Source Three:
“The Effects of Screen Time on Children”
Notes:
- “Changing world”
- Positive effects of screen time:
- Technology and screens are motivating in the eyes of children.
- Children are now being raised in a new time where technology is more integrated than ever before.
- Children observe their parents and other peers using technology, and they want to mimic their parents and do the same.
- Even if they don’t like the subject, they are still motivated to use the technology platform.
- Schools are widely incorporating technology – they believe that students are learning better.
- Children are exposed to lots of unique learning through technology in the classroom, more than students before them.
- Teaches skills that will be applicable in their lifetime.
- Prepares them with knowledge of how to work technology.
- Screen time and learning technology is now a basic requirement.
- Allows for the expansion of communication and family bonding
- Eg. access to “face to face” connections over long distance through video call.
- They can now recognize facial gestures over the phone.
Bidwell, Jeremy. “The Effects of Screen Time on Children”. Psych Central. April 12, 2019.
