How Technology Has Affected The Little Ones

The technology, as we know it today, has brought us great advantages in many sectors, including education, so necessary for our youth. Although it has also had an impact on our children's ability to learn or pay attention to their school development. If you want to know more about how technology is affecting minors, keep reading.

When ease can stop self-help

The technological world stopped being a dream to become a reality. With certain devices that we can have in our home, we only need to ask a question aloud for a machine to give us the answer, without having to look for the answer in a book, or even on the computer.

Who does not get a mobile phone? All adults and most young people, from an early age, have one. This allows them to be in contact with their parents and other family members, but it also seriously affects their learning.

For an adult who has lived beyond the technology we know now, although he may feel a certain dependence on new devices, he has learned to function without them. Moreover, if these ceased to exist, the adult could return to previous decades, when the smartphone was unthinkable. On the other hand, for a millennial, the sudden disappearance of technological devices could suppose an internal conflict, sometimes insurmountable.

We are not exaggerating when we say that young people today would not know how to live without a mobile phone. They have grown up with digital technology and have embraced it as a part of themselves. Seeing social media disappear would do something terrifying to them.

The benefits of technology for young people

Before seeing the negative repercussions of technology on your children, we must recognize the positive points of it and how they have helped many young people who have known how to use it correctly.

Ultimately, everything that moves through the Internet can benefit us if we know how to use it properly. The problem appears when there is no control of the sites where our children browse and if they cannot set a limit when using, for example, their mobile phones.

Without a doubt, having the Internet at home means savings in the family economy, especially in terms of education. We have to remember decades ago, before the Internet was at the hands of almost everyone, that when there was a need to review a book it was necessary to visit the library. Now, through the web, we have digital libraries and encyclopedias online, so much they save us on buying books, in addition to the time, it would take to go to a public library.

We must also reckon with the proliferation of online teaching, which becomes cheaper compared to face-to-face education. But, according to many analysts, this does not seem to be as effective as expected.

In recent decades it has been necessary to simplify teaching. We can see this if we review a textbook from the 90s and compare it with a current one. We will see how texts have been reduced to give way to schemes, which do not always provide enough information for adequate reasoning of the matter.

Continuing on the positive side of technology, it is necessary to see the advantage it has had in children with psychomotor problems. Also, in the shyest, it is an aid to socialize. This in turn favors the acquisition of international culture, because not only do you meet people from the same region, but you can also maintain friendships arising on social networks, despite the fact that there are thousands of kilometers between the interlocutors.

Shy boys, with trouble expressing themselves, with Asperger's syndrome or even with physical disabilities, find a way of expression thanks to technology and the Internet. And this means is made easier for them when they have been born surrounded by it on all sides.

In each one is using the web for their good. It is true that many young and old use the Internet to expand our knowledge and even to prepare for work since it makes it easier for us to take courses and learn new trades.

The problem arises when technology becomes an addiction and, far from helping our young people to improve their quality of life, it only makes it worse.

Damages along with technological advance

We have seen the quality of devices improve in the last decade in an incredible way. This improvement could be an advance for the benefit of all human beings or, at least, that has always been intended.

If we analyze it in detail, appreciating the benefits of young people that we mentioned before, there have undoubtedly been many advantages. But to these must be added the consequences of leading a world full of leisure, through technology, and not being able to fully control what our children do.

The attention deficit has been a very common problem in a considerable percentage of young children. This has been due to various reasons, among which are a higher rate of cases with young people with hyperactivity, as well as an increase in cases of high-performance or functioning autism. Unfortunately, the attachment of young people to social networks has led to an attention deficit that, although different from the other cases presented, could be easily correctable, limiting the use of mobile devices. But this is not always so simple, especially if it is the digital age in which we live.

If we look at the changes that have taken place in education over the last decade, we can see a level much lower than 20 years ago. We cannot deny the controversy regarding the educational system and how it has progressively reduced the academic requirement.

On the other hand, our children are being educated through technology and its use. This has simple reasoning since the future work that awaits them seems to force them to use a computer and keep up to date on social networks, which most people handle. The downside is that, for this very reason, young people pay less attention to their grades and more to the Internet.

The web is too complex a world for many parents of millennials. There is no denying that most boys have a better understanding of new technologies than their parents. They seem, at times, geniuses, but most do not take advantage of that knowledge to continue learning and training academically. Only a minority chooses to take a step beyond leisure, to become professionals in one of the many areas that digital technology offers.

Today, technology is being talked about in young people as an addiction, which will soon be included in psychiatry books, in order to be treated. This new " drug " for many works like the ones we have known years ago. It could be understood as a kind of gambling, which keeps young people hooked, continuously waiting for a short-term benefit. Unlike the one, in which the players were looking for an economic incentive, on this occasion the youth long for recognition, often in the form of likes or an increase in followers.

Obviously, you cannot miss the cases promoting the successes of bloggers and YouTubers who claim to be earning a good amount of money just by telling their stories. This is an attraction for our children, so you cannot be surprised to see many young people putting aside their studies to try to earn easy money.

There are too many temptations that children observe through the Internet and we can hardly control them as parents since they end up knowing better than we do about the use of mobile devices and social networks.

For all that, poor academic performance, worse problem solving, compared to young people of 20 years ago, as well as little consistency in their daily duties are some of the problems that technology has brought to our children. This makes it seem that they have not matured as much as we saw ourselves when we were their age. And although there are success stories on the Internet, they continue to be counted, due to the great competition that exists on the web.

Advantages and disadvantages are normal in all facets of learning for children, especially in what has to do with this digital age in which we live. We cannot deny all the progress we have made, just in the last decade. We have the information in the palm of one hand, literally speaking, just by browsing with our mobile phone.

Young people, who handle technology better than their elders, have not been able to avoid accessing the Internet and being influenced by all the leisure options that are presented to them. This has been a detriment to most of their academic education and has even had an impact on their social relationships and their maturity, in the face of common life problems. On the other hand, those who have known how to handle it have found the door to success, but these are very few.