Children Without Handheld Devices
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As children are growing up in a new generation, a generation surrounded by technology, it is considered that handheld devices should be banned from children under 12 years old. Many people concede that this new generation is going to be better than the other ones. For instance, when a child can manipulate a smart phone, adults give credits to children, believing that the child is the smart one. However, they do not analyze that this type of technology was made for everyone, and that the smart one is the phone, not the children. As a matter of fact, there are some issues that are indirectly related the technology with children. Firstly, those devices limit the development of children’s brain, affect indirectly the children’s behavior, and became children addicted. Although, not all is adverse for children, these types of devices encourage children to add fun during the learning process.
On one hand, handheld devices limit the development of children’s brain. Nowadays, children do not try to make any effort to create something on their own due to the fact that they consider that everything is online and the only thing they need to do is to look for it. Also, children consider that everything is already discovered and solved. Thanks to the internet, everyone can have access to any information in their own handheld devices, the main issue is the quality of information. If the information is totally unreliable.
Moreover, handheld devices affect indirectly the children’s behavior. There have been different studies which aim to inquire the main causes that make children misbehave in these days. Nevertheless, one probable main cause could be related to the fact that only with touching a screen, children can access to any sort of content, even that content not allow to children. Those forbidden content are where is less expected, for instance, some apps for children which the main purpose is to provide entertainment, fun for children, such as Sugar Crush, Royal Kingdoms (Disney), may include different sort of advertisements for adults, with information that children do not understand. Those types of advertisements of war games that give the message that they only need to kill people to survive.
Besides, children develop an addition to handheld devices. Most of the technological creators, such as Steve Jobs, avoid their children to use those devices owing to the fact that they take into account the serious addition that anyone who uses it could develop. At the begging it is normal to spend some type with these devices, however, when it makes children to avoid doing their responsibilities such as assignments from school. Some parents consider it is normal because they do it the same. Children just follow the parents’ example; they will do whatever their parents do.
On the other hand, handheld devices encourage children to add fun during the learning process. Technology brought with it different tools that are pretty useful for children during the learning process. It is thought that this era is surrounded by technology; classrooms nowadays offer different activities in which children can involve handheld devices at the same time they are learning. Also, there are many apps to download in those devices that the main purpose is to practice different topics using didactic ways to entertain children. Some of the TV shows for children develop an app in order for children to learn with their favorite characters that they see on television.
To conclude, handheld devices introduce some negative consequences to children. That is why it is totally important that parents support children at the same time when they are involved with handheld devices. Besides, parents should manage a schedule with the specific time that children can spend with those devices so as not to make them addicted. All of that in order to expect more from a generation that since before be born they are involved with it.
On one hand, handheld devices limit the development of children’s brain. Nowadays, children do not try to make any effort to create something on their own due to the fact that they consider that everything is online and the only thing they need to do is to look for it. Also, children consider that everything is already discovered and solved. Thanks to the internet, everyone can have access to any information in their own handheld devices, the main issue is the quality of information. If the information is totally unreliable.
Moreover, handheld devices affect indirectly the children’s behavior. There have been different studies which aim to inquire the main causes that make children misbehave in these days. Nevertheless, one probable main cause could be related to the fact that only with touching a screen, children can access to any sort of content, even that content not allow to children. Those forbidden content are where is less expected, for instance, some apps for children which the main purpose is to provide entertainment, fun for children, such as Sugar Crush, Royal Kingdoms (Disney), may include different sort of advertisements for adults, with information that children do not understand. Those types of advertisements of war games that give the message that they only need to kill people to survive.
Besides, children develop an addition to handheld devices. Most of the technological creators, such as Steve Jobs, avoid their children to use those devices owing to the fact that they take into account the serious addition that anyone who uses it could develop. At the begging it is normal to spend some type with these devices, however, when it makes children to avoid doing their responsibilities such as assignments from school. Some parents consider it is normal because they do it the same. Children just follow the parents’ example; they will do whatever their parents do.
On the other hand, handheld devices encourage children to add fun during the learning process. Technology brought with it different tools that are pretty useful for children during the learning process. It is thought that this era is surrounded by technology; classrooms nowadays offer different activities in which children can involve handheld devices at the same time they are learning. Also, there are many apps to download in those devices that the main purpose is to practice different topics using didactic ways to entertain children. Some of the TV shows for children develop an app in order for children to learn with their favorite characters that they see on television.
To conclude, handheld devices introduce some negative consequences to children. That is why it is totally important that parents support children at the same time when they are involved with handheld devices. Besides, parents should manage a schedule with the specific time that children can spend with those devices so as not to make them addicted. All of that in order to expect more from a generation that since before be born they are involved with it.
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