...The effect of television on a childs attention span Samantha Martin COM/156 May 6, 2012 Jodi Galvan Axia College of the University of Phoenix The effect of television on a childs attention span In watching my 13-year-old daughter, and constantly trying to get her to complete the simplest of tasks such as loading the dishwasher. I have often wondered if watching too much television has anything to do with her inability to complete the smallest of tasks. Some people think that children who watch too much television are likely to develop ADHD; however, it may be the opposite. The child who is prone to Attention problems may be drawn to watching television to sooth their minds (New Scientist, 2007). Is it possible that children too watch much television? According to Eric Landhuis of the University of Otago, children should not watch more than two hours of television per day (New Scientist, 2007). More than two hours of television can lead to attention problems in adolescence. Children who watched more than three hours of television had above average symptoms of ADHD (New Scientist, 2007). Rapid scene changes can over stimulate the brain. Recently their was a controversial news story on how the rapid scene changes in the cartoon Sponge Bob Square pants on the network Nickelodeon over stimulated the young brain of children under the age of six. The over stimulation can make real life seem boring. Landhuis goes on to say, “children who watch...
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...people. These three advantages will contribute to my success, because it gave me my social savviness. According to The Trouble with Geniuses Part 2, parents being more involved with their children’s education and extracurricular teaches their children to be accustomed to their environment, the ability to communicate with adults making them less afraid of authority, and giving them a sense of “entitlement.” This relates to me, because my parents are involved with my life, and it caused me to be accustomed to any environment I endure. Disadvantages/Oppressions: I believe my primary disadvantages are: my low attention span, and lack of time management for school work. Ever since I was a kid, I always struggled with giving my undivided attention to my homework. I would get distracted by the most little things, and end up finishing my homework late at night. My low attention span ties in with my lack of time management. Since I am constantly distracted, I...
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...Kelly Vick Synthesis Essay The Effect that Television has had on The Delivery of News Today our world is dominated by technology. With the use of it people can access the weather and breaking news in a matter of seconds. This information is available to us in the palms of our hands. For the most part people think that this is great, but there are others who are skeptical and believe that technology and the multimedia has a negative effect on society. In Neil Postman's book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death", he describes the consequences of living in a society that is dominated by television and the multimedia. Postman (1985) believes news on television is uninformative and only used for entertainment, however, Matt Quayle and Paul Grabowicz both believe the news on television is informative and is improving greatly. In chapter 6 of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Postman (1985) takes us on a journey through the history of technology. First Postman (1985) makes the distinction between a technology and a medium. A technology is merely a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates. Postman (1985) speaks about the different uses we have for the television, such as a lamp, bookshelf, or even a radio. But in other places or countries the television is not as nearly as important to the people as it is to Americans. Postman (1985) believes that television provides the explanation for a world obsessed with image to the detriment of content. He argues that...
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...Social Media Affect Mohamad Badaoui Devry University PHIL-447: Logic and Critical Thinking April 5, 2016 Abstract Social does have its positive affects on behavior and it is a great tool, however, it does have plenty of negative affects on behavior. A lot of people now days, have lost their sense of personality, sense of humor, and cannot interact the same way because of what social media had done to them. I have seen people basically develop different personalities because of social media. Over social media they act a certain way, but when they are face-to-face they are completely different people. This is largely due to people expressing their feelings and emotions behind their phones, but when it comes time to do so verbally, they cannot. Especially the younger generations, people who are about 24 years and younger are so dependent on social media and the Internet. Before technology was so booming, people were not relying on social media, or interactions behind screens as much. That basically explains why older generations are better at face-to-face verbal conversations compared to the younger generations. The younger generations have been exposed to all of this technology such as advanced social media. They are accustomed to it, they communicate through the Internet, but then when it comes to verbal communications in person, younger generations have lost some of their communication skills. They are more socially awkward now a day. I have seen people who do not know...
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...“Weinstein’s The Ethics of Work-Life Balance” In his short essay “The Ethics of Work-Life Balance,” Bruce Weinstein argues that one of the five fundamental ethical principles is fairness. He states that people’s work-to-life imbalance is not fair, both to others and themselves. In the past, as Freud said, work and love were essential components of a happy life, but people overwork in order to feed their family and pay bills, nowadays. He claims that being a good manager should mean being a good human being. This means knowing not only how to manage one’s career, but also one’s life by giving due time to family, friends, community, self, and spirit. I agree with Weinstein’s argument that workers should balance their work-life and social life because an imbalance harms people’s health, produces low quality work, and damages relationships with loved ones. People should have time to work and also a time to leave the work behind. Weinstein is right when he argues that workers should have a balanced work and social life because work-life imbalance harms people’s health. A stressful job can lead to unhappiness that seeps into people’s leisure life and leads to bad health. A recent study showed that people who are stressed out by their jobs have a higher risk for dementia later in life. This is bad news for the American worker, who often has long hours and can often sacrifice his/her work-life balance on the way to climbing to the top of the corporate ladder. Healthline explains that...
