Education in America today is taking a dramatic turn in technological reform. New equipment has been introduced into vast majority of elementary classrooms such as iPads, televisions, computers, phones, etc. with new technology entering education, screen time has negatively affect children education. In addition, technology has taken a negative turn, limiting the ability to learn and shorten children social skills. Screen time has a powerful effect on children compared with five years ago. In elementary classrooms today technology is inevitable as they are introduced to the technology. Screen time have made it difficult for children to learn because the attention towards the technological device is difficult to separate.
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In relations to fatal social skills, screen time, increase violence which leads to risky behaviors. As kids get older, impressive amount of violence views can interfere with activities becoming being physically active, reading, doing homework, playing with friends, and spending time with family. The average American child will witness 200,000 violent acts on television by age 18. (KidsHealth) With the numerous views of violence, kids may become desensitized to violence and aggression. From a child perspective, they are being taught how to become violent without realizing it. Violence sometimes begs for imitation because it promotes fun and an effective way to get what you want. In most cases, the good guy could be an indignity to which kids have been taught to admire. For example, parents teach their kids that it’s not right to hit, but television says it’s okay to bite, hit, or kick if you’re the good guy, and the bad guys aren’t always held responsible or punished for their actions. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics website, children between the ages of 2 and 18 spend an average of three hours each day watching television. A three-year National Television Study, reported by the AAP, found that children’s shows had the most violence of all television programming. Statistics read that some cartoons average twenty acts of violence in one hour, and that by the age of 18 children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence on television. Young people are especially in jeopardy of the negative effects of television violence because “many younger children cannot discriminate between what they see and what is real.” (Live Strong) This can lead
To begin with, …show more content…
In relations to fatal social skills, screen time, increase violence which leads to risky behaviors. As kids get older, impressive amount of violence views can interfere with activities becoming being physically active, reading, doing homework, playing with friends, and spending time with family. The average American child will witness 200,000 violent acts on television by age 18. (KidsHealth) With the numerous views of violence, kids may become desensitized to violence and aggression. From a child perspective, they are being taught how to become violent without realizing it. Violence sometimes begs for imitation because it promotes fun and an effective way to get what you want. In most cases, the good guy could be an indignity to which kids have been taught to admire. For example, parents teach their kids that it’s not right to hit, but television says it’s okay to bite, hit, or kick if you’re the good guy, and the bad guys aren’t always held responsible or punished for their actions. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics website, children between the ages of 2 and 18 spend an average of three hours each day watching television. A three-year National Television Study, reported by the AAP, found that children’s shows had the most violence of all television programming. Statistics read that some cartoons average twenty acts of violence in one hour, and that by the age of 18 children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence on television. Young people are especially in jeopardy of the negative effects of television violence because “many younger children cannot discriminate between what they see and what is real.” (Live Strong) This can lead