The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had signed a contract with a budding film-and-television studio to create the Center for Future Storytelling.
The report from the Children Now organization about how educational TV is not currently so educational.
Ed TV is not always so educational... (Also, it provides a ruberic to judge educational value of a program)
Review of the study that says not many ed tv shows are very educational...
FOR the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually
proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public
broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that
public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow
the usual script, this means it’s time for upset listeners and viewers to
rally to the cause, as they have in the past, and browbeat Congress into
restoring the budget.
CHICAGO - "Arthur" and "Barney" are OK for toddler TV-watching. But not "Rugrats" and certainly not "Power Rangers," reports a new study of early TV-watching and future attention problems.
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The research involved children younger than 3, so TV is mostly a no-no anyway, according to the experts. But if TV is allowed, it should be of the educational variety, the researchers said.
Before the Internet, iPhones and flash drives, people jousted over who was into the Pixies when they were still a garage band or who could most lengthily argue the merits of Oasis versus Blur. Now, for all but hardcore rock aficionados, one-upmanship is more likely to center around a television series...
At the time of publication of Lincoln Center Institute's Window on Robert Post, YouTube featured a number of clips of Sid Caesar's work from different stages in his career, from the The Show of Shows to Sesame Street to Whose Line Is It Anyway?
The Sid Caesar home page includes several video clips from Caesar's work in television. High and low resolution files are available for playback on Quicktime and RealPlayer.
This biography of Sid Caesar, from the Museum of Television and Radio's Web site, provides a list of his TV, stage, and film work, as well as a list of books for further research.
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The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had signed a contract with a budding film-and-television studio to create the Center for Future Storytelling.
The report from the Children Now organization about how educational TV is not currently so educational.
FOR the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow the usual script, this means it’s time for upset listeners and viewers to rally to the cause, as they have in the past, and browbeat Congress into restoring the budget.
CHICAGO - "Arthur" and "Barney" are OK for toddler TV-watching. But not "Rugrats" and certainly not "Power Rangers," reports a new study of early TV-watching and future attention problems. ADVERTISEMENT The research involved children younger than 3, so TV is mostly a no-no anyway, according to the experts. But if TV is allowed, it should be of the educational variety, the researchers said.
Before the Internet, iPhones and flash drives, people jousted over who was into the Pixies when they were still a garage band or who could most lengthily argue the merits of Oasis versus Blur. Now, for all but hardcore rock aficionados, one-upmanship is more likely to center around a television series...
At the time of publication of Lincoln Center Institute's Window on Robert Post, YouTube featured a number of clips of Sid Caesar's work from different stages in his career, from the The Show of Shows to Sesame Street to Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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