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Andrew Osbourne

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

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  • "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

Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds - New Yo... - 0 views

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  • As e-mail messages, text messages and social network postings become nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers, the informality of electronic communications is seeping into their schoolwork, a new study says. Nearly two-thirds of 700 students surveyed said their e-communication style sometimes bled into school assignments, according to the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, in partnership with the College Board’s National Commission on Writing. About half said they sometimes omitted proper punctuation and capitalization in schoolwork. A quarter said they had used emoticons like smiley faces. About a third said they had used text shortcuts like “LOL” for “laugh out loud.”
  • When e-mail shorthand — or for that matter, slang — appears in academic assignments, Professor Sterling said, it is an opportunity for teachers to explain that while such usages are acceptable in some contexts, they do not belong in schoolwork. And as the English language evolves, he said, some e-mail conventions, like starting sentences without a capital letter, may well become accepted practice.
Victor Salinas

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    • Victor Salinas
      Victor Salinas on 13 Feb 14
       
      Carr's argument is scientific rather than moral. The internet, he argues, has been "tinkering" with our brains. It is eroding our ability to concentrate and contemplate intellectually, the mental requisites that allow us to read and digest books. Instead of readers, the digital revolution is transforming all of us into skimmers - highly skilled at mentally jumping from hypertext to hypertext link, but increasingly unable to digest long or complex textual information, particularly in book form. Quoting the Tufts University developmental psychologist and leading authority on the act of reading, Maryanne Wolf, Carr reminds us we are not only "what we read" but also "how we read".
    • Victor Salinas
      Victor Salinas on 13 Feb 14
       
      Thus, today's skimming generation is becoming more mentally superficial, unable to think in anything beyond the intellectually impoverishing currency of instant messages, emails, and short web posts. The historical consequences of Carr's observations are deeply worrying. In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, the Boston Globe columnist Maggie Jackson suggests that the increasingly low attention span and poor cognitive skills of today's multi - tasking, digitally addicted kids threatens to return civilisation to another dark age, one of what she calls "shadows and fears".
    • Victor Salinas
      Victor Salinas on 13 Feb 14
       
      Through the continual use of digital products, specifically the internet, our brains are starting to work differently. "It is eroding our ability to concentrate and contemplate intellectually, the mental requisites that allow us to read and digest books" (Andrew keen). Society has gotten so accustomed to information instantaneously that formal eduction is expected in the same fashion. Students are becoming less dependent on reading books and more dependent on browsing the internet.
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