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...digital gadgets are making it harder for us to concentrate. The Pew Research Centre in America recently surveyed almost 2,500 teachers and found that 77% thought that the internet had a "mostly positive" impact on students' research work, while 87% felt modern technologies were creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans". But could this simply be the latest variation of 'the Elvis Hypothesis' – because something is new, popular with young people, and challenges existing hierarchies and traditions, it must be bad? Although some UK teachers might be inclined to agree with their American counterparts when faced with a class of restless smartphone-enabled year 10s, there appears to be no conclusive evidence that pupil attention spans are declining. Sue Honoré, an independent learning consultant who co-authored the 2009 report 'Generation Y: Inside Out' with Dr. Carina Paine Schofield, feels that there is still "a big question about how technology is impacting on the way we behave". She studied the behaviours of people born between 1982 and 2002 – particularly how they learn and work – and found "mixed results" in terms of attention spans. While young people are "undoubtedly capable of long periods of concentration", those who spend a lot of time alone using technology "tend to have less in the way of communication skills, self-awareness and emotional intelligence." She adds: "That's not because they don't have the capabilities. But because they are spending...
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...Writing Assignment #3 (Data Analysis/Social media) One widely recognized issue that we face these days is the distraction social networking can be when it comes to education. I mean, if biology class is a total drag you are going to want to find something to entertain yourself with for the time being, right? While I agree that a boring class is not the best thing in the world, the information being taught is much more important than what’s being posted on your Instagram or Twitter feed. According to a post on NBC News’ website regarding research on the connection between the average American teen’s attention span with common distractions such as cell phones, text messaging and social networks, and how it affects grades, approximately 47 percent of American high school or college students have either failed one or more classes due to distractions, furthering my point that too much online social activity can be a harmful distraction. Social network overuse can not only affect your academic life, but also your personal life as well. From my own experience, just about anyone getting too comfortable on social networks can definitely serve as a threat to his or her personal well-being. I’ve witnessed many arguments and disagreements on social media leading to physical altercations between classmates. With so many different mindsets and opinions floating around, it is almost impossible to post something without at least one person disagreeing or feeling personally offended...
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...thast descirbes its nature,scope, and worth in the educational process? Physical education is very important to me because. Physical education can give students an opportunity to take a break from academic study, get some fresh air and clear their head. If they've been listening to teachers, and reading and writing for hours at a time exercise can help wake them up a bit and make them feel more alert so that when they go back to class they are able to concentrate better and take more information in. It is all well and good for teachers to concentrate on cramming as many 'important' lessons into the timetable as possible, but doing so won't necessarily mean students learn more, particularly if they end up getting distracted due to a short attention span. Even if children do not want to do the exercise just walking around talking to friends helps them relax and makes them better students for the rest of classes. 2. You have been invited to speak to the PTO in your community on the topic”The role of physical education in the community”prepared a speech that described the role of physical education and present it to your class. With obesity at an all time high, schools and communities are encouraging students to take part in activities that require physical involvement, be it in the form of exercise or sports. Some rec centers and schools even have their own fitness centers to give students and member of the community a chance to enroll in their active programs. Schools and community...
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...Stages of Development from Early Childhood Through Middle Childhood We can break child development into five separate stages. The stages consist of infancy (birth-2), early childhood (2-6), middle childhood (6-10), early adolescence (10-14), and late adolescence (14-18). For each stage there are different types of developmental achievements that will be reached. This paper will serve as a comparison for the early and middle childhood developmental periods. There will be a detailed comparison of the two age groups for each of the following developmental characteristics: • Physical development • Emotional development • Cognitive development • Intellectual development • Language development • Reading/Writing development • Social development • Interpersonal development Physical Development (Early Childhood) During the early childhood stage children begin to lose their roundish baby like appearance. Their bodies become more proportionate with the lengthening of their arms and legs. They begin to acquire fine motor skills. These newfound skills allow them to grip a pencil in more functional way. This is a good time to provide them with puzzles and blocks, as well as supervising them while they them use scissors and paper. Although it is normal for boys to be more physically active then girls both will show an increase in energy. They will develop more control over their...
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...or how the wall of text existed/was invented. Noobs probably invented, but probably not. Who knows. Walls of texts are usually filled with a lot of useless information and junk. Information and junk can be the same, but only if the information is junk or the junk is information. But who cares. The information/junk inside a wall of text are usually related to wherever the wall of text is located, but the best walls of text, which are actually the most irritating, most eye-bleeding ones, are completely random. Walls of text usually make the reader asplode or have their eyes bleed and fall out of their sockets. A number of people can stand it, but not read them. Actually some people can stand and read them. Those people do not have short attention...
