How Media Literacy Affects Children in North America
Humans have the capability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in different ways. Nowadays, media literacy is for experts an important and necessary source that people have available every day to learn different subjects in this new technological environment (National Asociation Par1). Media literacy has a huge effect on children because it is used to help them to make a distinction between reality and fantasy, and to distinguish media violence and real-life violence, media heroes and real-life heroes, and media role models and real-life roles and expectations (Media Education 18). Developments in communication have been increasing each day. Children are living in a …show more content…
Nowadays children are connected to internet using their tablets and smartphones. According to Clinton, more than 90% of all American children have an online history (Par 3). Children are connected on Internet more time than the time with their parents. In the future, Internet may change their emotional and cognitive development, due to the fact that children spend huge time on it (Clinton and Steyer 3). A positive impact of Internet is that children improve their knowledge while they are enjoying in the internet browsing. It browsing also helps children to improve their reading (Virginia Department of Education …show more content…
More and more games have been appeared for all tastes. The evolution of games is incredible, companies have been improving the reality of the games, making them so realistic that children love to play. Games exist for all ages. However, children are able to play games that are not allowed for them because of the killing of people or animals, the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, criminal behavior, disrespect for authority and the law, sexual exploitation and violence toward women, racial, sexual, and gender stereotypes, foul language, obscenities, and obscene gestures violence that could exist in it (The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2). Some games has available online connection, and it could mean some risk for children that don’t have parental advisory because of the contact by chat that children could have with unknown people.
According to experts, games can be dangerous because of the violence. However, also can promote an extensive variety of cognitive skills. In shooter games such as: Battlefield, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto IV, children can develop spatial skills, attentional resources more efficiently and filter out irrelevant information more effectively (Granic
Humans have the capability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in different ways. Nowadays, media literacy is for experts an important and necessary source that people have available every day to learn different subjects in this new technological environment (National Asociation Par1). Media literacy has a huge effect on children because it is used to help them to make a distinction between reality and fantasy, and to distinguish media violence and real-life violence, media heroes and real-life heroes, and media role models and real-life roles and expectations (Media Education 18). Developments in communication have been increasing each day. Children are living in a …show more content…
Nowadays children are connected to internet using their tablets and smartphones. According to Clinton, more than 90% of all American children have an online history (Par 3). Children are connected on Internet more time than the time with their parents. In the future, Internet may change their emotional and cognitive development, due to the fact that children spend huge time on it (Clinton and Steyer 3). A positive impact of Internet is that children improve their knowledge while they are enjoying in the internet browsing. It browsing also helps children to improve their reading (Virginia Department of Education …show more content…
More and more games have been appeared for all tastes. The evolution of games is incredible, companies have been improving the reality of the games, making them so realistic that children love to play. Games exist for all ages. However, children are able to play games that are not allowed for them because of the killing of people or animals, the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, criminal behavior, disrespect for authority and the law, sexual exploitation and violence toward women, racial, sexual, and gender stereotypes, foul language, obscenities, and obscene gestures violence that could exist in it (The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2). Some games has available online connection, and it could mean some risk for children that don’t have parental advisory because of the contact by chat that children could have with unknown people.
According to experts, games can be dangerous because of the violence. However, also can promote an extensive variety of cognitive skills. In shooter games such as: Battlefield, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto IV, children can develop spatial skills, attentional resources more efficiently and filter out irrelevant information more effectively (Granic