Written by Cherylin 2022 Cohort
Usually, people perceive everything in the world through their five senses consisting of touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight. Visual communication tends to be more effective than text-based communication for humans to learn something, especially for children. They can effectively learn by seeing colours, visuals, animation, and things around them. Accordingly, watching animated cartoons can positively affect children’s mental and cognitive development. Here are three benefits.
1. They enhance creativity
Children are naturally creative, but this skill may increase as they grow up every day. Animation can help them enhance this skill as there are many colourful scenes, characters, stories, and activities that do not exist in real life. For instance, they can think about magic dragons, pretend to be witches, draw their favourite characters to come up with their own stories, or even create imaginary friends after watching animated fairytales.
2. They teach life lessons
A good children’s story always offers the audience some life lessons or valuable morals. Children can learn from the animated deck and adapt it in real life. Some stories leave messages about sharing between friends, the importance of teamwork and cooperation, developing a positive self-image, or even constructive ways of resolving conflict.
3. They share knowledge One thing that technology can ideally benefit children is giving them some knowledge and information. In animation, children can travel to different times and places, see different types of animals, discover another country, understand the galaxy, and experience new situations they cannot access in their daily lives. For example, when children watch a story that turns back time to the Jurassic period, they can learn about the different types of dinosaurs and understand that dinosaurs used to exist in the real world. Still, they went extinct about 65 million years ago.