...a survey that was conducted on parents’ with children ages 7-13 and their knowledge about their children’s use of the Internet. The paper looks at ways in which parents feel that their children can be protected on the internet. It also explores the fears that parents have about their children being exposed to the internet, and their rationales. The research findings highlight the importance of children's internet protection in relation to the role of parents. The major limitation that this research was faced with was the sample size, as it does not adequately represent the actual population sampled. This paper contributes to the field of study as regards the role the internet plays in the lives of children, the perception of their parents and how to protect them from the dangers of the internet. TABLE OF CONTENT * Introduction ………………………………………………………… 4 * Literature Review …………………………………………………… 5 - 7 * Advantages & Disadvantages of the Internet on Children…………. 8 * Methodology ………………………………………………………….. 9 * Limitation of Study …………………………………………………... 9 * Findings ………………………………………………………………. 9 - 12 * Summary of Survey Result ………………………………………........ 12 * Recommendation ……………………………………………………... 13 * Conclusion …………………………………………………………….. 13 * References ……………………………………………………………... 14 * Appendix ……………………………………………………………… 15 - 17 INTRODUCTION The nature of children's internet use generates public anxieties which both guide...
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...4/9/2016 The Custom Writings | Are Children Smarter Because of the Internet? The Custom Writings | Are Children Smarter Because of the Internet? Introduction The advent of the Internet elicited both support and reservations almost in equal measure. The debate has gone a notch higher in particular over its use among children. The Internet can be regarded as an essential element in virtually all aspects of life and children have not been left out (Cho and Cheon, 2005; Jackson, Von Eye, Fitzgerald, Witt, and Zhao, 2011). Modern children and the adolescents represent the first generation that has grown surrounded by the Internet technology. This can be compared to the children of the 1920s and 1950s who grew up surrounded by the buzz of the radio and television respectively (Bremer, 2005). In this era of advanced technology, it is almost mandatory that school going children acquire the knowledge on internet use because education curricula are quickly transforming towards technology use. Furthermore, with the widespread use of techrelated gadgets in almost all activities, such as mobile phones, play stations and many others in day to day life, it seems embracing of technology is a foregone conclusion (Valkenburg & Soeters, 2003). This paper will aspire to explore the question on whether children are smarter or more socialized due to the Internet. Internet Use among Children The use of internet among children today is ranked in the same category with watching television or using the phone...
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...April, 2015 Should the Children Not Use the Internet? The Internet has revolutionized communication and interaction, among other aspects in the contemporary culture. In particular, the use of Internet has made it possible to have access to different information and interaction with people all over the world, and access to other products such as videos and games. However, Children use of Internet has been a concern among parents and other adults for years. It is common to come across journal articles researching the Internet on how the use of Internet has led to increase in obesity in children, addiction to pornography, and other crimes that have made many scholars to investigate how they can reduce the negative impact Internet has on life of children. To this end, in this essay it is argued that children should not use the Internet because there is no awareness about the influence of the technology directed to children, the Internet-based interventions do not reduce depression symptoms among children, and it will save them from sexual exploitation. The overuse of Internet has created depression among different people. There are interventions that have been structured to help people in dealing with the depression without the need of using face-to-face interventions. Although there are studies on this interventions, there are no studies that synthesis the effectiveness of this interventions in dealing with depression. A study examined the use of Internet-based interventions in...
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...Impact of the Internet on Today’s Youth Jennifer L Benca Columbus State University Author Note CRJU 3155 – Summer 2014 Impact of the Internet on Today’s Youth The Internet is an amazing invention that is used by billions of people worldwide. It allows people from all walks of life all over the world to be connected. Use of the Internet is growing at an unbelievable rate. So fast parents are not always able to keep up with it. The Internet is a great resource to people of all ages, but with that it brings some negative. The Internet can have a huge impact on the youth of today. How it impacts this very vulnerable group of people will be explored in this paper. What Is The Internet? Before we can establish how, we must first explore what. Before the invention of the Internet, nothing had the same capabilities. Inventions such as the telegraph, the telephone, the radio and the computer, helped to prepare the world for what was to come. None of these can even begin to reach the number of people and amount of information as the Internet. The Internet Society says that the Internet allows people to communicate with no consideration to their physical location. The Internet allows us to transmit information and communicate with others throughout the world. (Leiner et al., n.d.). The first host computer was connected in September 1969. Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) installed the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) at the University of California, Los Angeles...
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...1. Children, adolescents, and the Internet: A new field of inquiry in developmental psychology. Greenfield, Patricia; Yan, Zheng Developmental Psychology, Vol 42(3), May 2006, 391-394. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.3.391 Special Section: Children, Adolescents, and the Internet. http://www.cdmc.ucla.edu/PG_Media_biblio_files/gy-2006_1.pdf In this article Greenfield and Yan survey the new field of inquiry to understand how today’s generation i.e. children and adolescents live in a complex universe of virtual technology. The author used six empirical articles to show various aspects of children and adolescent development in this massive and virtual universe. The major themes of article of this new are: communication on Internet, cognitive development, academic achievements and Internet. This article is useful to my research topic, as it includes and gives information about the impact of Internet on children. This article samples both the positive and negative aspect of the virtual world where children are more focused and increasingly living. This article is useful to supplement the information for my research. 2. Impact of Media on Children and Adolescents: A 10-Year Review of the Research SUSAN VILLANI, M.D. http://www.lionlamb.org/research_articles/01C392.pdf This article deals with the research regarding the impact of the media upon children within past 10 years. Different media categories are researched with computer technology. It has focused on the viewing patterns...
