Communication and solitude of generation how to learn to play the iPad grew up? - TechWeb

Nick Bilton reports from the NYT

Recently, I have witnessed her sister perform magic.

sitting in a restaurant, trying to talk, but her 4-year-old child, Wei Luo (Willow) and 7-year-old child Luca (Luca) refused to stop the dispute. They tirelessly on a fork, and who cup water more squabbling.

like to pull rabbits out of a hat, so that a group of children quiet magician, my sister put his hand in his hand bag, took out two shiny Apple iPad a staff to two children. They suddenly quieted down. That scene is very strange. They were sitting playing games, watching videos, and we continue the conversation.

after

meal, iPad back into the a magical storage bag, this time, my sister, feeling slightly guilty.

“I do not want to give them at the dinner table iPad, but if it allows them to distractions in an hour, so that we can quietly eat and, more importantly, if it can prevent them from disturbing other people in the restaurant. I often will the iPad to them. “she said to me. Then she asked, “Do you think they do so harmful? I am really worried, it will make them identified, then you can casually use of electronic products at the dinner table.”

I do not have the answer, although some people can be able to have their own views, but, no one really scientific study of childhood with how the future of the generation that grew up on a portable screen.

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UCLA (University of California) (Longevity Center), “brain revolution: how the digital age has changed people’s brain and behavior” (iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind) author of the book Gary? Dr. Simo Er (Gary Small), said, “We really do not know the impact of all these technologies Neurology. both children and adults, there are great individual differences, some people longer electronic screen more sensitive. “

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Dr. Simo Er said, we do know that the brain is highly sensitive to stimuli iPad and smartphone screen, if people spent an inordinate amount of time on a technology products, and less likely to interact with other people , such as the table next to the parents, that may hinder the development of a communication skills.

then, a meal children to play with crayons than a children play on the iPad coloring application software have stronger social skills?

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(University of California, the Berkeley) Relationships with Social Cognition Lab (Relationships and Social Cognition Lab) Assistant Professor Ezilaimu? Yi Duke (Ozlem Ayduk) said, holding a book or crayons children sat across the table also does not interact with the people around. She said, “meals for children and others to speak, sometimes is a valuable learning process and iPad or non-electronic items not so much.”

In case of no choice no alternative to the iPad to the child’s parents, at least a child can control the use of such equipment doing.

Last week, a former track was born in 2000 and 2001, 19,000 babies a long-term research organization “Millennials” (Millennium Cohort Study) released a report found that, to these children 7 years old those in a day watching TV, video or DVD more than three hours of children more likely to have behavioral problems, emotional symptoms, and interpersonal problems than children we will never do so. The study sample of 11,000 children found playing in line with signs of ages video game of the same length of time children at the age of 7, but did not show any negative changes in behavior.

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This goes back to the dinner that my niece and nephew here. When they happily sat there, staring at the bright screen, they did not participate in any conversation, there is no staring at a space to think, nothing like to talk to my sister and child parents did when. This is the obvious risk lies.

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research professor of science, technology and social, “alone together scientific and technological expectations: why we expect more of each other less” (Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Sherry? Terkel says Sherry Turkle, author of the book Less From Each Other), “conversation between children’s learning and their own selves, but also their way to learning how to be alone. understand the loneliness and solitude is the early development the foundation want them to be quiet put this device into their hands, not a good thing. “

Terkel interviewed had personal use of electronic devices during the early development stage parents, adolescents and children. She said, the interactive reality often flawed and defective, she worried, do not learn the reality interactive children will only know a perfect bright screen gives them no risk, full of false intimacy of the world.

they need to have the ability to think independently outside the device. She said, “They want to be able to develop their imagination with great courage and self-understanding. In this way, one day, they will be able to build relationships and another person, not alone to panic if you do not teach your child how to be alone, they will only be able to understand the loneliness. “

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