Does Technology Affect Children's Development

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Does technology affect children’s development? Technology has had some amazing new advances in the last 20 years. From cell phones to computers to even personal assistance on some devices, we have had some amazing new improvements. But the question is, Are these advances good for our children? How does the world of technology that we live in today affect our children? Some are totally for letting their kids have technology, when others are completely against it. Before Laptops, Tablets and Video games kids would spend their time playing outside, playing board games, building things, putting puzzles together. But now, it is hard to find a child between the age of 3-15 without some electronic device in their hands. 3 Main things that some parents worry about when it comes to children and technology is; Does it start to interfere with their personal interaction with other children? Does it …show more content…

It could be possible that a child could start to lose the ability to communicate properly when technology doesn’t make communicating face to face a priority. It is important and vital for children to learn and understand the importance of being able to communicate properly because of how essential it is in the everyday life. There is such a huge part of a child’s childhood that is just imagination. Albert Einstein once said, “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” For a child to not have an imagination is like a dog without his ball. Imagining things is what encourages our entire existence. Imagination influences everything we do, everything we think about, even everything that we create. It leads to dreams and inventions. Ultimately, Imagination influences everything we do no matter how old we

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