The life of modern man is no longer imaginable without such things as a tablet, phone, computer. Children, watching the life of adults, from diapers begin to be interested in gadgets: if mom and dad pay so much attention to these things, it means they are really interesting.
On the one hand, modern technology helps children develop their attention, fine motor skills, and contributes to their intellectual development. On the other hand, they often take up a lot of time, which, as a result, is not enough for active classes and entertainment.
Gadgets are a part of technical progress. Computer and Internet technologies are as much a part of modern life as refrigerator, subway, plane and others. Their purpose is to help you work and rest in comfort.
Gadgets are developmental tools and learning aides. Electronic devices are capable of storing an entire library. E-book helps your child to get new knowledge, as well as familiar paper. Also, you do not need to carry a heavy selection of books from the library and back. It is enough to download the book of interest from the Internet.
If we look at what goes on in our institution during recess, we find that 60% of middle school students are “sitting” on their phones. Today’s children have almost stopped using beautiful speech to communicate, schoolchildren’s speech becomes brief, children borrow words from chat rooms, blogs, and abbreviate sentences.
More recently, the use of computers in the educational process for school was a novelty and not available to everyone, but now the school curriculum almost universally involves compulsory recourse to Internet resources for the mastering of many subjects. Throughout the world, schools are in a hurry to equip their classrooms with computers. In our country there is even experience of teaching 3-4 year olds to use computers. In addition to computers, there are projectors and interactive whiteboards in classrooms.
Of course, without computers and the Internet we can no longer imagine modern life. Psychologists say that it is at an early age a person can absorb the maximum amount of information. And the computer gives a tremendous opportunity for this.
Using a variety of computer programs, including games, and the Internet develop:
- imagination and spatial imagination;
- memory and attention;
- logical thinking: the ability to find dependencies and regularities, to classify and systematize the material, the ability to predict the results of your actions;
- desire to learn new things;
- the ability to quickly find information.
Schoolboy learns the world in all its diversity and with the help of the Internet gets knowledge beyond the school curriculum, but also easily expands the circle of communication with the help of social networks and blogs. A personal computer has become an indispensable aid in solving various tasks. Today even cab drivers use gadgets to take and fulfill orders.
How do gadgets affect children’s development and how safe is the fascination with them?
Considering how necessary it really is for a school-age child to use gadgets, the following arguments can be briefly highlighted:
The positive impact of gadgets.
- Parents see gadgets as assistants – inexpensive electronic babysitters. Advanced parents believe that with the help of gadgets will make children more developed and facilitate their adaptation to the digital world
- The usefulness of gadgets can not be underestimated. Touch screens, buttons and joysticks develop fine motor skills and logical thinking. Using a device, a child learns to analyze and focus attention, trains visual and aural perception.
- With the help of a modern gadget schoolboy can quickly find the information he needs, speeding up the learning process due to the saved time.
- A child can independently learn foreign languages, for which developed a mass of tutorials and applications.
- With a tablet you can download educational programs.
- Using a gadget allows you to develop systematization skills, observation, visual and auditory perception. Negative impact of gadgets. Doctors, educators and psychologists believe that gadgets can cripple a child’s psyche and slow down his development.