Whenever I help babysit my sister, niece, or nephew, it makes me remember how fun it used to be a kid back in the old days. With all the toys, running around and naptimes that you can possibly get, I miss those precious moments. I started school when I just turned five years-old, and that was a long time ago. I can remember how in Kindergarten, my teacher always allowed the students to bring in their favorite toy to sleep with for nap time. I always brought a different teddy bear every time, and my teacher would always ask me this question: “How many teddy bears do you have?” And my answer was always a quick shrugged and “A lot.”
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Toys and Play
Toys are the tools of children’s play. Toys influence play. Toys of value enhance children’s own ideas. They help the child to engage in imaginative, meaningful play by allowing them to solve the problems (White and Walker, p. 144).
Back then, I loved buying new toys just for the reason that I wanted it and that I have one. Now that I think about it, I see toys as a waste of money because kids will only play with it for a while and at the end of the day, they’ll loose it or it ends up in the trash. However, it’s still an important value to kids. Toys and playtime give them a boost to interact with other people, especially if they are in day care or in preschool. “Play is very important in early childhood education because children learn so much while play is taking place” (White and Walker, p. 144). Although toys are good for kids, we can sometimes over look the image that these toys can display to them.
Some Kind of Interesting Fact: Tooning In, page 147
In 1959, the United Nations adopted the Rights of the Child, which included a “full opportunity to play” as one basic right of childhood…it means providing an environment in which children have the freedom to construct their own dramas built out of their own interpretations of reality.
Media Image
“Many of the messages in the media can undermine their sense of safety and trust” (White and Walker, p. 146). Everyday, toy industries are coming up with fresh ideas on designing new toys and yet, the toy companies and enterprises main target is to make toys that children will want to buy based. Most of the time, these are based off of interest surveys and records of what actually sells in the markets. However, exploit of bad images and ideas are still a problem in society today. It’s already bad enough in society that there’s violent television shows and R-rated commercials, but toys…isn’t that a little too much? The media is exploiting way too much – in considering that their target is also young children too. Creating the perfect image for women, advertising products, and all those other things puts pressure on them, thus making them think that that’s what they want and desire.
Kid Culture
Kid culture such as movies, television, music, media, toys, technology, sports, food, fashion, and fads can be used in a number of ways in education (White and Walker, p. 76).
Kid culture is the most important step prior to helping a young student learn. They need the interaction, the fun, and the exciting facts that would encourage the student to engage more in education. According to White and Walker, from their book Tooning In, “one area of kid culture that could easily be integrated into social education is television cartoons” (p. 77). I totally agree with them. What else can possibly influence a young mind more other than television itself? I have a 4 year-old sister and she’s always having the television turned on to PBS Kids. One of her favorite shows is Arthur, and it’s also one of my absolute favorite PBS Kids Show of all time. Arthur Just like Liberty’s Kids, Histeria, and Time Squad, PBS Kids provide effective learning tools and teachings that can allow kids to integrate into their education.
Kindergarten is the best time to affiliate a young student into learning. They understand best when visual things are used to be demonstrate the lesson of the day or an activity. Young minds need that extra explanation to help plant critical skills and help them build a more sufficient understanding. In our last blog about shopping, using play money and play toys such as vegetables and a fake register can enable a young student to incorporate math lessons. For example, they can learn to add and subtract money. Toys and kids play are every essential factors that plays into education. Most learners are visual learners and needs that extra step for a better education.
Integrating kid culture for social education can enhance a critical and active citizenry able to think for itself and engage in problem solving (White and Walker, p. 76).
Toys and Play
Toys are the tools of children’s play. Toys influence play. Toys of value enhance children’s own ideas. They help the child to engage in imaginative, meaningful play by allowing them to solve the problems (White and Walker, p. 144).
Back then, I loved buying new toys just for the reason that I wanted it and that I have one. Now that I think about it, I see toys as a waste of money because kids will only play with it for a while and at the end of the day, they’ll loose it or it ends up in the trash. However, it’s still an important value to kids. Toys and playtime give them a boost to interact with other people, especially if they are in day care or in preschool. “Play is very important in early childhood education because children learn so much while play is taking place” (White and Walker, p. 144). Although toys are good for kids, we can sometimes over look the image that these toys can display to them.
Some Kind of Interesting Fact: Tooning In, page 147
In 1959, the United Nations adopted the Rights of the Child, which included a “full opportunity to play” as one basic right of childhood…it means providing an environment in which children have the freedom to construct their own dramas built out of their own interpretations of reality.
Media Image
“Many of the messages in the media can undermine their sense of safety and trust” (White and Walker, p. 146). Everyday, toy industries are coming up with fresh ideas on designing new toys and yet, the toy companies and enterprises main target is to make toys that children will want to buy based. Most of the time, these are based off of interest surveys and records of what actually sells in the markets. However, exploit of bad images and ideas are still a problem in society today. It’s already bad enough in society that there’s violent television shows and R-rated commercials, but toys…isn’t that a little too much? The media is exploiting way too much – in considering that their target is also young children too. Creating the perfect image for women, advertising products, and all those other things puts pressure on them, thus making them think that that’s what they want and desire.
Kid Culture
Kid culture such as movies, television, music, media, toys, technology, sports, food, fashion, and fads can be used in a number of ways in education (White and Walker, p. 76).
Kid culture is the most important step prior to helping a young student learn. They need the interaction, the fun, and the exciting facts that would encourage the student to engage more in education. According to White and Walker, from their book Tooning In, “one area of kid culture that could easily be integrated into social education is television cartoons” (p. 77). I totally agree with them. What else can possibly influence a young mind more other than television itself? I have a 4 year-old sister and she’s always having the television turned on to PBS Kids. One of her favorite shows is Arthur, and it’s also one of my absolute favorite PBS Kids Show of all time. Arthur Just like Liberty’s Kids, Histeria, and Time Squad, PBS Kids provide effective learning tools and teachings that can allow kids to integrate into their education.
Kindergarten is the best time to affiliate a young student into learning. They understand best when visual things are used to be demonstrate the lesson of the day or an activity. Young minds need that extra explanation to help plant critical skills and help them build a more sufficient understanding. In our last blog about shopping, using play money and play toys such as vegetables and a fake register can enable a young student to incorporate math lessons. For example, they can learn to add and subtract money. Toys and kids play are every essential factors that plays into education. Most learners are visual learners and needs that extra step for a better education.
Integrating kid culture for social education can enhance a critical and active citizenry able to think for itself and engage in problem solving (White and Walker, p. 76).
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