Technology In Schools Out: A Cartoon Analysis
Technology has advanced over the years and now mostly everyone uses it. Children use it a lot especially since they are now able to. Schools Out is the name of the cartoon above and it made by a guy named Joe Heller. In the cartoon it talks about how when school is over children spend most of their time using technology. In the cartoon it shows how kids use technology too much and all the time. The thing that the author is trying to argue about in this cartoon is that children are using way too much technology. School is now out and now have a lot of free time to do anything that they want. During that free time they choose to go online and use their cellphones, iPad, laptop, or play games online and they would spend hours using them. Technology
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One thing that is good is that it is helpful in gaining new information. It is also helpful sometimes for little kids because there are apps and websites that help children in learning things like math, ABC’s, numbers, and even learning how to read. The bad thing is that they tend to spend many hours online. Using technology can cause many things to happen to children. It can cause obesity, changes in the development of children's brains, and emotional instability (Kids spend too much time with technology). Those things can happen to children. The obesity can happen because when someone uses technology like their cellphone they tend to be just sitting down and for a long time without making any movement leading to them gaining weight. Something negative that can also happen to kids who use way too much technology is that when they use they sometimes are too close to the screen and that hurts the eyes and because of that they may end up having to need to use glasses. In order to prevent these effects, parents need to realize the imperativeness of teaching their children to improve their self-control and limit their use of technology (Kids spend too much time with technology). Time playing outside: UK 2.5 hours a week, US 30 mins, France 7 hours (Culliford). The time that kids spend outside is not a lot because they are spending their time inside using technology. In order to prevent these effects, parents need to
One thing that is good is that it is helpful in gaining new information. It is also helpful sometimes for little kids because there are apps and websites that help children in learning things like math, ABC’s, numbers, and even learning how to read. The bad thing is that they tend to spend many hours online. Using technology can cause many things to happen to children. It can cause obesity, changes in the development of children's brains, and emotional instability (Kids spend too much time with technology). Those things can happen to children. The obesity can happen because when someone uses technology like their cellphone they tend to be just sitting down and for a long time without making any movement leading to them gaining weight. Something negative that can also happen to kids who use way too much technology is that when they use they sometimes are too close to the screen and that hurts the eyes and because of that they may end up having to need to use glasses. In order to prevent these effects, parents need to realize the imperativeness of teaching their children to improve their self-control and limit their use of technology (Kids spend too much time with technology). Time playing outside: UK 2.5 hours a week, US 30 mins, France 7 hours (Culliford). The time that kids spend outside is not a lot because they are spending their time inside using technology. In order to prevent these effects, parents need to