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...into something even more intriguing and veer off in that direction. We often repeat this pattern many times. Before you know it, the search for “tickets to Hawaii” that you started at 8 pm has morphed into a search of “great battleships of the Pacific” by 10 pm…then “movies by Stanley Kubrick” at 11…and so on ad nauseam. Meanwhile, your wife is angry because you promised to help your son with his homework hours ago and everything else you had planned that evening didn’t get done, such as responding to your sister’s text, friending your old college buddy on Facebook, and responding to someone who flamed you in their forum. You may ask yourself, well…how did I get here? In fact, there certainly seems to be some neurological basis for our attention dopiness, or more accurately, dopamine levels. As Lucy Jo Palladino explains in her book Find Your Focus Zone, activities such as watching TV or playing video games activate the basal ganglia of the brain, which releases dopamine. When dopamine levels increase, you’re inclined to do whatever it takes to maintain the “high” they generate, but when the levels decrease, you start to look for something new or a “distraction ” to replace that hit. There’s even a theory floating around the scientific community that argues that ADD evolved from a lineage of hunters (the gatherers, of course, are those less prone to wander — physically and mentally). So the success of Twitter...
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...or how the wall of text existed/was invented. Noobs probably invented, but probably not. Who knows. Walls of texts are usually filled with a lot of useless information and junk. Information and junk can be the same, but only if the information is junk or the junk is information. But who cares. The information/junk inside a wall of text are usually related to wherever the wall of text is located, but the best walls of text, which are actually the most irritating, most eye-bleeding ones, are completely random. Walls of text usually make the reader asplode or have their eyes bleed and fall out of their sockets. A number of people can stand it, but not read them. Actually some people can stand and read them. Those people do not have short attention...
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...in a foreign country, at times of deployment. Several years have passed since I graduated high school and educational advancement was not my first priority. At that time, I had decided to join the United States Armed Forces and serve my country while stationed in Europe. Although I do not regret that decision, I do however regret not attending college directly after high school and having the option to join the service as a commissioned officer. I now decided that going back to school to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Human Recourses Management at Penn Foster College would offer many career opportunities and set an example for my son. Taking online courses has proven to be more difficult than I thought. With my 9 week old son needing my attention most of the day, my husband working extended hours and housework piling up, I do not have the luxury to always have a set schedule allowing me to attend traditional college classes on a campus and in class rooms. My husband tries to be as supportive as he possibly can, while trying to take as much housework as he can off my hands and wakes up to feed the baby at night during the weekends. During the week however, I would like him to come home to a neat and clean house with a cooked meal waiting for him as he walks thru through the front door of our home, so he can fully relax and leave the daily struggles of a...
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...technology on young minds.Technology has become a part of their daily lives.Technology has become a huge distraction for the young generation.They have become so involved with the use of technology that they often tend to forget about the real world and take action without using their minds.Nowadays the young generation also do not have any privacy as they share too much personal information on social media.Due to such extreme use of technology these young people are showing less personal interactions.They do not have enough time for their friends or families.The writer also said that this generation is so obsessed with gadgets and the internet that they are doing bad in their academic oerformances and that the students have very short attention spans.The writer thinks that they should not be so obsessed with technology but enjoy their benefits.I am writing this response paper to show the young generation is misusing technology and I would like to express my agreement on how the people are the ones who use technology in the wrong way, also I would like to express my disagreements on the point on which the author said that technology is taking over their lives and I would also like to offer a few suggestions. The author has mainly targeted the young generation.The young generation consists of teenagers and young...
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...Communication: Overcoming Barriers Christopher J Subbiondo Interpersonal Communication 122 Dr Ticey Hosley PhD November 30, 2009 Communication: Overcoming Barriers Communication is a wonderful and beautiful art. Learning to communicate with others is not an easy task, but once you have mastered it, it becomes much like breathing; it is simply second nature. But like most works of art there are many obstacles to overcome to achieve its full potential. One of those obstacles is what I call communication barriers. There are many examples of communication barriers, most of which we do not even know are there. In the following pages, I will be sharing with you the barriers that block effective communication and how to overcome them to communicate effectively. One of the first things people think of when they think of communication barriers is language. This is generally agreed upon that someone who does not speak the language you speak has a harder time understanding. This is a difficult one to overcome. Time Magazine wrote on November, 26 1956, Nikita Khruschev, The Communist leader of the Soviet Union, addressed the United Nations. His words were misinterpreted and translated as “We will bury you!” This was a time when the Cold War was at large and was believed to be a threat of nuclear annihilation, when in reality he was talking about economic superiority. The easiest answer to this is to arm yourself with knowledge of who you are talking to. By immersing yourself...
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