Correspondent Mª Lluïsa Caparrós
TEDtalks
- 8/11/2017 running time 11’51’’
TASK1. Summarise a TEdtalk in 300 words.
TASK2. Observe 15 chunks at the script, and write them down
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1. Three fears about screen time for kids
—and why they’re not true
In her speech at TEDtalk, DeWitt considers the topic of how adults see phones as a necessity in their modern lives but then they get as much worried as nervous about this fact when a three year-old takes one. In her talk she tries to persuade parents on shifting their fears to focus on the opportunities that phones can have for children.
DeWitt convincingly states in a three-pronged approach those common fears that parents experience when they give a child a phone. Firstly, she adresses the common notion of ‘screens are passive’ and, how they keep children from getting up and moving. She truly believes that educational games for children promote physical activity due to their positive interaction and intrinsic motivation for learning. Secondly, DeWitt discusses the run-of the mill assertion that ‘playing games on screens it´s just a waste of time’. Everybody admits to playing games as a great stimulus to children’s brains and, that game-based learning could be useful when evaluating children cognitive development. She also promotes that playing games could help reducing test taking anxiety. Thirdly, she states that parents think that ‘these screens are isolating [me] from my children’. She clarifies that as a parent, she thoroughly understands the feeling of anxiety and a sense of guilt when giving a tablet to her child while preparing dinner; although, she firmly believes that this time apart from each other can be a great benefit for parents find out about their children’s interests and can connect with them in a better way.
To conclude, DeWitt develops her views that when we adults focus on fears we forget that children live in the same world as them as both life and technology should go along no matter what. Therefore, she says, adults should fixate on the positive impact that these tools can have on children and see their potential for learning.
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2. A handful of Chunks with Use
of English
The phone that
is most likely to be
It´s going to
disrupt childhood
Can challenge
this attitude
Can get
[kids] up and moving
Have the power
to tell us more about
Have the power
to prompt
An unlikely
champion for this cause
Harnessing the power of
technology
The debate was raging about
See [his] influence across the media landscape
That is always within arm’s reach
The long-running-host
of
More real
life-conversations
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