Aimane Ouarour

Aimane Ouarour
Professor Kolin Goncalves
FAS 0210
7 April 2015
The Impact of Technology on Kids

Bill Gates, an American inventor and computer programmer once said:

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and

motivating them, the teacher is the most important.(www.brainyquote.com)

Sometimes it boggles my mind when I think about how fast the world has

propelled in the field of technology and innovation. From phones to PCs to

digital book (e-book) and iPods, it appears that everything we utilize today is

powered through technology. Accordingly, a lot of routines for adults are

getting to be old fashioned or pass, for example, reading hard copies of

newspapers, writing letters by hand, and frequenting the library. Children

growing up in this quick paced innovation based world are communicating

much more, with numerous more people, than kids their age from 40 years

back, yet they are losing numerous basic social abilities. Children learn social

abilities in three ways: they learn from adults what is wrong or right, they

observe social interactions, and they work on interacting with their social

surrounding. Technology has lessened human contact so that kids are not

learning the best possible social abilities to help them succeed in their adult

lifetime. Through human contact, kids learn the art of covert messages in

their activities and speech. Reduced human contact, leading to weakened

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social skills, can bring kids to be socially unbalanced which thus makes them

shrink away from social circumstances. (Rothenberg 1)

Todays social networking tools are producing new concerns. There are not

just security issues connected with messaging, using for example Facebook

and different forms of social media, however there is also authentic worry

about the impact on kids social abilities and their ability to have healthy

relationships with different people. Technology is fast replacing face-to-face

experiences that play a pivotal role to the development and improvement of

a kids social skills. Human-to-human connection is something they will need

to use in the work environment, alongside the human-to-machine

cooperation. A study by broadly known analyst Larry Rosen, Ph.D.

furthermore, his partners compared real world empathy, social support and

online empathy. They found there was a positive correlation between

belonging to a social network, such as Twitter or Facebook, and online

sympathy, but not with real world sympathy. In other words much like past

research related to television and film online experiences do not translate

into the same feelings when out in the real world.

(www.kidsatrisk.wordpress.com)

Indeed, technology has made our lives simpler and in all actuality electronic

correspondence is staying put. It gives an effective and essential approach to

share information, make arrangements and stay aware with friends in our

networks. The eighteen and under era is spending as much as four hours a

day corresponding and communicating with others via gadgets. They plainly
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profit from the connection, in light of the fact that studies show they feel a

full range of feelings in this domain of screen messages. So instead of battle

what is setting down deep roots and what does offer a few advantages, it

makes good sense for parents to help their children learn to apply and

manage the technology. (www.kidsatrisk.wordpress.com)The big challenge

that parents have to face is to keep their children away from getting

addicted to their cell phones and computers. Parents must make sure that

their children should spend time without using electronic with family and

companions, so they can experience the difference between a personal

connection and an electronic connection. Both types of communication are

valuable and profitable, however nothing can ever really replace spending

real time with friends.

Parents have a pivotal impact and a huge responsibility on a kids social

abilities advancement, through clarifying at the point when commending a

good action or when a behavior is improper. With the innovation today, kids

can convey without their guardians supervision and control, so the parents

can't deal with a terrible conduct. Kids can email and text improperly without

parental supervision, arriving them in a bad position and landing them in

trouble. With the addition of social networking websites, kids communicate

with many people without knowing to whom they are talking. Being nave,

numerous kids post their own personal information and data on these sites,

not understanding that someone can go after them, whether in person or

online. With the improvement of new technology each day, grown-ups need
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to comprehend and to have full understanding that children may be acting

improperly through these machines and are doing as such since they have

no guardians supervision to tell them otherwise (Rothenberg 2). It's important

to meet up as parents, therapists and teachers to help society "wake up" and

see the staggering impacts technology is having not only on our kids

psychological , physical and behavioral health, additionally on their capacity

to learn and maintain personal and family relationships.

References

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Rothenberg, Malka. Student Essay Contest. oaklandcc.edu. Web. 4 April

2015.

MCPEEK, JANET. The Impact of Technology on Kids Social Skills

kidsatrisk.wordpress.com . Web. 4 April 2015.