Designing Your Web Interface For Children

Individuals and companies having a website must consider if the site is marketed or if it is appealing to individuals under 13 years. Website developers need to be aware of the children’s online privacy protection act that places parents in control of the type of information that can be collected from young children online. The legislation was designed to protect individuals less than 13 years about the dynamic nature of the internet. The statute applies to commercial websites and online services aiming children under 13 that collects, make use of information and gathers personal information from children. The act also applies to general websites and an online service that receives application and extracts personal information from individuals under 13. The paper provides the measures that sites can use to ensure their website does not violate the

their ads. With technology, it is much easier for advertisers to target children. Kids from the ages

Slide 10: Recent research has shown that children as young as 2 have the ability to learn from on-screen media sources (Richert, Robb, & Smith, 2011). The number one fear of parents is that their child will be exposed to predators and inappropriate content without their knowledge. However, independence of children is necessary for them to build trust-based relationships, develop socially, and hone critical thinking skills (Nolan, Raynes-Goldie, & McBride, 2011). Having Sof-A-Logue as the safe haven for children to develop technological skills in such a way that they are protected, yet free to make healthy choices in social media interactions will ensure that repeated generations of consumers grow up on the website and apps.

These days, the majority of children matured 2-3 years have acquainted themselves with web, and playing mobile phone and computer games. Children between the ages of eight and twelve are using the internet daily. Innovation has progressed, and children are now part of the information. Children are great in adapting new things even though there little. It's in this way a good pattern for children to be more instructed through the web.

A child is more capable of handling rapid cyber searches, making quick decisions, developing visual acuity, and multitasking. Games help develop peripheral vision. Visual motor tasks like tracking objects or visually searching for items is improved. Internet users tend to use decision-making and problem-solving brain regions more often.(Amy Williams)

In an era like the twenty-first century, it is not unusual for children all over America to be exposed to technology. The Pew Research Center released the “Teens, Social Media, & Technology Overview 2015,” which determined that eighty-seven percent of adolescents have access to a computer and fifty-eight percent have access to a tablet (Lenhart). In addition, the research center also reported that ninety-two percent of adolescents reported daily internet use. Before, children were playing outside with friends for fun, and socializing with their friends and family in person. Today, kids play and interact through laptops, tablets, and other media devices. Technology has become a part of most children and adolescent’s everyday life, through the way they interact with the world.

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the sight of a three-year-old picking up an iPad and navigating it with no issues. I considered myself as part of the technological generation, but I had never stopped to think about the next generation after us. After reading Hanna Rosin’s “The Touch-Screen Generation”, I began to think about the future and what technology will mean for the later generations. Rosin goes through an analysis of the technological options children have today and the research done over the implications of this new era. I, however, want to further examine Rosin’s choices made in this article to appeal her argument to the audience.

An increasing number of children are now using the Internet. They are starting at a younger age, using a variety of devices and spending more time online. The Internet can be a major channel for their education, creativity and self-expression. However, it also carries a spectrum of risks to which children are more vulnerable than adults. Addressing risks faced by children online is becoming a policy priority for an increasing number of governments (‘’The protection of children online’’, 2011, pg.13).

Children are more likely to be found on a technological device that can access the Internet than outside being physically active. While in many cases, they are knowledgeable online users, children are still at risk when using the Internet. Their right to privacy online is endangered, especially when online businesses target children as consumers. Thus, an increased threat of children’s personal data collection exists.

First of all, there has been a drastic rise of technology use in children over the past decade. Screens are easily accessible, easily addicting, and television companies know how to catch a child’s eye, and have them staring at their show for hours. Children have access to technology all the time, making it easy to become hooked on screen time. Today, “68% of U.S. adults have a smartphone” (Anderson). Many adults are around children. More often than not, when children get bored, adults simply hand the phone over. Consequently, technology use is on the rise. “In 2013, almost fifty-seven percent of children, ages three to seventeen used the Internet at home, nearly six times as many as in 1997, which was eleven percent” (“Home Computer Access and Internet Use”). Children have easy access to screens.

The use of mobile electronic devices, specifically iPads, has become strikingly popular in America. Along with this growth, the age at which they are being introduced is getting lower and lower. Out of all electronic devices, the iPad is considered to have the fastest adoption rate (Manuguerra & Petocz, 2011). In fact, by the age of two over 90 percent of children had, at minimum, a moderate knowledge of how to use an iPad (Hourcade, Mascher, Wu & Pantoja, 2015). For decades, children of this age group have been watching television, but with newer technology they are now able to constantly stream videos, play games, and access apps off their mobile devices. Though the use of instantly accessible visual media is convenient and rapidly increasing,

While many parents of young kids are advocates for protecting their children against unsafe material, some disagree. For example, they believe that anything should be available and accessible to everyone on the Internet, regardless of age. They argue that control over the Internet’s contents would constitute as unlawful censorship, and thus violate their rights under the First Amendment. They also believe that it is the responsibility of each parent to supervise their child’s Internet use. However, an unsuspecting child may hit an inappropriate hyperlink by accident while innocently “surfing” the Internet. This could lead to confusion, exposure to material too mature for their age, and awkward situations.

Due to the rise of children going online, the Children’s Charities created the world’s first Internet accounts for kids to safely browse the web. This is a result of kids stating they have been “upset” by what they find on the Internet and parent’s inability to regulate the website children visit.

It is not possible for parents alone to provide internet security for all children. Some developers have created internet filters that protect children from adult-natured content. These filters are important in reducing the risks children face by reducing their access to the risky websites. They are easily accessible and provide parents with a tool to monitor their children’s internet activity. However, these filters are not fool proof. It is possible to work around them in order to access the forbidden content, with quick explanations

I remember my first phone at the age of 10, it was a small Nokia that lit up different colors each time I received a call. I thought it was the best phone I ever had till this day because it was so different from the others despite that it was a pain trying to add on a ringtone from my favorite song because I had to use the voice recorder to record the songs on the radio and set them as my ringtone. I can tell you I was surrounded by technology every second during my youth. To computers, downloading music software and fixing phones, there wasn’t one day I wasn 't surrounded by technology. Unfortunately, I haven’t got to experience the type of technology we have now as a child but, I do have experienced how advance computers, tablets and phones today have impacted children at such a very young age and how parents can use it to their advantage. I have a 4 year old sister that started to play with tablets at the age of 2! Who would 've known a 2 year old would have the capability of searching music or apps on a tablet or “baya” as she would call it. I noticed it was great to download applications that will help her learn how to read and write and also become familiar with this type of technology. Now at the age of 4 you can say she knows her ABC’s very well. As of now I have seen that it has helped me succeed as a student and as for many students in this country.