d Children’s lives are already getting influenced by technology – and this is just the beginning. Computers and Internet are here to stay and software titles targeting young children continue to increase. Today, we find computers in use everywhere, whether we go to reserve a train ticket or to a Bank or even to book your ticket on the airplane. This is because it is faster and helps us complete our work. Actually even the businessman target the kids as their captured market and invite Parents and make them realized that their children need to develop strong computer skills.
Children are learning to read and write with computer games instead of homemade flash cards or from their teachers. They are reading their bedtime stories online instead of in bed with their parents or with their brother / sister. Slowly traditions are being broken and the computer is becoming a child’s learning tool. Many parents are buying computer learning games instead of board games, books or even flashcards.
Parents are leaving the learning up to the computers and spending less quality time with their children, no physical interactions or anything. The most important learning step for children is interaction with others the physical or emotional interactions from the members of their family. If they are sitting in front of the screen all day, they do not learn to share, wait their turn, or even something as simples as manners. Children need to be in contact with other children, adults, animals and with the environment. They need to experience things first hand not off a computer screen, they have to play outside, play in the mud with other kids, experience negative things and learn from it. “Experience is the best Teacher” that’s what my English teacher remind us when I was on my senior year on my high school and I believe it’s true.
Children are learning to read and write with computer games instead of homemade flash cards or from their teachers. They are reading their bedtime stories online instead of in bed with their parents or with their brother / sister. Slowly traditions are being broken and the computer is becoming a child’s learning tool. Many parents are buying computer learning games instead of board games, books or even flashcards.
Parents are leaving the learning up to the computers and spending less quality time with their children, no physical interactions or anything. The most important learning step for children is interaction with others the physical or emotional interactions from the members of their family. If they are sitting in front of the screen all day, they do not learn to share, wait their turn, or even something as simples as manners. Children need to be in contact with other children, adults, animals and with the environment. They need to experience things first hand not off a computer screen, they have to play outside, play in the mud with other kids, experience negative things and learn from it. “Experience is the best Teacher” that’s what my English teacher remind us when I was on my senior year on my high school and I believe it’s true.
2 comments:
you are right! internet can be another way of learning for kids. but, they should learn the other hand of learning. like, what you said "experience is the best teacher.." kids should explore the outside world not only the cyberspace, because they can learn a lot more than what the internet could give them.
True. There are more kids in computer rental shops nowadays than in playgrounds or parks. Videogames have made kids lazier than ever.
Before, when kids wanted to have fun, they would just go to the playground to play with other kids. This is good because they get exercise. But now, there are more obese sickly kids because of the less physical nature of videogames.
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