Task 2

Name    : Septa Skundarian

Class  :  3eb12

NPM     :  26212921

The Impact of the Use of Gadgets in Children

As you know, everything has its positive and negative impacts. Same is the case with the technology’s impacts on children. For the proper growth of your children, it is highly necessary for you to have knowledge of positive and negative impacts of technology on them. The are some of the impact of the use of gadgets on children

A.  Cultural Aspects

Positive :

·     Advances in information technology that is increasingly rapidly create children have the ease to information and ease in communication with parents, friends, relatives with long distances. And with gadgets kids easily communicate with people without requiring large amounts. For example through social networks children can communicate with people from different parts of the world

Negative :

·      Children are addicted to gadgets. They don’t have time to sit with their parents and to spend some good time with them. They prefer to connect with their friends and relatives via text messaging, chatting etc., rather than meeting them actually. Means, they are connected with others in the virtual world, but not in the real world.

·       The influx of western culture is slowly without filtration of those who follow.

B.  Educational Aspects

Positive :

·      The technology has been proven to be useful in education. Children can access the web and get the detailed knowledge about any topic. The education games help them to perform well in academics.

·       All kids like to play video games. When playing such games with their friends/relatives, they earn the competition skills. The competition skills that children learn from the video games help them compete with others in the real world.

Negative Impacts of Technology on Children

Negative :

·        There are many technological gadgets to which children are addicted. They waste their valuable time on these silly gadgets without worrying about the studies. This is resulting in their poor academic performance.

·       Technology has its negative effect on writing skills of children. Standard English is not used in the text messaging, chatting. While writing text messages, no one cares about the spelling, punctuation and grammar. This is resulting in poor writing skills of children.

C.  The Nations Characteristics

Positive :

·       With the gadget, we can relate to anyone both within the country and outside the country. So that we can know the differences that exist in other countries. However, we have to filter out the influence of other cultures so that our country's identity is not lost.

Negative :

·      Children are future of our country, our world. The sad thing is that due to increasing technology, children have been found going away from their moral values. Internet is working as curse for children’s character. Rather than using Internet in productive manner, children use it as source of adult content.

·        The loss of a sense of nationalism and more in love with foreign products.

Well, it is quite clear that there are more bad impacts than the positive impacts of technology on children. In fact, the positive or negative effects of any particular thing depend on how we use it. By limiting the involvement of technology in children’s life, we can easily bring an end to all negative impacts listed above.