Within this research, we can start to learn about the potential for infants and toddlers to learn from videos. The results are not very encouraging. In one example, children twelve, fifteen, and eighteen months old were shown either a live person or a person on TV demonstrating some actions with puppets.1 The researchers evaluated whether the children could repeat the action either in the moment or twenty-four hours later. In all three age groups, when kids watched an actual person doing the action, some of them were able to replicate it a day later. The video demonstration was much less
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