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TENTATIVE THESIS:

During the 1950’s a new form of entertainment flooded the American entertainment mainstream—television. While television has been an influential aspect of daily life in American society for all age groups, children have been subject to direct and age-specific programming that has evolved into a lucrative faction of television programming as a whole. As more programs entered the television lineup, the delicate tapestry of the constructed ideal of childhood began to wither away and be replaced by a new construct, one that parallels more with the young technology generation of today and less with the construct of childhood in the early twentieth century. Overall, the past four decades have experienced revolutionary new educational ideals that can be expressed through the use of television media in the home and classroom in order to engage, cultivate, and entertain young minds.

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Evolution of Children’s Educational Television

I. Introduction – History of Educational Television

II. Issue #1 – Has education television become more engaging and entertaining? Jennifer

III. Issue #2 – How the changing ideas of childhood have influenced educational television and vice versa.Crystal

IV. Issue #3 – Educational television in schools and home.Melissa

V. Issue #4 – How skills taught through educational television have changed Alejandra

a.i.e. communication, social, reading, etc.

VI. Conclusion

Alejandra: here are my bibliographies, Jen

Schoolhouse Rock! 13 Nov. 2006. Wikipedia. 13 Nov. 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock%21>

Schoolhouse Rock! Internet Movie Database. 13 November 2006.

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069627/>.

Staff Reports on Children's Educational Television. 18 Jan. 2001. Federal Communications Commissions. 13 November 2006. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/policy/cetv.html

Children's Educational Television. 23 September 2006. Federal Communications Commissions. 13 November 2006. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/childtv.html

Cable Resources for Learning. 13 November 2006. Cable in the Classroom.

http://www.ciconline.org/default.htm

Children's Learning from Television. Fisch, Shalom M. 18 October 2005. 13 November 2006. http://www.br-online.de/jugend/izi/english/publication/televizion/18_2005_E/fisch.pdf

Melissa's Research

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Kozma, Richard B. “Learning With Media” Review of Educational Research Vol.61 No.4 (1991) : 179-211. JSTOR. University of Michigan < http://www.jstor.org/view/00346543/ap040286/04a00030/0>

Fisch, Shalom M. “What’s so “new” about “new media?”: Comparing effective features of children’s educational software, television, and magazines” Proceeding of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community (2004): 105-111. PORTAL. Maryland < http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1017847&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=3691885&CFTOKEN=57568839&ret=1#Fulltext >

Palmer, Edward L. Television & America’s Children: A Crisis of Neglect. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Buckingham, David. “Teletubbies and the Educational Imperative.” Small Screens: Television for Children. Ed. David Buckingham. New York, NY: Leicester University Press, 2002. 38-60

Crystal's Research

**I may not use all of these, but here they are. :)

Kline, Stephen. “The Making of Children’s Culture.” Out of the Garden: Toys and Children’s Culture in the Age of TV Marketing. Verso: 1993. p. 44-61.

“Children’s Educational Television.” Federal Communications Commission. 13 November 2006

<http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/childtv.html>

“Children and Television.” The Museum of Broadcast Communications. 13 November 2006

<http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/childrenand/childrenand.htm>

“Educational TV May Boost Intellectual Development.” Center for Media Literacy. 13 November 2006

<http://medialit.org/reading_room/article119.html>

Wartella, Ellen. “Electronic Childhood.” The University of Texas at Austin. 13 November 2006

<http://www.utexas.edu/opa/pubs/discovery/disc1996v14n3/disc-electronic.html>

Farhi, Paul. “Flunking the Ratings Test: CBS Dumps ‘Educational’ Children’s Shows.” Geocities/Washington Post. 13 November 2006

<http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/4567/wash.html>