Enhancing Parent–Child Interaction to Enhance Learning with Television

Abstract

This paper involves creating a system that provides parents .with tools and information to help chidden learn from television. Children who converse with their parents during television viewing are better able to evaluate and make sense of content. This research describes a system, called the parent trap, which sends messages to model dialogues that promote more fragment and longer conversations, which include inquiry and explanation. This paper suggests ways television shows can be authorized with additional, digital information to help parents learn strategies for conversing with their children. Introduction Television delivers vast and varied amounts of information by broadcasting images, audio, and text (on-screen or through closed captioning). Televisions are found in over 98% of households across the nation. However, television is more ntethannt just a mechanism for delivery co and information; it is a social mechanism.