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...To Internet And Beyond A Study About The Effects Of The Internet On Children Santos, Divine Agnes DS. BS Business Management 8:30-10:00 am In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English10 Prof. Cynthia Sanguyu University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga ABSTRACT This study is all about how the Internet affects the children. The researcher focused on the effects of the Internet in the development of children physically, socially, cognitively, and emotionally. This study also tackles about how the digital and modern media can influence the children in both positive and negative ways. It also shows solutions to the hazards of using the Internet. By reading this paper, a reader may be guided on how to use the Internet properly and may be informed on what will be the consequences if it will not be used properly. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Living in the modern century, everything instant is what almost everyone prefers. One of these instants of the modern technology is the Internet which children most likely to use. That is why the researcher chose “The Effects of the Internet on Children” as her topic because she wants to know what the Internet can offer for the children. She wonders why almost all the children would like to use the Internet. She also wants to know if the knowledge that the Internet offers helps in the physical, social, cognitive and emotional development of children or if it just lead to simple or serious hazards to...
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...The Impact Of The Internet On Our Daily Life Introduction: There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with everyday. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely “the” medium of the future. Therefore we thought that it would be necessary to think about some god and bad aspects of how this medium influences us, what impacts it has on our social behaviour and what the future will look like. Content: Advantages i) The Internet changed our life enormously concerning the usage. You can use the Internet at home for personal or you at work for professional usage. Let’s come to the first. To spend a part of our day on the Internet is for many people quite normal. They use this kind of medium to get information about all kinds topics. Maybe some of them are interested in chatting, probably they are members of a community. Whatever you are looking for, you will find it. Even if you want to have very specific information, you will find it in a short time. Normally, you often have to send a letter, than you have to wait for the reception of the reply, or you have to make some telephone calls and so on. In any case, the traditional way is the longer one. To put your own information on the Internet is also possible. Create your own homepage, tell other users about your interests, what you want,...
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...passed the Children's Internet Protection Act and the Neighborhood Internet Protection Act. “The law places restrictions on the use of federal funding to support libraries if the libraries do not implement both Internet safety policies and implement filters for certain objectionable material which can be accessed over the Internet” (Online Libraries & Microcomputers, 2001). In other words congress wants to control the people of the United States and what they look at online, in a public place. If congress passed this law, it would impact research for education, personal, and professional use. Additionally, this is unethical because the US government should not impose control over what the public has access to on the internet. The United States Government wants to use information technology in public places to monitor the people by what they look at online. By doing so, institutions like public libraries or public schools would have difficulties in completing research due to the restrictions placed by the US Government. Many people go to libraries to use the computers provided to the public to complete research, write papers, or log on to the internet. Less fortunate people that cannot afford a computer or the internet, would be impacted the most. Someone who has a computer and access to internet at home would be able to look up anything they wanted without having restrictions. By only implementing this law at public libraries, how would this stop children from looking up negative...
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...Applied Developmental Psychology 22 (2001) 7 ± 30 The impact of computer use on children's and adolescents' development Kaveri Subrahmanyama,*, Patricia Greenfieldb, Robert Krautc, Elisheva Grossb a Child and Family Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA b University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA c Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Abstract In recent years, electronic games, home computers, and the Internet have assumed an important place in our lives. This paper presents a review of the research on the impact of home computer use on the development of children and adolescents. Time use data are presented along with a discussion of factors such as age, gender, and ethnicity, which impact the time spent on computers as well as the activities engaged in. Research on the impact of computer use on cognitive skill and academic development, social development and relationships, and perceptions of reality and violent behavior is reviewed. The special role of the Internet in the lives of adolescents is brought out using data from the HomeNet study. The paper concludes with recommendations for future study in order to better understand the growing impact of computers on our youth. D 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Children; Computers; Internet I really want to move to Antarctica Ð I'd want my cat and Internet access and I'd be happy. ±16 year old HomeNet participant...
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...example, portable Internet, cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, 3D TVs among others (Clinton 24). Technology appears to possess a lot of detriments; however, it also has a more positive impact on the society. In some of the situation, Internet has negative consequences when it comes to sociability. Therefore, this paper aims at informing the reader about both negative and positive impacts of technology on teenagers. Specifically, the research focuses on how teens use it to share information, raise their grievances, and how it helps them in their academic process. About negative impacts, it will be imperative to center the research on how technology causes violence, social barrier, health issues, and addiction as well as dependence. According to Clinton, a journalist at the CNN investigates the explosive growth of the social media and Internet. Clinton relays on his knowledge and numerous statistics to develop his argument about the use and impact of technology on teenagers and children. Clinton also acknowledges the massive growth of technological gadgets such as Smartphones. The author says that one of the immense impacts of technology on teens is the use of the Internet that offers numerous positive opportunities. Primarily, the Internet makes information sharing simple and faster despite the instances where it could potentially prohibit such distribution (Clinton 24). With the Internet, the teenagers can transfer useful information that in return impacts their lives positively...
