Benefits of Computer to Children

Topic:
Computer gives benefits to children
Thesis statement:
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Parents should be aware of the benefits of using computers to their children because (1) develops strong ability to the children itself, (2) it enhances children’s academic and (3) provides golden opportunity for their future.

We are always looking for the magic bullet, something that will solve all our problems. And, today this magic bullet for education is technology. It will solve all our problems. It will increase academic skill, reduce dropout rates, and eliminate the racial divide in academic performance. In the era of globalization, we can see that the technology around us runs along with the time. The computer as one of the example of an advance technology that become the world phenomenon. It totally changes the thought of everyone’s mind to consider that computer is very useful and important in everyone’s daily life. From the Computer Hope website, it is stated that the word "computer" in 1613 was originally used to describe a human who carried out calculations or computations. It remained unchanged until the end of the 19th century when people began to realize machines never get tired and can perform calculations much faster and more accurately than any team of human computers ever could (www.computerhope.com). As we know, the computer is very convenient yet gives big advantage to the people. We are introduced by our parents and even our teachers that computer is applicable in searching information worldwide and some of the research done by Dr. Brent Conrad (2014) is a Clinical Psychologist for TechAddiction, 10% of children under eight years old use educational software and 6% use a computer for homework.

In 1993 the government of Canada adopted a new initiative, computers for schools (CFS). Surplus federal computers were distributed to