Limiting Use of Technoligy

Alexa T. Dosreis

10-30-13

Journalism C period

 

 

Limiting people’s use of technologies can be a huge benefit to their mental health. This is even more so for children who go about their days constantly texting, or gaming, or tweeting. They can stunt the development process of their brains cells by putting consuming their heads with technological pressures. Children start developing their neuron brain cells from the day they are born until they enter adulthood. Only a proper learning environment like a class room can successfully stimulate and improve their minds. Studies show that children who are already using the internet from the age of three are damaging their brain cells and are not developing their thinking ability because the computer is doing the thinking for them. This inability to learn properly can transfer into their adolescent years.  Have you ever gone to email somebody and then forgot completely who you were going to email two seconds later? This may be because, “Doing multiple tasks overstimulates and fatigues the frontal lobe, the part of our brains which regulates problem-solving and decision-making” (The Huffington Post).  A  good night sleep is the best way to revitalize your brain cells considering how many hours of the night teens stay up on their phones alone. It makes sense to why teachers do not allow cell phones in class. If a student’s head is too exhausted to think then they will not learn, therefore it will result in underperformance and the final grade will suffer for it. However, adults are not so innocent in all of this either because I have witnessed firsthand real technological distractions.  At a kids play center I work at , I have seen parents staring at the screens of their phones or tablets, and completely lose track of where their children are and expect me to help search for them, but I have a job to do to and it doesn’t include babysitting. This lack of responsibility can tie into the fact that they have probably already exhausted their brains and had forgotten all about their child. As Strasburger, a University of New Mexico adolescent specialist had said: “This is the 21^st century and they need to get with it.” (ABC  News).