Children and Technology
Young children being affected by the usage of Technology. Technology is knowledge that involves techniques, processes and machinery between science and human. It is affecting children and adults both in positives and negative ways. It has always been debated whether the use of technology has improved or worsened human conditions everyone always has a different approach and ways of believing that their children learn.
A child in this day and age that doesn't know how to manage a computer, tablet, smart phones or television is very strange. Many wonder how much good is that actually doing to children? Is this enabling them to depend on these computers and phones to get everything done for
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That also doesn’t include texting which can average roughly another two to three hours a day. Many of the concerns that are being brought up in regards to so much usage of computers, iPads, tablets and smartphones are the technology dependency. It is found that mathematically grades in the last couple of years have dropped due to kids depending on calculators. It is also found that children are also struggling on Spelling and English because it is automatically corrected for them. Some of the other issues that technology has brought up is communication and social skills with children and young adults. It has brought a boundary between families because everyone is in their own social world, between Facebook, twitter, Instagram and texting as well as emails families are being divided. Children as well as young adults rather spend the day looking up information online or gaming then heading outside for a game of basketball, baseball or and other sporting. Many children have become addicted and if parents do not react this could bring social skill problems. In fact it is being diagnosed that a lot of health problems such as overweight and prescribed glasses have technologies name behind it. Parents should participate more in putting restrictions so that time limits are