October 23, 2006
Teaching Kids With Mobile Video
Wireless streaming video is an effective teaching tool. At least, that's what one of the top educational media organizations in the country has found in a new study. Wireless Week reports via Moco News.
"A study on the benefits of using streaming video to teach young children has been conducted by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), sponsored by Sesame Street Workshop, Sprint, WestEd, and GoTV Networks.
Preschoolers participating in the study had video clips of "Learning Letters with Elmo" streamed to them weekly over the phones. Each lesson covered several letters of the alphabet, with new letters introduced each week. "All participants indicated improvements in children's knowledge of the ABC alphabet song as well as letters of the alphabet. At the end of the study, every child knew some of the letters, which was not the case in the beginning," said PBS in a statement."
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