Comments on: 40 Years of Sesame Street as an Educator? http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/sesame-street-as-an-educator/ From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/sesame-street-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-2370 Amy Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:44:24 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1646#comment-2370 I'd never seen the Cookiegate skit, that was great! Re parents having the time/energy/interest to watch educational programming: This is just anecdotal, but I do remember watching the Sesame Street skit "Letter B" when I was little, and my mom excitedly running out of the kitchen to watch with me because she loved the Beatles when she was younger. I’d never seen the Cookiegate skit, that was great!

Re parents having the time/energy/interest to watch educational programming: This is just anecdotal, but I do remember watching the Sesame Street skit “Letter B” when I was little, and my mom excitedly running out of the kitchen to watch with me because she loved the Beatles when she was younger.

]]> By: Tom Grosh http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/sesame-street-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-2117 Tom Grosh Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:58:39 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1646#comment-2117 Thank-you Amy! Great material. BTW, last night I saw a "News Hour" reflection/conversion on Sesame Street, http://pbs.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/newshour/rss/media/2009/11/10/20091110_sesame.mp3 ... This included a snippet of the "Sesame Street Special Report - Cookiegate," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfzCEG8R5I, which exemplifies the attempt to engage the parental audience with Sesame Street characters. But how many parents have the time/energy/interest to watch and discuss educational programming with their kids? Yes, Blue’s Clue’s took the revolutionary Sesame Street by storm. How will the new and improved Sesame Street compete with a growing field of contenders? Thank-you Amy! Great material.

BTW, last night I saw a “News Hour” reflection/conversion on Sesame Street, http://pbs.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/newshour/rss/media/2009/11/10/20091110_sesame.mp3 … This included a snippet of the “Sesame Street Special Report – Cookiegate,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfzCEG8R5I, which exemplifies the attempt to engage the parental audience with Sesame Street characters. But how many parents have the time/energy/interest to watch and discuss educational programming with their kids? Yes, Blue’s Clue’s took the revolutionary Sesame Street by storm. How will the new and improved Sesame Street compete with a growing field of contenders?

]]> By: Amy http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/sesame-street-as-an-educator/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 Amy Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:46:48 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1646#comment-2116 For extra credit reading (it's so rare that I get to suggest such a thing for Emerging Scholars!) - Malcolm Gladwell has an excellent chapter comparing Blue's Clue's to Sesame Street in his book "The Tipping Point." (The whole of Tipping Point is an excellent read, really.) The chapter addresses the first couple questions you pose, by investigating the "stickiness," or how much the kids actually remember from the programs. Google Books it seems has excerpts from the chapter online. Page 99-102 touch on how revolutionary the idea of Sesame Street was. Page 103-109 are about experiments investigating what kids get out of Sesame Street. Page 110 starts the discussion on Blue's Clues. http://books.google.com/books?id=MMlxzMNkE_0C&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=blue%27s+clue%27s+sesame+street+malcolm+gladwell&source=bl&ots=hg1COHlFE5&sig=-KDC8Hw6JdSLw8mZmL_6GP_zOMQ&hl=en&ei=U9r6SoHwONCkngfv1P2IDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false For extra credit reading (it’s so rare that I get to suggest such a thing for Emerging Scholars!) – Malcolm Gladwell has an excellent chapter comparing Blue’s Clue’s to Sesame Street in his book “The Tipping Point.” (The whole of Tipping Point is an excellent read, really.) The chapter addresses the first couple questions you pose, by investigating the “stickiness,” or how much the kids actually remember from the programs.

Google Books it seems has excerpts from the chapter online. Page 99-102 touch on how revolutionary the idea of Sesame Street was. Page 103-109 are about experiments investigating what kids get out of Sesame Street. Page 110 starts the discussion on Blue’s Clues. http://books.google.com/books?id=MMlxzMNkE_0C&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=blue%27s+clue%27s+sesame+street+malcolm+gladwell&source=bl&ots=hg1COHlFE5&sig=-KDC8Hw6JdSLw8mZmL_6GP_zOMQ&hl=en&ei=U9r6SoHwONCkngfv1P2IDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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