Sunday, October 24, 2010
Educational Scams?
I've been sick this week and took time this weekend to catch up on some rest. I wasn't able to sleep last night and all that was on TV were terrible infomercials. I started listening to one and it was called "My Baby Can Read". The entire infomercial was about a program designed for baby's giving them the skills required to read and there were examples of baby's ranging from a few months old to 3 years and so on reading words, books, and answering questions. I immediately was interested and became wondering about what the program is consisted of. Is this program good for children at such a young age? Does it effect their ability to learn phonetics and the way we teach children to read later in life? Are they learning all of these words as sight words? Will they be able to decode and read other words just as easily? These are all questions that came to my head and ultimately; is this a scam? This seemed to be an interesting experience I thought I would share and ask if you have seen this or another educational program or game that may be a scam or not do what it is advertised to do.
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hey ashley, i have seen this. i think that it is a scam. i do not think kids espically at a few month can remember this. i think it defeats what we learn in school aboout infants not having the understanding of somethings. take for ex. when you play peek-a-doo with a infant. when you cover your eyes the child now thinks your gone. i dont think i child can remember such a thing. i dont think their brains are devlope enough at these ages. i have a hardtime asking my number to count what number i have on my hand and hes only 4 years of age
ReplyDeleteHi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteWow. I've never heard of this one. Sounds a bit scarry. I kind of agree with Bruce in terms of his wariness of the program.
Mickey