The growth of media has had an ever-expanding role in the lives of children, especially in terms of a child’s physical and mental health. Here, Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, comments on media as a force that powerfully affects child development, health, and [...]
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http://www.YouTheSmartBuyer.com/child-learning – Book Potatos
Do you know that a child can read more than 100 books and master 5,600 rare words in a year… while watching TV!
In fact many children prefer TV than books … very worried about how to get her off the tube
You are not alone in feeling that something has gone awfully wrong!
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In this University of Washington program, Carolyn Webster-Stratton, professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington, talks about why some children are aggressive. Early onset aggression in children as young as age 3 is the single most-important predictor of later delinquency, substance abuse and violence. Webster-Stratton examines how effective prevention and intervention [...]
In southern Bangladesh climate change is now a reality. Local people are having to
adapt as fertile land becomes encrusted with salt, killing crops and fouling drinking
water. Millions of Bangladeshis may need to leave the delta as
climate change becomes more severe.
This film is an entry to a micro-documentary film contest, ‘Vulnerability Exposed: Social Dimensions of Climate [...]
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip live at the Social 10.02.07
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“It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online,” says Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and the lead author of the most extensive U.S. study to date on teens and their use of digital media. The study showed that America’s youth [...]
The urban area of Zaragoza, the eight in Spain in terms of population (almost 700,000 inhabitants) has in recent years demonstrated its will to make the most of its strategic position in the peninsular – on the one hand the Madrid-Barcelona axis and on the other, the Valencia-Bilbao axis, through strong investment in infrastructures, renewing [...]
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/29/James_Heckman_An_Economists_Perspective_on_Education
Economist James Heckman links “soft skills” such as perseverance, attention, motivation, and self-confidence to “success in society at large.” Heckman argues that investing in socio-cultural skills will provide more “economic and social return” than investing in social programs or infrastructure.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman delivers a talk titled “Schools, Skills, and Synapses: [...]
