To What Extent Is Technology Affecting Children's Development

As our generations and technological world has vastly began to develop and expand rapidly, a repeated debate of whether technology use for young babies and children is beneficial or harmful to the physical and cognitive development of the child. As research has taken place to determine more answers around this topic, experts and parents from all different generations cast their opinion on the matter.

Technology has only been around for 20 years and has already inflicted pain on many. Especially those that are students and did not become used to the new style of teaching compared to the new style of teaching. The old style of teaching is the classical version where students are able to learn what they love to do instead of taking all the classes children hate and end up failing. Classical style of teaching benefits the students because they actually want to learn. The integration of technology has negatively impacted children of this generation because it causes health problems, technology leads to terrible work ethics and performance in

One reason technology is negatively affecting children is because the lack of privacy it has. Children at younger ages now have access to bigger social media websites causing them to become interested in what is available on them. Certain children may bully others without even thinking twice that it is bullying With personal profiles being available to anyone it causes the bullying of other children to increase because they do not know it is doing harm to that

There are lots of studies in the impact of technology on children’s developing minds. Studies found that diagnoses of ADHD, autism, coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible speech, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders are associated with technology overuse, and are increasing at an alarming rate (Rowen). Technology is causing a harmful effect on some children these days and it could potentially be harming them in the long run. children who use too much technology may not have enough opportunities to use their imagination or to read and think deeply about the material (Deloatch). I am a single parent of a 3-year-old girl and I face the problem of technology overuse from my daughter on a daily basis. My daughter has had a mobile device since she was able to walk. She is completely and utterly obsessed with watching her cartoon shows. Every day after she gets home or wakes up in the morning, the first thing she asks for is her shows. She would always ask for our cell phones before she got to watch things on the big TV in the living room, and when we would tell her no she would throw a big tantrum about it. She has a very short attention span as well; it is hard for her to focus on one thing at a time. The technology keeps her up until almost 2 or 3 in the morning sometimes. If we try to turn it off, she still roams around the house and throw fits until she gets someone to turn it back on or falls asleep.

I would have to say that technology is ruining children's lives. The more new things come up the more lazy we get. I would have to say that having a phone is very distracting, but I am able to stay off of it. Not many kids have grown up to be on electronics, but now every kid in the US has some type of device that distracts them from going outside. Not many people tell their kids that they need to go outside and to be active. More and more kids now a days are lazy and don’t do anything. So many kids think that they can function while on the internet, but in reality they can’t. For example, my brother thinks that he will die if he doesn’t get to play his video games. My mother only allows him to play for an hour and only if he has his homework

With a flip of a switch or press of a button, Parents can have their child entertained for hours on end. Televisions and Tablets are the twenty-first century babysitters. The average child spends an astounding 7.5 hours per day on some form of technology (Rowan 2), when the recommend allotted amount of time should be no more than two hours (Kaneshiro 1). Technology is rapidly evolving, making limitless possibilities available for entertainment. This virtual “babysitter” enables the parents to devote all their time and effort into their work or engross in technology with limited amounts of distraction from the children. Although, the parents are able to have free time, excessive amounts of screen time is proven to be detrimental to their child’s health and overall well-being. The technology that is drastically making life easier is a big blessing, but at the same time is a big curse.

Technology has become a part of our daily lives, our entertainment and our main source of information. Every day we use some sort of device, even kids as young as one or two. But giving young children electronic devices, such as phones and tablets, can negatively affect their development as they grow.

There has always been great concern whether or not exposure to monitors and TV's disrupt the natural functions, and development of a child's brain. I strictly believe that being exposed to these devices is healthy and benefitial for their brain during their developmental.

