Research

Over the past few lessons me and my classmate have been researching the background of our topic "Are cartoons a bad influence on children?"
In my first lesson i researched on the Internet for reports by well known professors of psychology and behaviour. I found that using doing this research have proved to be helpful and gain a better understanding of the subject.

In the next couple of lessons me and my classmate Charlie researched in books from some of the people I found on the Internet during my own personal research. Some of the books that we have read are: 'Television is Good for your Kids' by Dr. Marie Messenger Davies, 'Children and Television' by Bob Hodge & David Tripp and 'Understanding television' by Andrew Goodwin & Garry Whannel. These books have proven to be very useful in our research as they include statistics and quotes from interesting and reliable sources.
From these books we both gained useful facts such as:
"Children spend up to 18,000 hours watching cartoons up to the age of 18, that's as many hours spent behind a school desk."
Such facts as these will be helpful for the narration of our final documentary in the hope to shock and inform the audience.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html