Podcast Imagination
February 20, 2005I know when I was younger I didn’t read too many books, although I was joined the local library but I mainly took out ‘make and do’ books which gave me a vivid imagination to create wonderful items that appeared in the books. I do regret not reading that many books when I look back on my childhood. I remember back to when I used to go to speech therapy because I couldn’t pronounce simple words like coat properly.
During one session she asked me if I read many books, I was on the spot and couldn’t think of any recent ones that I had read. The Famous Five flew out of my mouth, she then asked me to name out the leading characters. They could have been Tom, Dick and Harry for all I knew. I remember naming out common names like John, Mary and Seamus, thankfully she said them out soon afterwards and I left with my head down ashamed of lying to her.
Nowadays many more children are missing out on a good read because of the time they spend in front of the Television. Thankfully books like Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events are grabbing children away from the TV and into their own world of imagination.
Over the past year there has been a massive increase with children having MP3 players particularly an iPod, many of which who own them are between 10 and 12 years old.
What would be great to see happen is for a parents council of a particular school getting together with parents of pupils and try to get children listening to spoken content instead of music all the time. The parents could get together and decide upon a children’s book and read it aloud while recording. Each adult is given a character to read out and one person acts as the narrator. Once completed the children can download it to their MP3 player and listen to the finished piece either with their friends or alone. Allowing them to use their imagination while they listen to the content.
