So all those years watching Sesame Street, The Electric Company and Reading Rainbow was inhibiting my ability to learn??
Wow, no wonder it took me so long to get my degree. Researchers at Ohio State University have found that people, when taught using simple abstract symbols (link no longer available; article was previously found at http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/absconc.htm) learned and retained more than if they were taught using 'concrete' examples.
The researchers say that kids don't learn very well from children's books and television programs which 'personify' letters and words and college students also do not learn as well from 3-D images that "move dramaically across a screen."
So don't sit your kids in front of Barney! They won't learn a thing! (But I think we already knew that.)
Learning From Barney, Not So Good.
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