TEDxRainier. Dec 27, 2011
Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician, parent, and researcher whose influential findings are helping identify optimal media exposure for children.
Baby Einstein: Baby MacDonald
there were 17 scene changes; about one every three seconds …
and of course, it’s nothing like being on a real farm, right?
Adults watching this find it confabulating because your mind is trying to make a coherent narrative out of this. And there is no coherent narrative, it jumps all over the place!
The Overstimulation Hypothesis:
Prolonged exposure to rapid image change during critical period of brain development ->
Precondition mind to expect high levels of stimulation ->
Innatention in later life.
13:12 Novel Object Recognition
13:49 Overstimulated mice either don’t remember which object is novel or don’t care. But one way or another, they were not learning, not acting like normal mice.
14:15 Building Blocks Study
Parents got “blocktivities”
promoting interactive play promoted language development
If we change the beginning of the story, we change the whole story.
related:
an illustrative example: League of Legends
When It Comes to Kids, Is All Screen Time Equal?
Dimitri Christakis, MD
September 11, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/11/439192407/when-it-comes-to-kids-is-all-screen-time-equal
The way our brain is stimulated matters, especially when we’re young. Our brains are being shaped by that stimulation.
typical passive media
“I did it”: how important it is to their cognitive and social development