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Andrew Osbourne

The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 0 views

  • What are some of the side effects of technology?
  • A limited use of gadgets can be quite useful for children as it will allow them to be up to date with the current technology. However, the overuse of these advancements can really hamper or even damage their development in the personal growth, communication and educational department.
  • These days, children indulge themselves in internet, games or texting. These activities have affected their psyche negatively, consequently leading to increased frustration. Now they get frustrated whenever they are asked to do anything while playing games or using internet. For instance, when their parents ask them to take the trash out, they get furious instantly. This behavior has shattered many parent-children relationships.
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  • According to studies, tolerance in children is vanishing quite increasingly due to the improper use of technology. For example, children get frustrated quickly when they surf internet and the page they want to view takes time to load.
  • Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously.
  • children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
  • Now, more and more people are interacting with others through different platforms like apps, role-playing online games, social networks, etc. This advancement has hampered the physical interaction skills of many children. Due to that they don’t know how to interact with others when they meet them in-person or what gesture they should carry.
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Andrew Osbourne

How texting and social media affect our children? - 0 views

  • "Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."-Socrates
  • Fifty-four percent of teens send text messages, and one third of teens send more than 100 text messages per day. One third talk face-to-face with friends, around the same percentage that talk on cell phones (38 percent) and land lines (30 percent). Twenty-four percent communicate with friends via instant messages. Twenty-five percent contact friends via social networking sites. Eleven percent use e-mail.
  • Kids who see more TV learn to read later and slower.
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  • Increased exposure to violence has been proven to result in: More aggressive behavior More aggressive thoughts More angry feelings Less empathy Fewer helping behaviors Increases in fear
  • Even when kids are watching "family friendly" shows like "Sponge Bob," there is an average 25 acts of violence per TV-viewing session.
  • Participation for long periods of time can have a negative effect on basic cognitive processes. Overuse can have a negative impact on attention skills. The content of the information can have an effect on emotions and behavior.
  • kids aren't likely to see friends face-to-face, or even get phone calls
  • But many teens get text messages
  • Some teens send and receive hundreds of texts after 11 p.m.
  • More time on social media means less time on other activities, including academics.
  • BullyingBullying peaks during the middle school years, and online bullying carries its own set of heightened risks and considerations. Kids tend to be more likely to engage in bullying over the Web because it's harder to have empathy for your victim when you're not face-to-face with him or her. In online bullying, there is generally no audience who might rein in a bully by saying, "Hey, lay off." Others aren't aware of the bullying comment or action until after it has been posted for all to see. Adults can't overhear or witness what's happening when the perpetrator is alone in his or her room in front of a computer.
Laura Covington

Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
  • "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen.
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  • Greenfield believes much of this change is related to our increased use of technology, as well as other factors, including increased levels of formal education, improved nutrition, smaller families and increased societal complexity. The Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles, has received federal funding from the National Science Foundation.
  • The above story is based on materials provided by University of California - Los Angeles
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    Technology has brought about a profound negative effect on how well we learn today. The increase of visual media has caused many skills to be lost. This article is based on studies and research done by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA. Greenfield is a distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
Laura Covington

Cris Rowan: The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child - 0 views

  • Children of the past moved... a lot, and their sensory world was nature based and simple.
  • Today's families are different. Technology's impact on the 21st century family is fracturing its very foundation, and causing a disintegration of core values that long ago were the fabric that held families together. Juggling school, work, home, and community lives, parents now rely heavily on communication, information, and transportation technology to make their lives faster and more efficient. Entertainment technology (TV, Internet, video games, iPads, cell phones) has advanced so rapidly, that families have scarcely noticed the significant impact and changes to their family structure and lifestyles. A 2010 Kaiser Foundation study showed that elementary aged children use on average 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, 75 percent of these children have TV's in their bedrooms, and 50 percent of North American homes have the TV on all day. Gone is dining room table conversation, replaced by the "big screen" and take out.
  • Children now rely on technology for the majority of their play, grossly limiting challenges to their creativity and imaginations, as well as limiting necessary challenges to their bodies to achieve optimal sensory and motor development. Sedentary bodies bombarded with chaotic sensory stimulation are resulting in delays in attaining child developmental milestones, with subsequent negative impact on basic foundation skills for achieving literacy. Hard-wired for high speed, today's young are entering school struggling with self regulation and attention skills necessary for learning, eventually becoming significant behavior management problems for teachers in the classroom.
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  • So what is the impact of technology on the developing child? Children's developing sensory, motor, and attachment systems have biologically not evolved to accommodate this sedentary, yet frenzied and chaotic nature of today's technology. The impact of rapidly advancing technology on the developing child has seen an increase of physical, psychological and behavior disorders that the health and education systems are just beginning to detect, much less understand
  • Four critical factors necessary to achieve healthy child development are movement, touch, human connection, and exposure to nature. These types of sensory inputs ensure normal development of posture, bilateral coordination, optimal arousal states and self-regulation necessary for achieving foundation skills for eventual school entry. Young children require 2-3 hours per day of active rough and tumble play to achieve adequate sensory stimulation to their vestibular, proprioceptive and tactile systems. Tactile stimulation received through touching, hugging and play is critical for the development of praxis, or planned movement patterns. Touch also activates the parasympathetic system lowering cortisol, adrenalin and anxiety. Nature and "green space" has not only a calming influence on children, but also is attention restorative and promotes learning.
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    A study done in 2010, by The Kaiser Foundation shows how drastically every facet of our lives, especially our children's lives, have changed and been negatively impacted, because of the constant, and continual up-rise of the use of technology. The increase of time spent watching television, for instance, has limited physical activity, leaving us sedentary a great deal of that time. The "chaotic sensory stimulation" that 21st century technology creates, conflicts with the sedentary state, and as a result, there are "delays in attaining child developmental milestones, with subsequent negative impact on basic foundation skills for achieving literacy. Hard-wired for high speed, today's young are entering school struggling with self regulation and attention skills necessary for learning, eventually becoming significant behavior management problems for teachers in the classroom."
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