Technology as we know it today has brought us
tremendous benefits in many sectors, including the education that our youth
desperately need. Although it has also impacted our children's ability to learn
or pay attention to their school development. If you want to learn more about
how technology affects minors, read on.
When ease can stop self-help
The technological world has ceased to be a
dream and has become a reality. With some devices that we may have in our home,
we only need to ask the question out loud for the machine to give us the
answer, without having to look for the answer in a book or even on a computer.
Who doesn't have a mobile phone? All adults
and most young people have it from an early age. This allows them to keep in
touch with their parents and other family members, but also seriously affects
their learning.
For an adult who has lived outside of the
technology we know, although he may feel a certain dependence on new devices,
he has learned to function without them. In addition, if they ceased to exist,
an adult could return to decades past when a smartphone was unthinkable. On the
other hand, for millennials, the sudden disappearance of technology devices can
present an internal conflict, sometimes insurmountable.
We are not exaggerating when we say that
today's youth would not be able to live without a mobile phone. They grew up on
digital technology and embraced it as part of themselves. Watching social media
disappear would do something terrible to them.
Benefits of technology for youth
Before we can see the negative effects of
technology on your children, we must acknowledge the positives and how they
helped many young people who knew how to use them correctly.
In short, everything that moves through the
Internet can benefit us if we know how to use it correctly. The problem arises
when there is no control over the sites that our children browse, and if they
cannot set a restriction on the use of, for example, their mobile phones.
Undoubtedly, having the Internet at home means
savings in the household, especially in education. We must remember decades
ago, even before the Internet was in the hands of almost everyone, that when
you needed to view a book, you had to visit the library. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we have electronic libraries and encyclopedias on the Internet, so
much so that they save us on buying books, in addition to the time required to
visit the public library.
We must also consider the proliferation of
online learning, which is becoming cheaper compared to face-to-face training.
But, according to many analysts, it turned out to be not as effective as
expected.
In recent decades, there has been a need to
simplify learning. You can verify this by looking at a textbook from the 90s
and comparing it with the current one. We will see how the texts have been
shortened to give way to diagrams, which do not always provide enough
information to properly justify the question.
Continuing to talk about the positive aspects
of technology, it is necessary to see the benefits that they had for children
with psychomotor problems. In addition, for the most shy, it is a great help in
communication. This, in turn, contributes to the acquisition of an
international culture, because you not only meet people from the same region,
but you can also maintain friendships that arise on social networks, despite
the fact that the interlocutors are thousands of miles away.
Shy boys who find it difficult to express
themselves, with Asperger Syndrome or even handicapped, find a way to express
themselves through technology and the Internet. And this makes life easier for
them when they are born surrounded by it from all sides.
In each of them, you use the Internet for
good. It is true that many young and old alike use the Internet to expand their
knowledge and even prepare for work, as it makes it easier for us to take
courses and get new jobs.
The problem arises when technology becomes
addictive and not only fails to help our young people improve their quality of
life, but only makes it worse.
Damage added to technological progress
We've seen incredible improvements in device
quality over the past decade. This improvement could be a breakthrough for the
benefit of all people, or at least it has always been intended.
If we analyze this in detail by assessing the
benefits of the young people we mentioned earlier, there were no doubt many
benefits. But to this we must add the consequences of being driven by a world
full of leisure, thanks to technology, and not being in full control of what
our children do.
Attention deficit was a very common problem in
a significant percentage of young children. This has happened for several
reasons, including a higher incidence among young people with hyperactivity,
and an increase in the incidence of high-performance or functional autism.
Unfortunately, young people's attachment to social media has caused attention
deficits, which, although different from the rest of the cases presented, can
be easily corrected by limiting the use of mobile devices. But it's not always
that easy, expressly if we live in the digital age.
If we look at the changes that have taken
place in education over the past decade, we see a much lower level than 20
years ago. We cannot deny the controversy surrounding the educational system
and how it is gradually reducing academic demand.
On the other hand, our children are educated
through technology and its use. This has a simple reasoning, as the work ahead
of them seems to force them to use the computer and keep up with the social
media that most people do. The downside is that it is because of this that
young people pay less attention to their assessments and more to the Internet.
The Internet is too complex a world for many
millennial parents. It cannot be denied that most children understand new
technology better than their parents. Sometimes they seem like geniuses, but
most of them do not use this knowledge to continue their studies and learning.
Only a smaller choose to take a step beyond vacation and become professionals
in one of the many fields that digital technology offers.
Young people today talk about technology as an
addiction that will soon be included in psychiatry books for treatment. This
new "drug" works for many, just like those that we have known for
years. This can be unspoken as a kind of game that keeps young people on the
hook, constantly hoping for momentary profits. Unlike the one in which players
looked for economic incentive, this time around young people crave recognition,
often in the form of likes or more followers.
Obviously, you can't miss the case studies
that drive the success of bloggers and YouTube users who claim to make good
money just by telling their stories. This attracts our children, so it won't
surprise you that many young people are putting off their studies to try to
make easy money.
There are too many temptations that children
watch over the Internet, and we, as parents, can hardly control them, because
they ultimately know better about the use of mobile devices and social
networks.
However, poor academic performance, worse
problem-solving than 20-year-olds, and inconsistencies in their day-to-day
responsibilities are some of the challenges technology has brought to our
children. This gives the impression that they have not matured as much as we
saw ourselves at their age. Although there are success stories on the Internet,
they continue to be counted due to the great competition that exists on the
Internet.
Advantages and disadvantages are normal for
all aspects of children's learning, especially as it relates to this digital
age in which we live. We cannot deny all the progress that we have made in just
the last decade. We have information in the palm of our hand, literally
speaking, just by browsing from our mobile phone.
Young people, who are better at technology
than their elders, have not been able to avoid access to the Internet and fall
under the influence of all the leisure options offered to them. For most, it
hurt their academic background and even affected their social relationships and
their maturity, given the challenges of living together. On the other hand,
those who knew how to deal with it found a path to success, but there are very
few of them.
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