Annotated
Bibliography
Gopnik, Alison.
“What do babies think?” TED. July
2011. Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
In this video, Gopnik talks
about her research on children’s brains. She compares human babies to bird
babies and found some similarities. She finds that in both cases, even when
both human and birds are just babies, they pick up on their surroundings. If
they see their parents doing something they assume it is good and apply it to
their own lives. She also found that children pick up and learn complicated
matters, such as statistics, better than adults. Overall, she comes to a
conclusion that although people think babies and young children do not pay
attention, they are actually paying too much attention. They pick up on
everything whether we realize it or not. This was a great video for me to
watch. I had actually stumbled upon it a couple weeks ago when I was just
starting out, but I just had the opportunity to watch it in full today. It
doesn’t fit in with my original inquiry question exactly, but it confirms my
idea that children learn the most at an earlier age.
Kluger, Jeffrey, and Alice Park. "The Quest For A
Superkid." Time. 30 April 2001. Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
This
article focuses on how jumpstarting your children’s education will impact them
later on in life. Kluger and Park collaborate in this article to back up their
opinion that letting a child grow without added educational pressure is the
best method. They research the differences between kids back in the day (before
there were flashcards, intelligence games, parental pressure for a child
genius, and etc.) and kids now. They find that as children grow up, they are
smarter in the areas that their parents pinpointed. However, they are less able
to adapt to other learning styles and are less social. I found this article
incredibly helpful. I was struggling to narrow down my topic and this helped me
do so. It helped showed me a different path that I can take with my topic,
which is how early learning affects your child.
Kuhl, Patricia. “The
linguistic genius of babies.” TED. October 2010. Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
Like Gopnik, Kuhl researches how
early babies learn and how it effects them later on in life. She finds that
everyone is virtually a genius until they reach age seven. She focuses on how babies
learn language and finds that babies that are taught multiple languages at once
use “statistics” in their brain to separate the two. She finds that babies can
learn almost any amount of language while under their genius stage and it will
all stick. She also finds that babies need human interaction in order to learn
new languages. This video did not help me out as much as I hoped it would. It
was good information, but it was really similar to that of Gopnik’s so I did
not learn anything new from it.
Szalavitz, Maya. “Measure of a Mother’s Love: How Early Neglect
Derails Child Development.” Time. 24 May 2012. Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
In this
article, Szalavitz argues that early neglect hinders a child’s development. She
begins by talking about how young monkeys that are left alone at a young age
have trouble fending for themselves later on in life, while monkeys that are
nurtured turn out great. From this, she goes on to talk about research that she
did in orphanages. She found that the babies that were never nurtured when
young showed slow mental and physical growth, even though orphanage owners
denied it. I originally looked into this article because I wanted to look at my
research topic from a different perspective. I have been looking into how
intelligent children fare later in life, so I thought it would be helpful to
see how neglected kids did as well. I am not sure if this article helped me in
terms of my essay, but it was an interesting read.
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