Other studies have shown that using technology devices, both during and after school, not only decreased student’s productivity and made it harder for them to learn; but it also negatively affected their social life and health. Vandewater and colleagues (2007) found that technology can adversely affect children’s development because students have a harder time socially, academically, and physically (Vandewater, Rideout, Wartella, Huang, Lee, & Shim, 2007). Their study showed that young children are more inclined to stay indoors and watch television than to go play outside, allowing the possibility of long term negative effects. For example, children can also develop sleeping disorders if the parents use the television to put them to bed or

In today 's world, it is not uncommon to see children using technology. In fact, just about everywhere you venture you are likely notice a child with an iPhone, or a tablet. Within the last five years’ elementary schools have been depending more on technology such as computers, and tablets for learning, compared to 10 years ago when everything was teacher taught and the closest form of technology found in the classroom happened to be a projector. The fact that there was little use of technology in elementary schools when today 's adults were growing up could sure-enough be the reason that many adults are skeptical when it comes to the use of electronics in elementary school. Many adults will say that children stay on the computers too much, and that it isn’t healthy for them. Another reason adults could be hesitant to accept that technology is an important key to learning is the fact that some children have learning disabilities and could struggle when learning from a computer. Adults will also point out that not every child has access to a computer at home to complete at home assignments. However the purpose of technology in elementary school is there to enhance and broaden the educational process not to hinder it.

Technology has many adverse effects on young children that could cause permanent damage in their lives. How many young children in your family do you see exposed to technology? In this day and age everyone including toddlers are frequently exposed to some sort of technology such as a television, computer, laptop, smartphone, or a tablet for hours. Technology is rapidly becoming an addiction for young children because parents are continuously using this as a form of appeasement. I fear that in a decade a toddler will be teaching me how to use an intricate device. What parents do not know is that this frequent exposure to technology is the core to their child lacking communication skills, acquiring numerous diseases, and preventing them from the four critical factors necessary to achieve healthy child development.

Technology applications in educational settings positively influence children to communicate, learn, and enhance problem-solving skills. Once technology applications are presented to children, their parents have to adjust to help them with homework, whether it may be in another language or in a certain application online. Technology, an electronic system of knowledge, generates different perspectives for children to comprehend information. Several programs encourage children to work on their homework, keeping them involved and interested to work in an enjoyable educational manner. Implementing technology such as Mathrabbit and Starfall in an educational setting prepares children for the real world; furthermore, educational applications assist in bringing children and parents together.

Today’s world is imaginative, expressive, creative, fast, adaptive and crazy. All these features which are a part of mankind, are the gift of technology. Technology today is almost dependent on internet for everything. Every human is connected, his thoughts are exposed and intentions are revealed easily. Customized search options, fast search engines, 24 hrs. chatting sites, open blogs and viral content is actually becoming the major reason for the children’s technological development. Today every child is smart and tech savvy. But where are we heading towards? Thousands of sites on the internet are filled with the adult and offensive content. Every day thousands of children are forced to enter the devilish field of pornography and

How parents are interacting with their children, especially with their toddlers, is drastically changing since technology now plays such a big role in our everyday life. Parents subconsciously have allowed technology to alter the way they view interacting with their child. Instead of taking them outside for a walk or to the park to play with other toddlers, parents now simply just turn on the television for their youngster. Something that the parents have not yet put much thought into is how will this new atmosphere that they are creating for their child affect how the child develops? The parent sees something like the television playing, or an application on their phone as harmless, but don’t realize that they are hindering their interaction and relationship with their child. This then affects early childhood development such as speech and social interaction with others their age. Televisions, smartphones, and tablets interfere with interactions crucial to the development of a toddler, causing some developmental delays.

These days times are changing, increasingly fast, technology advances are leaping us ahead faster than we could have imagined and this has been a major component of the rapid velocity of today 's society (Walker, 2005). Most people of today find they are rushing everywhere, be it getting to work or getting home from work, even getting our children to and from their activities is a rush to complete; In current times, we expect everything to be done the moment it is requested, most of us have access to emails, messages and phone calls instantly due to mobile phones and devices however, even with the benefits of our technological advances, people don’t seem to be any happier, healthier or wiser for it (Walker, 2005). With our fast paced,