Sesame Street effect discusses the effect of Sesame Street on a child going to start preschool. Alia Wong is an associate author at The Atlantic she mainly covers education. Wong previously wrote for Honolulu Civil Beat. Wong published "The Effect of Sesame Street" in June of 2015. In this article Wong argues the idea of Sesame Street and how is helps children become more successful in the education system. The article brings up different questions and also answers those questions. For example, is television better than going to preschool? Reading this article about Sesame Street really opens up the mind about how much a child's television show can really effect that aspect of learn in an early age. Wong discusses how much Sesame Street
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I personally do not have a connection to Sesame Street I am the youngest in my whole family and do not have any nieces or nephews so I have not been around the children shows in a wile, I have not see the progress any show has made to this point. Even when I was little I was not watching television I was outside playing with friends. When I would watch television it was Dora the Explora or Sponge Bob Square Pants. Knowing my mom wanted me to watch something more educational. Never watching Sesame Street when I was little got me interested in reading this article because I did not have any idea that Sesame Street could be a successful educational television show. Sparking my interest I want to know more about Sesame Street so I wanted to see a Sesame Street episode so I had an idea about how it was staged and how the episodes where presented to draw a child's attention so, I looked some episodes up just to see what it was all about. Now I understand how it is a successful show the way the show gets the children's attention also how it gets children to remember the ABC's and other basic information children learn in preschool based on the colors and songs that are connected to the letters or what they are trying to get across. Wong argues that "human to human interaction have a tremendous impact on the child's life." But Sesame Street could server as a worthy
I personally do not have a connection to Sesame Street I am the youngest in my whole family and do not have any nieces or nephews so I have not been around the children shows in a wile, I have not see the progress any show has made to this point. Even when I was little I was not watching television I was outside playing with friends. When I would watch television it was Dora the Explora or Sponge Bob Square Pants. Knowing my mom wanted me to watch something more educational. Never watching Sesame Street when I was little got me interested in reading this article because I did not have any idea that Sesame Street could be a successful educational television show. Sparking my interest I want to know more about Sesame Street so I wanted to see a Sesame Street episode so I had an idea about how it was staged and how the episodes where presented to draw a child's attention so, I looked some episodes up just to see what it was all about. Now I understand how it is a successful show the way the show gets the children's attention also how it gets children to remember the ABC's and other basic information children learn in preschool based on the colors and songs that are connected to the letters or what they are trying to get across. Wong argues that "human to human interaction have a tremendous impact on the child's life." But Sesame Street could server as a worthy