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...example, portable Internet, cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, 3D TVs among others (Clinton 24). Technology appears to possess a lot of detriments; however, it also has a more positive impact on the society. In some of the situation, Internet has negative consequences when it comes to sociability. Therefore, this paper aims at informing the reader about both negative and positive impacts of technology on teenagers. Specifically, the research focuses on how teens use it to share information, raise their grievances, and how it helps them in their academic process. About negative impacts, it will be imperative to center the research on how technology causes violence, social barrier, health issues, and addiction as well as dependence. According to Clinton, a journalist at the CNN investigates the explosive growth of the social media and Internet. Clinton relays on his knowledge and numerous statistics to develop his argument about the use and impact of technology on teenagers and children. Clinton also acknowledges the massive growth of technological gadgets such as Smartphones. The author says that one of the immense impacts of technology on teens is the use of the Internet that offers numerous positive opportunities. Primarily, the Internet makes information sharing simple and faster despite the instances where it could potentially prohibit such distribution (Clinton 24). With the Internet, the teenagers can transfer useful information that in return impacts their lives positively...
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...Raising children is a very complex task not everyone can do it, and when the environment is getting wider, this task is getting more difficult of what can be received from the ideas and behaviors, and in the era of globalization the environment has become the whole world, for which the difference in religions and cultures. This openness, the multitude of technologies, satellite television, and the many cultures and suspicions young people became living today is at a crossroads and under the influence of these variables is no doubt that it causes them a lot of educational and ethical problems. TV and World Wide Web (Internet) have made an important change in the communities and provided an important means of communication and made the world...
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...those who are either unable to access the internet are increased disadvantage in their access to information. In most western nations government policies are being established which attempt to ensure that all citizens have the opportunity to access and effectively use the internet, in order to enable them to participate fully in the educational, social and economic activities. While it can be argued that several factors contribute to the digital divide, economics appears to be the biggest contributing factors for access to the Digital Opportunity Index. The Introduction to Digital Literacy, explains the digital divide as related to threat that results from groups of underprivileged people not having access to computers and the internet. According to Bowles, 2013, the fact that some people have easy access to the benefits computers provide; while many others are cut off from them, is considered an ethical issue. The information rich are on one side, and those who are poor, living in underdeveloped countries, or who live in a rural area with no internet access on the other side. The number of homes in the United States with personal computers has risen significantly, in 1990 it was 22%, this increased in 2004, and nearly 75% of all Americans had internet access in their homes, (Bowles,2013, Section 1.3). While this number is high and expected to grow, there are still a significant number of people without computers and internet access; and they are getting left behind...
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...relatively new in terms of its prevalence with children. As many parents are not as up-to-date with the latest gadgets, they tend to have little knowledge on the possible effects technology might bring. But technology, while useful, brings many negative effects to teens' lives. Parents who have technophile kids should be aware of the possible risks and dangers. Predators Informed parents know that the media blows the prevalence of online sexual predators out of proportion. However, they do exist, and they often go after easy targets, namely children. Technology such as the Internet and smart phones give both children and predators the ability to make contact with large amounts of new people. Uninformed children might feel they are making a friend but in fact are running the risk of being preyed upon. The key risk here, though, is not the predator but the lack of adult knowledge about technology and the lack of supervision parents give to their children’s online behaviors. Parents who feel bad prying into their children’s lives are ignoring the fact that most children, especially teens, are sexually curious, willing to take risks, and have poor decision-making behaviors. So, while not common, sexual predators do exist and should be something parents talk to their kids about before allowing them full reign online. Mental Health Problems Clinical coordinator at Illinois Addiction Recovery Shannon Chrismore wrote in the book, “Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation...
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...Use of Phones by School Children Name: Institution: Children should not use phones at school The recent rise in cheap mobile phones technology has led the usability of phones by young kids to rise suddenly in the modern world. The phones can be obtained at a cheaper price that the parents can afford to purchase for their kids. Children carry these phones to school and use them for other purposes that are evil (Kamibeppu, 2007). Due to peer pressure and contribution of other factors such lack of maturity, the children often find themselves in a position to misbehave with phones when they are together. The phenomenon has attracted many scholars who have tried to explore the topic. The other reason the children should not use phones at schools is that they are too young to be exposed to the internet technology (Kamibeppu, 2007). Using the internet to explore by young children is unhealthy since they lack the necessary self-control to differentiate between what is good and what is bad. The internet also is very addictive and children can spend even a whole day browsing up to the limit that they cannot do their homework. The internet contains all kind of information and facilities that people can access for free. The internet has no control on what persons by their age should access. Due to peer pressure and lack of ability to reason the children can access wrong information in the form of videos, texts and images. Children can influence each other to watch...
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