Expert Children have imagination and watch less television read more books

 In contemporary children's growing up, they receive information and access to the media is one of the main. So, TV, books, intellectual development of children will have any effect on what? Recently, the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences of the general education report

growth to be more the longest media for television, about 5.42 days per week, every day about 63 minutes; home followed by the books, the frequency of about 4.47 days per week, about 30.6 minutes per day. Broadcast and recording of children exposed to 90 after the child has been significantly reduced.

● Zhihong left of East China Normal University, Xi home Xinzha kindergarten Li Bingqing philosophy and other researchers believe, often changing the presentation of the TV screen, the story is advancing fast and fluid, the children often stare at the watch big eyes, still dizzying. The case when the reading is utterly different, kids are free to control their own scroll speed can be repeatedly read the same book or even the same page, which for them to fully understand the story, filling plot of provided sufficient time for action.

● recommendation is necessary to reasonable supervision and distribution of children's media exposure time and recreation; the second is appropriate to extend the reading time, increase the quantity of reading, and corresponding to shorten the time watching television, which should be useful choice.

still lack access to guidance

● children surveyed watch television is always accompanied by adults accounted for 12.56%, to always read the guidance or the parents of children accompanied by only 32.37%.

● Analysis of children's media use during the adult companionship and guidance still quite lacking, which led to the lack of children on the negative media selection and filtering, and media information on the positive and difficult to effectively absorb and use.

● recommendations to guide children in the proper use of media to play an active role in media exposure and limit their negative effects, should be the training focus of the creative imagination of children.

reading and promote creative imagination

● survey of , the length of time watching TV and

● analysis of television programs to simple audio-visual symbols as a carrier to spread, and its characters is an intuitive, fresh content plots tend to be coherent, complete, in the minds of viewers do not need to in any conversion process, you can accept, easy to rigid originality of the creative imagination of children and flexibility.

the book Zeyi words or static picture as a carrier has not yet developed abstract thinking in school children in need in the minds of the text description of the image into the specific needs of individual creative experience of life into so unique, and creative imagination of children of flexibility and originality, it is also the process of active construction in which to develop.

● recommends children watch TV or read books, parents can consciously make some predictive questions to encourage children to ask questions to progress the story, or guide them to design different story endings, search for a variety of solutions to problems and so on, which is to improve children's media information efficiency and the development of creative imagination are beneficial.

reporter Wang Wei