Ravi Kant

Creativity and Television: a Descriptive Survey Ravi Kant

The ability to be creative is an important factor in the development of a young child?s mind. By sitting down and watching TV for a couple hours, the child is entertained but is also not thinking. Information in spoon fed to them, so when it comes time to read a book in school, some can have a hard time grasping ideas. They are so used to having images, flash before them to provide understanding, they have trouble moving their eyes side to side together the information for themselves. With the television in front them, supplying amusement they may never stop to think that putting a puzzle together or reading a book could also be fun. They could actually become dependent on this one source of fantasy and never bother to create their own. A burning question raise here that TV influence the creativity of student? Creativity of student gets affected by matter that they watch on TV. It is the belief of the author that television is a significant force in the development of creativity and particularly so for students, who are in a formative stage of creative development.