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Works Cited
Bilton, Nick. "The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind." New York Times 4 Jan.
2013: B9. New York TImes. 31 Mar. 2013. Web. 1 Mar. 2016.
This online newspaper article was written by Nick Bilton. Nick observed that his sister
resorted to giving her children tablets when they were misbehaving at a
restaurant. Instead of scribbling with their crayons or talking with each other the
children spent the evening starring at a screen. This concerned Nick Bilton and
so he collected some research on the impact of technology and child
development. He mentioned a millennium cohort study involving 19,000 British
children. The study revealed that most kids who watch more than three hours of
television or videos often showed signs of restlessness and had difficulty forming
relationships. However, kids who spent the same amount of time playing video
games did not show any hindrance in social development. Nick Bilton also cited
information provided by Sherry Turkle, a professor of science, technology and
society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She said that children learn
valuable lessons from interacting with one another and that prolonged daily uses
of technology inhibit their ability to develop social skills and relationships. In
general, Nick concluded that although allowing the children to spend a little bit
of time on their phones and tablets is not detrimental such things should be
supervised by the parents. The parents need to establish rules of what is allowed
to be watched, when it is allowed to be watched and for how long. I would
determine this article to be credible because he cited information from scholarly
people who are experts in the field of study and he also provided statistical data

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to provide proof behind his statements. I found this article interesting because the
author and I had similar concerns and similar intital questions. I will use some of
the data and research he collected to discuss the impact of technology on social
development on children. I specifically will focus on the cohort study that I
mentioned briefly earlier. Although Nick Bilton himself is not a credible source
he cited experts in the field that are credible.
Brown, Laura Lewis. "When to Introduce Your Child to a Smartphone or Tablet." PBS.
Web. 2 Mar. 2016.
This online website article aimed to provide insight to parents on when to give children
their first smartphone or tablet. According to Dr. Carolyn Jaynes children learn
best from interacting with the world around them and should not have acess to
smartphones or tablets till they are at least two years old. After two years-old
parent monitoring is highly advised. Also parents are encouraged to download
crticial thinking games and learning tools for their children on the technological
devices to encourage learning and thinking. The author herself does not provide
any credentials and sites very little statistical data. She provides opinions of child
development specialists and pediatricians but these opinions are not backed up
with any experimental data or studies. I find this website article useful in that it
provides a different perspective on the usefulness of technology that I happened
to overlook. Although, the specialists from Nick Biltons article state prolonged
daily tablet use led to comlications in social development, smartphones and
tablets could easily be used to educate children. There are plenty of educational
apps and games that could be downloaded and help aid in the cognitive

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development of a child. Although, I will probably not cite anything directly from
this source, it was important and useful in that it helped me see my topic from a
different perspective. After reading this article, I started asking more questions
and focusing my attention on the benefits of the use of technology and child
development.
Wennersten, Matthew, Zubeeda Banu Quraishy, and Malathi Velamuri. "Improving
Student Learning via Mobile Phone Video Content: Evidence from the BridgeIT
India Project." International Review of Education Int Rev Educ 61.4 (2015): 50328. SpringerLink. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
This scholarly article focused on a study done to see if cellphones could be used to
educate children in two Indian states; Andrah Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The
India Bridge IT company launched a mobile phone video-based education
program in 134 classrooms. They were able to successively improve the AP
scores of 4,000 students. Not only that but statistics showed that those using the
cellphone based program performed better than those using the normal computer
based program. This is a credible source because it was a scholarly peerreviewed article. It was not biased and proposed no opinion based accusations
but strictly statistical data and interpertations based on data collected from the
study. I will definitely cite the statistical data provided by this article to present
the benefits of smartphones in the cognitive development of children.
Williams, Amy. "How Do Smartphones Affect Childhood Psychology?" Psych Central. 6
Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

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This website article provided a lot of statistical information on the uses of smartphones
by young adults. For example she stated that 90 percent of kids have a
smartphone by age fourteen. Another interesting fact she mentioned was that on
average a person checks their phone 150 times a day. However, this article aimed
to disucss the impacts of smartphones on the development on a child. An
interesting point she discussed was how children lose a connection with their
parents when they close themselves up in their phones. Although the phone can be
used to develop social skills with friends rarely does it enhance communication
with parents. In fact the kids seclude themselves away from their parents using the
phones. The author also emphasized that smartphones have not been proven to
directly cause any detrimental physical harm. The fear of brain damage caused by
radiation emitted form cell phones has been disproven by several studies. Overall
the author cited credible sources such as Dr. Gary Small, the head of UCLAs
memory and aging center, or Dr. Jenny Radesky, from the Boston Medical
Center. The article does not show evidence of bias and uses statistics to support
claims. This article was useful in that it introduced a new perspective on the
drawbacks to having children with constant access to smartphones. Until I read
this article I did not realize that the smartphones were encouraging social skills
amongst the children through access of social media and texting but it also
discouraged communication with their parents. I will use this article in my paper
to discuss this specific drawback as well as mention some of the interesting
statistical data she provided in her article.

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For the first source, I would mention what sources he used that are credible that you are
considering using in the paper. Other than that, this source was well written and
very detailed. The second source was really good! I love how you mention that it
caused you to ask more questions and lead to specifying your topic. This third
article was interesting to me. After reading your summary I felt as though it
would be a useful source for me despite the fact that our topics are not the same.
The details you give in the summary are intact and well thought and I believe that
it will be a source I will use later in my paper. For the fourth source, I would
mention some of the statistics that are used on the website, just to lengthen your
useable section. Overall the sources are very well written and show the time
and effort that was put in this assignment.