Rabu, 05 Oktober 2011

Film Anak : Detektif Conan


Detektif Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan?) adalah sebuah serial manga detektif yang ditulis dan digambar oleh Gōshō Aoyama. Sejak tahun 1994 cerita ini dipublikasikan pada majalah Mingguan Shōnen Sunday yang terbit di Jepang. Serial ini menceritakan tentang Shinichi Kudo, seorang detektif sekolah menengah atas, yang tubuhnya mengecil akibat sebuah racun.
Detektif Conan telah diterbitkan secara terus menerus di majalah antologi manga Mingguan Shōnen Sunday sejak tahun 1994 dan telah dikumpulkan dalam 70 volume tankōbon sampai dengan November 2010. Dalam versi bahasa Indonesia, Detektif Conan diterbitkan oleh Elex Media Komputindo yang telah menerbitkan hingga volume 63 sampai dengan Agustus 2011.[1][2]
Cerita ini kemudian diadaptasi dalam serial animasi TV yang diproduksi oleh TMS Entertainment dan Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Jepang, dan masih ditayangkan hingga saat ini. Selain serial TV, cerita tentang tokoh detektif ini juga diterbitkan dalam bentuk animasi video asli (OVA), drama TV, spesial TV, film tuturan, permainan video, dan berbagai bentuk barang yang berkaitan dengan tokoh Detektif Conan.
Viz Media melisensikan serial manga ini untuk publikasi berbahasa Inggris di Amerika Utara, sedangkan Funimation Entertainment melisensikan serial anime ini untuk daerah penyiaran di Amerika Utara.[3] Kedua adaptasi bahasa Inggris tersebut menggunakan judul Case Closed dan nama karakter di dalamnya diganti untuk menghindari masalah hak cipta terhadap nama

Look out! Watching Cartoons Deplete Memory Toddlers


Quickly turned out to watch cartoons often compromising the ability of children to concentrate and solve puzzles based on logic. Worse, a study said this practice can also damage their short-term memory.
Research conducted by scientists from the University of Virginia in the USA involves 64 children who were randomly divided into three groups.
One group was specifically asked to watch nine minutes of the popular cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, where scene changes occur on average every 11 seconds.
Another group watched educational cartoons with scenes changing on average every 34 seconds, while the last group allowed to draw.
After that the children were then asked to complete various tests. The first, the test puzzles, and a second test is a test to follow the instructions.
The result, seen groups of children who previously were asked to watch cartoons slower completing various tests, when compared with the group who watched cartoons are slow and the group draw.
“Experiments show the children showed a worse performance after seeing the cartoons. There are even finding supported other studies that found long-term effects of these negative facts,” concludes one researcher Dr. Angeline Lillard.

Jumat, 18 Maret 2011

Child Psychology Early Years



Study of children in their early years is called developmental psychology and this can occur starting from the early years top much later in life. Child psychology in the development cycle can cover phases of infancy to adolescent years.
It includes the study of several key facets like motor skills, problem solving capabilities, social behavioral skills, language development, emotional development and confidence.
Children in their developmental years are forming a strong identity and also their own concepts on life and people. In the initial years of development, a bigger emphasis is laid upon the physical and motor skills of the child. Below the age of 6 children are not completely developed emotionally and it is only their starting years for emotional development. The most important developmental aspects revolve around the cognitive, social and motor skills.
Motor skills in children can be further divides into visual motor skills and also the relation ship between the visual motor skills and the limbs motor skills. A child should be able to show well coordinated movements of hands, legs and eyes. They are even gauged upon their athletic abilities.  A child who shows additional aggression and also suffers from depression can be evaluated through child psychology and a lot of findings are based on their gross motor skills.
There has been a lot of achievement in the field of child psychology and experts believe that they can help children to a greater magnitude if the problems are identified early in life. Observation of behavior pattern and comparing the child to the development chart is of utmost important in a child’s growing up years.