Sara DeWitt: 3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true
سارة دويت: ثلاثة مخاوف بشأن الوقت المخصص للأطفال على شاشات الأجهزة التقنية ولِمَ هي ليست صحيحة
Inspired by Mister Rogers, Sara DeWitt strives to make every child feel special by charting the forefront of new digital mediums where kids spend their time. Full bio
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by thinking about this device,
in your pockets right now.
أنه في جيوبكم الآن.
check their phones
يتحققون من هواتفهم
of waking up every morning.
another 50 times during the day.
to be a necessity.
in the hands of a three-year-old,
في أيدي طفل يبلغ من العمر ثلاث سنوات،
their children's social growth;
سيعيقُ النمو الاجتماعي لأبنائهم.
from getting up and moving;
a preschooler interacting with a screen.
يتفاعل مع الشاشة.
up and moving even more.
أن تجعل الأطفال تنهض وتتحرك أكثر.
about what a child is learning
have the power
an unlikely champion for this cause.
with kids and books.
about preschoolers and websites.
مرحلة ما قبل المدرسة ومواقع الويب.
a three-year-old named Maria.
تُدعى ماريا،
a computer before.
was teach her how to use the mouse,
تعليمها كيفية استخدام الفأرة،
she moved it across the screen,
named X the Owl.
pushed back from the table, leaped up
واندفعت من وراء الطاولة، وقفزت
frantically back at him.
for a three-year-old.
لطفلة تبلغ من العمر ثلاث سنوات.
for more than 15 years,
تابعة لمحطة بي بي إس لأكثر من 15 عامًا،
harnessing the power of technology
we're missing a big opportunity.
their potential
is nothing new;
ليس شيئًا جديدًا
about the newly dominant media:
حول وسيلة الإعلام المسيطرة حديثًا،
from one another.
from the outside world.
of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,"
to look at television as a tool,
emotional growth.
and he held a conversation,
to each child individually
across the media landscape today,
عبر أوساط وسائل الإعلام اليوم،
in the eyes of children.
في حياة الأطفال.
this feeling of anxiety.
أفهمُ هذا الشعور من القلق.
at three common fears
from getting up and moving."
are zoologist brothers
من علماء الحيوان
called "Wild Kratts."
يُدعى "المستكشفان".
a very natural kid play pattern --
التقاط صورة طفل عادي جدًا يلعبُ نموذجًا
on-screen with wings.
and we turned off the screens?
to catch mosquitoes.
لإلتقاط البعوض.
and fold their wings in.
ويطوون أجنحتهم إلى الداخل.
up and moving.
ينهضون ويتحركون.
في الهواء الطلق،
differently than I flew
عما طرتُ
embodied learning
للخروج إلى العالم.
is just a waste of time.
هو مجرد مضيعة للوقت.
from their education."
about a player's skill
before they found the right answer?
الإجابة الصحيحة؟
and apply it to academic learning.
وتطبيقها على التعليم الأكاديمي.
(Curious George)
80 preschoolers play these games.
يلعبون هذه الألعاب.
of those preschoolers
البالغ عددهم 80 طفلًا
were actually helping kids
wanted us to dig deeper.
لوس أنجلوس أن نبحث أعمق.
and student assessment.
that back-end game-play data
في المرحلة النهائية
to predict a child's math scores.
في التنبؤ بعلامات الرياضيات للطفل.
they essentially trained the computer
دربوا في الأساس الحاسوب
standardized math scores.
للاختبار القياسي الموحد.
of each child's score,
some Curious George games.
that these games weren't built
لم يتمُ بناؤها
believes that games like these
أن ألعابًا مثل هذه
about a child's cognitive learning
تعلّم الطفل الإدراكي
testing time in the classroom?
من مدة الاختبار في غرفة التدريس؟
snapshots of insight
لمحات معرفية
their individualized learning?
على التعلّم الفردي؟
is often the biggest.
from my child."
of uninterrupted time
you hand a tablet to your three-year-old.
من العمر ثلاث سنوات جهازًا لوحيًا.
where you probably feel very guilty
التي ربما تشعرُ فيها بالذنب الشديد
you receive a text message.
that's always within arm's reach.
في متناول اليد.
five rhyming words.
خمسة كلمات على نفس القافية.
that rhymes with 'cat'?
simple tips like these,
نصائح بسيطة مثل هذه،
at the dinner table with their kids.
على مائدة العشاء.
that their parents knew
بأن أولياء أمورهم عرفوا
with their parents.
about their media
published a study
نشرت جامعة تكساس التقنية بحثًا
Neighborhood" could promote
catch to this study:
لهذه الدراسة:
when parents talked to kids
عندما تحدث أولياء الأمور إلى الأطفال
actually talk to kids about the content
نادرًا ما يتحدثون إلى أطفالهم حول محتوى
and what they're watching.
with my four-year-old.
البالغ أربع سنوات.
earlier today?"
بلعبة الحافلة؟"
that I made my car out of a pickle?
أخرجتُ حافلتي من ورطتها؟
about what was fun in the game
حول ما الذي كان ممتعًا في اللعبة
to school that morning.
في ذلك الصباح.
that all digital media is great for kids.
الرقمية ممتازة بالنسبة إلى الأطفال.
for us to be concerned
بالنسبة إلينا لنهتم
of children's content
to be thinking about balance:
against all the other things
to learn and to grow?
لكي يتعلّم وينمو؟
in the same world that we live in,
الذي نعيش فيه،
check their phones
من هواتفهم المحمولة
how and why to use them.
كيف ولِمَ يستخدمون هذه الشاشات.
على نحو منتظم
for the positive impacts
in our children's lives?
في حياة أطفالنا؟
can become a reality.
هذه الأدوات حقيقة واقعة.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sara DeWitt - Children’s media expertInspired by Mister Rogers, Sara DeWitt strives to make every child feel special by charting the forefront of new digital mediums where kids spend their time.
Why you should listen
Sara DeWitt's work in the children's digital space was first inspired by Mister Rogers's approach to television. Just as he strove to make every child feel special through that new medium, her vision is to make each interaction with a game, stream and view an opportunity for children, parents, and teachers to learn and delight in new discoveries.
Over the last 18 years, DeWitt has worked at the forefront of new platforms, in an effort to be everywhere kids are: from websites and mobiles apps to streaming video, augmented reality, 3D-rendered experiences, and wearable technologies. She oversees the Kidscreen- and Webby-award winning pbskids.org website, PBS KIDS streaming video services and the PBS KIDS portfolio of educational apps for children. In 2014, she was named one of the top 42 Women Leading in Education by the USC Rossier School of Education and one of the Top Women in Digital by Cynopsis Media in 2016.
Before her career in public media, DeWitt worked as a preschool teacher, a management researcher and studied media habits of children in rural areas of the United States. She is a military spouse who has moved with her husband and two young sons four times in the last five years. They currently live in Alexandria, Virginia.
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