Frankfurt Zukunftsrat and ICCA: Children spend more time watching TV and PC as in school
He put this firmly:
- The brain's internal connections change with use. The brain is a piece of hardware that adapts to the software (life experience).
- Children learn through personal, interactive contact that appeals to all of their senses.
- Baby DVDs (passive learning) negatively affect children's brain development.
- A child's IQ can be raised by an average of 15 points with the right learning conditions.
- Children spend more time in front of the television and computer than at school.
Prof. Dr. dr In this context, Spitzer cited an average of 5,5 hours a day that a child in Germany spends in front of the television or computer, in contrast to just 4 hours at school. He therefore called on parents to pay more attention to the educational value of the media for their children.
In the subsequent comments and panel discussion, Prof. Dr. medical Jochen HH Ehrich (Hannover Medical School):
- A child-friendly healthcare system must be created across Europe.
- Health systems need to be unified and citizens' trust in them restored.
- Companies have a special socio-political responsibility because they can create attractive conditions for family planning and thus the future of our society through company kindergartens.
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, called for children to be more involved in shaping the future. She emphasized: "We have to overcome the differences between the generations and not play the generations off against each other".
The founder and chairman of the Frankfurt Future Council and Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs, Prof. Dr. Manfred Pohl emphasized the importance of children for the future in his own way. He said: "The children who are born today or who are 10 years old will spend most of their lives in the second half of the 21st century and will see the transition into the 22nd century."
Source: Frankfurt [ Frankfurt Future Council ]
