What Effect Does Technology Have On Kids Of The New Generation?

The use of technologies in the younger generation is very outrageous. “Raising Generation Tech,” “Kaiser Foundation,” (37) talked about the study, that shows how adolescents are wasting their time on the technology. He explained that, they are using technology for about more than “five and half” hours a day without including their school programs. And those whom spent their time on technology are the age of “eight – eighteen.” It seems difficult for children’s to have a good relationship between their families anymore; because they are more into spending time on technologies and not giving attention. Gary Chapman, the author of “Growing up Social,” also talked about one particular family’s who has three kids under the ages of ten years

Twenge is thorough and credible in listing the many ways in which youth and young adults of today are affected by new technology. The article was intended to prove that children who grow up with a phone or tablet in their hands will have

In these modern times it is no secret that computer technology has become part of our everyday lives. Being an 18 year old kid now I still remember when I was in grade school I didnt have half of the technology these kids have now. It is almost getting out of hand what 10 year old kid needs a iphone and a smart watch. My own nephews are 3 and 4 and they wont put down there tablets ever. They go into screaming fits if you take it away from them.

The older kids who were born in 1998 through roughly 2002, so between the ages of 18 and 14, seem to have much less of a dependence on technology for interaction, because they can remember a time when technology was not always right there in their pockets. This is something that you can see just in walking down the street, and interestingly enough, the iphone came out in 2007, and that is when technology really took off. But for that younger age group, they have never known a life without all this technology. They all have phones, most of them have smartphones, or ipods which today are almost the equivalent of a smartphone. They are all constantly connected to their friends, always posting, snapping, sharing, liking, revining, commenting, they never have to be alone. It also seems that every other time you turn a corner, a parent is telling their kid to get off of their phone, or take out the headphones. And when they finally put them away, they are still distracted, wondering who might be texting them, or who just posted a picture. Parents are suggested to let kids do their thing on their phone, but it is a good idea teaching them how to be safe (Social Networking), because there are all kinds of stuff out there that children probably shouldn't be exposed to. But what does this say about the future? When the kids finally look up from their phones, are they going

the past few decades of American Society, technology has become a major factor in everyday life. As years go by, one will see many young children with phones, computers, or any form of technological device. This demand for technology has left children with an undesirable wanting for these devices. Because of technology, kids will forget the necessary foundations of life. Technology has resulted in a weakened foundation that children decades ago used to have. This includes the bases of necessary social skills and behaviors that children should have. The first image is from a Today.com news report. The second image is from a Huffington Post article. The growing technology field has severely impacted how children are able to adjust to minor adversities

If you were to take a stroll down any populated street in America, you would see the use of technology. So how has this impacted the children of this generation? In order to contrast this, I have interviewed two members of my community. Ron Moore (58) and Brayden Johnson (11), have lived very different childhoods, despite being raised in the same community, Ron spent most of his youth doing outdoors activities, learning to work, and was raised in a more family oriented manner.

Anya Kamenetz’s purpose is to support both digital tools and handwriting have positive and negative effects. Kamenetz explains both digital tools and handwriting are effective, “Writing for the page will continue to have its place, but writing for the web will be students’ first language and it’s up to teachers to help them learn how to do it well” (sec.6). She explains both digital tools and handwriting are important for students. Her point is that people still use handwriting to write a diary, on calendar and notes. “Students put their paper online make them work harder to fix their mistakes before put up online” (Kamenetz). Digital tools can make students work harder and motivate them about writing: “First, the good. Writing on the web is public or potentially public. This in itself seems to encourage students to work harder and be more excited about their written work” (Kamenetz sec.2). Digital tools help the student to work harder because student’s paper will be put online; it will cause the student not to make mistakes, and be more careful about writing a paper. Her tone is informative and advising students, which is more effective by not using digital tools or use digital tools to help to write. “The survey also highlighted some common concerns about digital tools’ effects on written

The current generation of children is completely different than the preceding ones. They are living in the digital age. “Technology has blended in with daily activity to become a way of life and children today take for granted all of which is automated. It is hard for kids nowadays to imagine a world that existed without all of the gadgets, electronics and seamless operations that computer technology provides.” (3) “Children in the United States devote some 40 hours a week to television, video games and the Internet.” (12) Many psychologists and researchers are concerned about the impact that technology has on children. Children, tomorrow’s future parents and leaders, are being consumed by the negative effects that technology had on their

“Technology is the young people’s downfall”, says a 65 year old woman named Loyce M. Vinson. Vinson was born in Arizona and raised in Oklahoma, where she currently still lives. Vinson is a mother of two and a has eight grandchildren with myself being one of them. After many years of watching her children grow up and now her grandchildren Vinson feels that her view on technology has completely changed. Vinson told me that she has three problems with technology: it makes kids have no clue what is going on, lazy, and emotionless bullyng.

Today’s technology has greatly impacted the young children’s everyday lives. Phones, tablets, and computers are all a form of technology that impact the way kids are influenced. Some children get phones or computers at young ages and it can cause kids to depend on it to entertain them. Eventually they will allow the technology to take over and have it become the form of communication between friend and family instead of face to face. As parents continue to buy their children new technology they don’t monitor the amount of time their children spend on the Internet. Technology is becoming more advanced overtime which causes children to become more attached and unable to function without it near by.

We all know technology is a good thing, right? Or is it? We can all come up with reasons why technology is helpful or appropriate like we can for a particular medicine. And while some drugs are really great to cure or prevent a disease, sometimes the side effects outweigh any possible benefit. The same is true with technology. Some common negative side effects of technology are kids playing on their phones instead of going outside to play or young people not interacting face-to-face as much as they used to. Parenting is an area that has suffered since the rise in technology, specifically with phone use.

Kids today are different than the kids growing up a few years ago. Advances in technology means today’s kids have the world at their fingertips. There are many positive and yet negative aspects of having so much readily available to them. It can be said that a negative aspect of current technology is a lack of attention among students today. In 2010 six to seven percent of school aged children were diagnosed with this disorder (Piumatti, Sacconi, Zucchetti, & Rabaglietti, 2014). That was five years ago, more and more students are being diagnosed with this disorder every day. This disorder is diagnosed by a child’s lack of attention for their age or inability to keep still (Piumatti, Sacconi, Zucchetti, & Rabaglietti, 2014).

Children should learn handwriting in general, but most importantly learn how to write cursive. The problem that is getting in the way of children learning handwriting is computers and the advanced technologies that prevent us from practicing our own personal hand. Many schools such as Flint’s Carpenter Road Elementary School received a grant that gave them free computers, and TV’s for their classroom. This school, like many others is now focusing on teaching children to type and computer skills they will need later on. Although typing is good to know, there are many downsides and faults to this seemingly innovative and progressive skill.

The average person in the United States will work over 80,000 hours in their lifetime; making it second only to the average time spent sleeping. This labours task every person is expected, with few exceptions, to uphold as a societal standard. It’s then reasonable to establish that a person's career is as much a part of them, as any other aspect of their lives.

Technology has changed society over the past two decades more than it had in the past century. Technology has fast-forwarded previous traditions of families whom once ate home-cooked meals at the dining room table, spent the majority of each other’s time together talking, teaching, understanding, and learning from one another. Technology now has placed everyone into hyper speed, it has created a way for less human interaction from ordering food in the drive-thru to the creation of social media and texting. Technology has created a way of communicating without the ability of seeing and understanding a person’s emotions. The technology epidemic is creating negative energy towards children in today’s society; it is changing children’s emotions, influencing obesity, effecting cognitive ability, producing unsafe situations, and disconnecting parental relationship.