Sean, P. (2009, October 7). Children as young as five 'using the internet without parental…
Children and young people have increasing access to the internet via home computers, mobile phones, tablets and gaming consoles.…
The twenty-first century is defined as a digital world. Technology has taken over our present lives. It does not in any way resemble our past lives. Societies all over the world managed to master these technologies and make the best out of them and so far one could argue they have been successful. However one cannot deny that downsides do exist. People today are unable to extract themselves from the internet and all the technologies that come along with it. The Internet is definitely a complex tool, a tool that has ultimately changed the world and its population. The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed with it and dependent on it. Wherever one looks, one is bound to see something related with the Internet. The blooming of this 20th century technology has led a lot of people to be critical of it. Although there are a lot of aspects to the Internet, this paper will specifically focus on how the Internet has revolutionized children’s traditional learning and intelligence, and will explain how the internet makes children both smarter and dumber at the same time.…
According to the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (2003),” with advances in internet usage in homes, schools, and libraries across the nation, the internet has become a valuable and even critical tool for our children’s success”.…
• Parents play a major role in overseeing children’s access to material on the internet.…
For most children and teenagers, using the Internet has joined watching television and talking on the phone in the repertoire of typical behavior. In fact, 87 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds are now online, according to a 2005 Pew Research Center report. That's a 24 percent increase over the previous four years, leading parents and policymakers to worry about the effect access to worlds of information--and misinformation--has on children. Psychologists are only beginning to answer that question, but a study led by Michigan State University psychologist Linda Jackson, PhD, showed that home Internet use improved standardized reading test scores. Other researchers have found that having the Internet at home encourages children to be more self-directed learners.…
The Internet can be a wonderful resource for kids. They can use it to research school reports, communicate with teachers and other kids, and play interactive games. Kids who are old enough to punch in a few letters on the keyboard can literally access the world.…
The Internet, including the World Wide Web, is perhaps the single most important invention to impact on elementary, secondary, and higher education in today's world. If parents are to understand how their children use technologies for learning, they must understand some things about the Internet and the Web. This section of the San Diego Public Library site offers information for parents on various aspects of this invention.…
Reasons for not using the Internet centered mainly on the absence of Internetconnection at home/school (61%) and computer illiteracy (51%). Lack of Internetconnection at home may be due to economic reasons as well asparents’ low educational background, since 83 percent of the non-users arepublic school students.The high level of computer illiteracy should be a priority concern since“competitiveness” and “survival” of children in today’s Knowledge Society is toa great extent dependent on digital literacy. Computer classes are notavailable in public elementary schools compared with private schools.…
Indonesia is the largest country in the South East Asia region. As we know, Indonesia has large number of people. Unfortunately, my beloved country has not optimized using its commodities and recourses. We still have lot of opportunity, which is, has not been or not so well touched, and this is including Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area. The definition of ICT itself is the set of activities that facilitate by electronic means the processing, transmission, and display of information. ICT has become a powerful tool in the fight against world poverty, providing developing countries with an unprecedented opportunity to meet vital development goals, such as poverty reduction, basic health care, and education, far more effectively than before. Nowadays, ICT has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. ICT also involving in our daily life, use in the internal interest. Therefore, the number of ICT user in the world is rapidly increasing as well as in Indonesia. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Moreover, nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.…
The web will therefore play a part in children’s lives now and in the near future because:…
To determine the effects of excessive use of the internet on students’ socialization skills, the survey was distributed to 30 students enrolled in St. Theresa’s College of Quezon City of the fourth year level. The fourth year levels have pupils with ages ranging from 15-17, with numerous family traditions and backgrounds, and with varied personalities and interests. Ten students were randomly chosen from three sections namely 3, 4, and 6 through drawing class numbers from a box. The survey was administered on November 25, 2014 and was later received on November 27, 2014. The study was set up to explore the question: how does excessive internet use affect the students’ performance in terms of their socialization skills in school?…
Network are bombarded with information!Internet is unsupervised,unexpected and it gives total freedom for children to do anything with a electronic devices.admitting that they never read to their children at night.…
As we move into a new era, the Internet has revolutionized society in terms of economy, education, technology, and more. In the early days of internet presence in Malaysia, its ability is limited compared to today. Internet users in this age can already do almost everything and do even just sitting at home facing the computer screen equipped with access to the Internet. In fact, it has become an important requirement for some individuals.…
In this study, the researchers are curious about the good and bad effects of the Net to the youth. Meaning to say, the advantages and disadvantages of the World Wide Web. Furthermore, they want to find out more on what positive and negative benefits and influences the Net has. The researchers studied on their fellow second year students of the school year 2011-2012 on the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet to them, in their schedule, values and their lives.…