Barney Vs. Sesame Street :: essays research papers

Barney Vs. sesame StreetSesame Street and Barney The Dinosaur are two popular educational shows forchildren. Are they really teaching kids with the in effect(p) techniques? Are theyteaching kids anything at all? Its a battle to see which is better Barney orSesame Street.Sesame Street and Barney have totally antithetic teaching techniques.Sesame Street captivates the audience with high joltage and fast scenes. Thechild barely understands what is going on and when they understand that scene,its over and the next scene is intimately done. The child does not learn wellunder these circumstances. Barney does not have the same JPM as Sesame Streetbut it still attracts the audiences attention. The show is slow and moreunderstandable than Sesame Street.     Barney focuses on one topic for every show. The one that I watched,entitled "Up We Go", was most flying. You learn about kites, birds, planes andmore. You get more out of the show than if it was about many topics like SesameStreet. The one we saw had many topics like eating healthy, dental hygiene, the airdrome and more. The child can have an overload of ideas for one day and getall mixed up.     Both Barney and Sesame Street have songs in them. I found that Barneyhad many more songs than Sesame Street. The songs are used as jolts and theywork well in getting the attention of the child. I found that the Barney songswere such(prenominal) catchier than the Sesame Street songs. They were slower, and otherthan the dancing, there was not much else happening. On Sesame Street, thebackground was changing, things were flying and colors were jumping. Theattention was not put on the song by the kids, it was put on the actions on thescreen.     Barney, like Sesame Park, showed minimal biases regarding sex and race.The cast consisted of three boys and three girls. One boy was disenable but wasas able as the other kids. The races on the show were mixed. T hey consisted ofa Latino boy, a Chinese girl, an African-American girl and more. On SesameStreet there was less of a mix of races. They just had the primary races of theUnited States like African-Americans and Latinos.While watching Barney, I noticed that a of import focus was imagination and