Addiction to Technology: Alienation among Children and Its Impact on Their Further Development as Individuals In a computer-driven society, technology is one of the main tools for shaping individuals’ personalities. Children are exposed to different kinds of technology and become literate to use it without big difficulties. They can handle almost any kind of gadgets. However, the question is whether this is good or bad for their further development as individuals. Unrestricted use of TV sets and computer games, game consoles and online networking games, along with Internet chat rooms, mobile phones and other kinds of technological devices can make children addicted to technology and socially alienated.
Kids still need to be limited on how often they are using the technology. Exposure to technology isn’t all bad, yet there are numerous negative effects of technology on children. Many parents face the complex decision of the right age of having a cellphone. With advertisements of cellphones showing their main characters as teenagers and preteens, the peer pressure on our kids today is overwhelming. Most teens have their first cellphone by freshmen year of high school, which seems acceptable.
It is not uncommon for children to carry laptops or similar devices in their backpacks, but what happens to the children whose families simply cannot afford this luxury, which seems to becoming a necessity. With the advancements in technology, and the growing use of computers in schools, under privileged American children are suffering more and more from the digital divide. “Pencil to paper may soon be a thing of the past for students,” (Canan, 2011). Students across the country are becoming more and more dependent upon computers and the internet to get their school work done. Not too many years ago, it was not uncommon to see children turning in hand written assignments, but in today’s society it seems having computer access both at school and at home is a necessity.
Growing up online produced and directed by Rachel Dretzing discuss the disadvantages and the advantages of children’s. Having the open access to internet has caused some problems at home, school, social media as well as bulling. I believe this has a lot to do in the way that we teach our children’s how to be responsible while on the internet and the precautions that they should have. As a mentioned before this has brought different results on people and I will explain in more detail. Internet at home has help children’s to have a completely different personality while using the internet.
The generation gap is the basis for the video “Growing up Online.” In this video children and adults were asked to give their opinions about the internet. Most adults specifically parents feared for the safety of their children from internet predators and cyberbullies. The children weren’t as concerned about that kind of stuff though, in fact they felt as if the internet was a wonderful use for school and socializing. The producers noticed something, that maybe the parents and the children felt but, didn’t realize. They noticed something called a generation gap.
A major reason for this is that studies show that, for a young child, “Part of the increase in aggressive behavior is linked to the amount of time children are allowed to play video games. In one study by Walsh (2000), a majority of teens admitted that their parents do not impose a time limit on the number of hours they are allowed to play video games” (A. Norcia). Social skills are a very important part of growing up. Most behavioral problems can happen from having a lack or deficiency in social skill, which may lead to very high level of anxiety and anger that will have a negative effect on social skills. So by being in a social environment will help promote social skills.
I researched and found many different adaptations for the visually impaired that I could introduce and use in my classroom. The Internet can offer children developmentally appropriate learning opportunities but if the Internet is not used effectively, it will not benefit the students. There are numerous
The main reason for this study was because the authors were interested in seeing if there was a link between child behavioral problems such as, hyperactivity and inattention, and playing video games or if other factors played a bigger role in child behavioral problems. The researchers gathered 788 parents of preschool children between the ages of two and five; while also, gathering 391 parents of children between the ages of six and eight and separated them into four different groups. Low risk preschoolers, high risk preschools, low risk school-age children, high risk school-age children, these groups were determined by cumulating the risk and parenting styles of each of the children and concluded that factors such as home environment, quality of parent-child relationship, played a bigger role in a child’s behavior problems than video games. However, they did discover that video game exposure was a good way to predict if a low-risk preschooler would have higher levels of hyperactivity, in their study one out of every four had this behavioral problem, although they did not find this to be the case with any other kind of student or behavioral problems. This is important because children behavioral problems have been studied in detail and researchers have tried to narrow down what plays into them and how to predict what type of children will have them; likewise, this study showed that both nonviolent and violent video games, do not play into a massive number of children’s behavioral problems.
Playing a very important role in education. It is part of everyday life having its negative and positive influences as most people come across it through their lives.However,Tecnology has mostly affected teenagers and young adults as they are exposed to the most technology in this generation, from iPods’ to smart phones, most teenagers own a Smartphone spending unnecessary amount of money on them. Young minds develop much more quickly when they are surrounded by technology, knowing more than they should know at their age .It makes them lazier and children become independent at a young age, spending more time on their gadgets than they spend with family and friends. These day 10 year olds have facebook and twitter when these sites are designed for an older group category. Technology cuts you off personal interactions and new experiences.
(Project RED, 2010) The real issue is that some schools/ district restrict students from using technology in school to support their education. It is stated that schools have difficulty keeping up with new technology so they are either behind and have a hard time catching up or they just do not update their technology restricting students from necessary resources. (Education Weekly, 2011) Some forms of learning that students found benefitting them at home as well as in school involving technology is online learning. Some surveys and research has been done that proves that online learning or blending learning elaborates students’ learning and develops their skill. Along with e-learning falls a category called social networking which has increasingly caught the attention of a lot of school board officials.