CAT # 5

 

     According to Larry Rosen’s passage he states that he is a strong advocate of children using technology such as Internet and mobile devices to do their school work. He also states these types of technology works best with preteens and teens as a teaching tool. However he also knows that children spend too much time plugged in and this can led children to have health problems like obesity but he has come up with a formula to help balance this problem out. I disagree with the Dr Rosen’s point of view that children cannot be denied the use of technology just because it helps them develop and grow.

         I strongly believe that all this types of technology are ruining our children in the way they interact with each other, the down grading of their writing skills and lack of outdoor activities drop. Children no longer interact like the way we did when we were children. Nowadays children no longer care if they are around other children or if any contact with each other. Interaction has become very limited and impersonal. When I was a kid one of the things that I enjoyed the most was having that physical contact with all my friends I couldn’t way to talk about what had happen in the school.  

    Today children seem to be writing all the time, but are they really writing? Yes they are writing in a way that doesn’t teach them to write in the proper way because most of the messages that children receive and send are not full sentences rather they write with code and most of the words are abbreviated. I don’t think these children are going to become good writers.

    For as long I can remember children use to spend so much time outside playing with their friends and we never saw the amount of obese children as we do today. Why play basketball outside when you can play sitting down on your couch. When teens play outside they learn techniques that are involved in all types of sports. By playing outside sometimes is the only way you can learn how to play a game also by trying and falling is the way children learn and grow up healthy and we a positive attitude.  When children play games at home they don’t learn consequence to the actions.

Technology is here to stay with us for their remainder of our children lives and beyond.  We cannot stop our children from using it for their school work however it is important to allow our children the use of this technology with some limitations. Sometime simple ways of learning can also be effective tool to learn