Topic: Media age on Children learning

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the discussion the facilitator/s are able to:

 Discuss the following trends and issues Concerning Media age on
children learning
 Limiting Children’s Screen Time to Increase Physical Activity
 Children’s creativity is declining
 New guideline of screen time for children
 Can technology really help teach literacy in poor
communities?

At the end of the discussion the students/s are able to:

 Share their experiences during their childhood years with

technology
 talk about what they observe or see regarding the early media
age on children learning or the children and the technology

I. MATERIALS
A. Traditional Technology
1. chalk
II. REFERENCES

http://www.dailynews.com/lifestyle/20161128/nutrition-limiting-childrens-screen-time-to-increase-
physical-activity

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667716/How-digital-media-has-changed-creativity.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161021093834.htm

http://news.mit.edu/2016/literacy-apps-poor-communities-0426
A. Activity
Procedure:
a. Ask each of the students to share their experience with
modern technology, what is the effect of modern
technology in their life or studies and how they use modern
technologies in learning.
B. Analysis
Since the topic is about media age in children’s learning,
the activity somehow becomes an opportunity for students
to share their experiences on learning in media age.
C. Abstraction
 Limiting Children’s Screen Time to Increase Physical Activity
 Children’s creativity is declining
 no time for free time (due to this issue the American
Academy of Pediatrics make a new guideline for
screen time for children)
 Can technology really help teach literacy in poor
communities?

D. Application
Activity:
a. Group the class into two or three.
b. Ask each group to make a short skit on how you (the
students) as a teacher or an adult will going to use
modern technology in teaching younger children and
how you are going to discipline the young ones when it
comes to using media (specifically the social medias).
c. Give them five minutes to make the skit.