Blog #3

Digital Media

Study: Games, Video Improve Preschooler Literacy

By David Nagel

10/14/09

http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/10/14/study-games-video-improve-preschooler-literacy.aspx

The article that I read is about integrating games and video into preschool classrooms and how it could be good for their learning. There are people that think that games on computers and videos harm children, but they are actually a good way of learning for them. There was a study done and it showed that there were some teachers that included videos and games in the lesson and the students were more prepared in literacy skills when entering kindergarten than the students that didn't have videos and games included in their lessons. the children that were included in this study were from low income families. Some of the sections that the students improved on were names of letters, the sounds of letters, the knowledge of letters in names, and story and print concepts.
I would agree with having videos and games included in the lessons because it would get a hold of the students attention. I would also like to learn what kinds of videos and games could be included in the lessons and how long the videos and games should be.