK