The optimal column to showcase this strategy is in "Parents: Save A Kid Brain - Get Off Your Phones!" Since the audience for this piece is parents of small children, one of the most effective strategies to persuade them is to logically show how their current actions may have a bad influence on their children. In this piece, Cepeda does just that to convince readers that their technology addiction is more serious than they thought by bringing in scientific and psychological research. By way of illustration, she includes two separate studies and discusses their results that technology negatively impacts child development and how these studies apply to the lives of the readers. Citing two separate studies allows Cepeda to rely more on the facts persuading her readers than her own opinions.
In an effort to persuade her audience that there are benefits to early exposure to technology, Eliana Dockterman builds her argument in her article, “The Digital Parent Trap”. Dockterman begins building her credibility with reputable sources, using logos appeal by statistics, and successfully employing opposing views to counter argue to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of her argument. By citing reputable sources such as school principals and an anthropologist from University of California at Irvine, Dockterman effective use of ethos strengthens the credibility of her article. Arguing that early exposure to technology is beneficial, it is only logical that Dockterman include a quote from “Shawn Jackson, principal of Spencer Tech”.
Sam Ergastolo HWOC- Period 5 9/20/16 Mrs. Sherwin Technology and Children The fact that the children killed their parents in “The Veldt” suggests that technology is too advanced and should not be exposed to children. To start off, technology should not be exposed to children because it makes them addicted to it.
In her essay, Eliana Dockterman attempts to craft a new understanding of the role of technology in early learning, in an effort to persuade parents still hesitant to embrace the change. Dockterman uses facts, diction, and appeals to reason to convince her audience that early exposure to technology is beneficial. Beginning with the counter argument, Dockterman relates to the readers the differing views of technology. Firstly, she cites the great amount of American children and teenagers who regularly use technology - between 27 and 52 percent - implicitly stating that eliminating technology in any meaningful way is wholly unreasonable. She then juxtaposes the views of American school districts, 80 percent of which plan on incorporating tablets into the curriculum, with
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Turkle states that, “the mere presence of a phone on a table between them (two people) or in the periphery of their vision changes both what they talk about and the degree of connection they feel.” While this may be true, along with the other studies on how technology is detrimental to society, there as also positives aspects that contribute to society as well. “It is not about giving our phones but about using them with greater intention” (Turkle). This quote by Turkle embodies how I feel about the technology debate and the more new technology and phones have developed the more we have analyzed whether or not they are good for our society, and at what age kids should use them.
Technology can go into positive and negative effect, but one thing that teenagers and parents cannot do is to stop using it for a long time. They get obsessed with it and you cannot get rid of these devices. Technology negatively affects brain development in children because usage affects their learning, and therefore technology use should be limited during children’s formative years. Students have their attention on phones and computers when they are at school.
Today, more than 40 percent of two-year-olds use some form of mobile device. These parents are allowing their children, most who barely can form sentences, to use these devices and consume the mind garbage on the internet. Every day these children and others use the internet for a range of things, anywhere from research to watching videos. These devices may help children in many ways, but they can also do the exact opposite. As parents keep allowing their children to overuse their screen time, it is causing great damage.
In modern society, technology advances have helped humanity tremendously. Technology has given doctors the ability to cure the unthinkable, majorly advance our ways of transportation, and have instant communication with someone across the world, and even those who are in space! Although technology has countless benefits, it also carries a deep dark side that many people are blind to. The ability to have such modern advancements at the tip of your fingers at any given moment could potentially be more dangerous than you will ever realize.
Today in America the topic of wether technology is hurting or helping our youth is very common umong the public. Many people believe that TV, tablets, online games, and spending to much time looking at a screen can damage the childs development and learning skills while others believe that it helps them learn more faster. This topic of conversation has been going on since technology began to start expanding rapidly in the early 2000's. In the first passage, "Screen Time Limits Are Vital for Children," the author claims that screens are destroying our younger generations and causing more harm than good.
The current study is the effects of exposure to technology on young children. As we become increasingly more reliant and absorbed in technology, it is no surprise that today’s children have become avid users as well (Hatch, 2011). Children at the age of three or four already have tablets, smart phones, and others; they could easily attain technologies and would even demand for one. As it makes easier for us, technology has both positive and negative impacts especially on young children. It comes with great opportunities but these opportunities likewise come with great risk
Additionally, according to Deon Price (2011), “Technology has even affected other healthy childhood activities. Today, skateboards and scooters are motorized. Even the ever-popular Big Wheel has been replaced by the battery-operated Power Wheel” (Price, 2011). As a result, the overall daily consumption of technology has put the child at the risk of diseases such as obesity due to
13 Ways by Which Technology Positively and Negatively Affects Children Technology has become a vital aspect in today’s world. Millions of people are reliant on different kinds of technology as they now can shop, pay, and bank online, receive and share news through emails and various social network, watch TV shows, videos, and movies, listen to music, play online games or computer games, and speed up work processes, tasks, and jobs. It is not surprising that not only adults but also children are grossly reliant on different technologies as well. The Positive Side However, there is a growing concern about children accessing technology through the use of laptops, computers, gaming device, android phones, tablets, and many other electronic
Many people can agree that the introduction of technology into society has impacted humans a lot. Kids are using cell phones, computers are used in schools. Technology is everywhere in people’s lives. But the true question is whether or not technology is ruining people. Starting from the fact that kids are getting less and less physical activity due to technology, technology also ruins social skills in people, and the fact that technology is very dangerous, technology is ruining people.
Children under Twelve years Old should not Use Smartphones Today, telecommunication and technology have improved dramatically and created facilities to make more convenient the life Human beings. One of the very important tools of technology and telecommunications, that people use a lot, is smart phones. Although cell phones have advantages for people and are considered as an essential and integral tool, they have their disadvantages as well. Nowadays, the user of smart phones are not only elders but also children use who are more vulnerable than elders. The disadvantages of smartphones are more than their advantages, so it can be a dilemma for some parents whether allow their children to use smartphones or do not.
