Fill it up Friday Each Friday we will look at an article to fill up on the whys of teaching. Today we are going to look at an article that touches on a subject that impacts all of us- screen time. I am shocked by the amount of time the average child in my school is sitting in front of a screen. They not only watch television at home but now there are shows and games on phones, televisions mounted in the car, tablets, and computers that are accessible nearly 24/7. In the NAEYC publication, Beyond the Remote-Controlled Childhood , Dianne Levin addresses some topics that we encounter daily with our children. One of my favorite terms that she puts forth is "age compression." This is a term that labels something that many of us have been watching for years. Levin states, "age compression is a term used by media professionals and marketers to describe how children at ever-younger ages are doing what older children used to do (pg 33)." WO...
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