I just after the interesting discussions with my students during the school massacre Winnenden about the effect of media, especially on PC games for children once again been looking intensively for information or scientific findings. We find indeed for consumer opposition and representatives of the "educational value" mass material. What struck me is the distribution of contributions. The positive effects of TV and video games are claimed by industry and their paid scientists. Very reminiscent of the campaigns for "educational toy", and so is particularly colorful and a lot of noise.
The votes against (unrestricted) media consumption in children are consistently by independent scientists. The reasons for the rejection are either sociologically or statistically neurobiological psychologically based. For the former approach, I've found here a revealing report entitled "The Pisa losers". It is shown, among other things, why boys are the losers in school performance.
www.kfn.de / versions / kfn / assets / pisaverlierer.pdf
for the neurobiological findings need only google times the professors Spitzer and Huether.
conclusion is always that it is purely economic reasons that speak for the media habits of children. Even the supposedly valuable educational programs draw itself above all by making them less damaging.
learning Technically the most devastating are computer games because of the emotionally charged interaction over many hours need to know what was perhaps but somehow gets into the school to the brain, is cleared efficiently. It is first not even an ethical question whether murder games are bad, but a memory and psychological. Violence is extremely emotionally charged, that is particularly effective when deleting less emotionally charged information, such as schoolwork.
Why the policy spread these truths so little and so empowering parents in a position to make informed decisions, rather than to do with banning campaign debates, is probably a question that takes its place in the sadly long list of similar questions as to alcohol advertising, etc..
MP
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