...Multitasking plays an important role to teenagers lives. Some listen to music while playing video games. Others type a research report and answer their text messages, at the same time. Parents don’t think this is good for them. Multitasking is becoming widely common in teens. It allows them to have the world at their fingertips, and allowing them to stay connected with multiple media sources all at once. Although many adults and parents believe multitasking has negative effects on teens, studies might say otherwise. Multitasking has become widely common in teens recently. They can benefit a lot from it. Studies have shown that teens who multitask a lot tend to have good skills in their other 5 senses, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. These senses are beneficial and crucial to a teen’s life, they are what makes...
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...Click, scratch, click, scratch. That’s the sound of you unproductively multitasking. Multitasking is the act of doing two or more different things at once. In this case I think teens cannot multitask effectively, because teens may be too distracted with of the technology, teens may not be learning because they are doing too many things at once, and teens parents should put down more guidelines to allow their children to focus. First of all teens cannot multitask effectively because they may be too distracted by technology. Strong evidence suggest, “ Lary Rosen recommends turning off the tech and trying to focus on schoolwork, although media is very hard to avoid, you need to prioritize what comes first.” Therefore, an expert even relates to this topic as a major problem and how to help. Scientist’s studies even show, “Among teenagers, average screen time is more than six-and-a-half and almost nine hours with nine hours over all.” stated Judy Woodruff. This piece of evidence proves that teens are on their technology too long, therefore how else will they be able to actually focus on educational work....
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...Multitasking is having a large effect on children, in both the classroom and there daily life. Few studies have been developed to focus on how multitasking affects children as they get older. The sources also relate specifically about how multitasking affects children in school and there daily lives. By multitasking while studying your brain functions different then if you were only focusing on one thing. There is a strong lack of knowledge learned when doing this. Also studies have show that many children find less time to interact with their parents because of the large amounts of time multitasking have found. Because of today’s popular culture kids are trying to multitask to much and its affecting them in school and in there family life. Doing very simple tasks such as ironing some clothes and listening to a radio is as simple as multitasking can get. But when children use there electronics to become multitaskers it’s a completely different story. They become so fixated on what they were supposed to do, that they have to double the amount of time just to finish what they started. Doing homework while instant messaging, listening to music, and watching television becomes more of a concern for parents everyday. Family life is becoming a concern for children and how they act around there family member. A specific study by Anthropologist Elinor Orch, director of UCLA’s center on everyday lives of families. Because of the large scale of multitasking with...
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...pops up on your phone. You stop your homework to look at that message, but then your attention shifts to changing the music on your phone because it’s not the mood you’re in. And trust me, i know the problem, but i’m here to tell you as a teen just like you, why “multitasking” is the real problem. First, multitasking seems plaint. When you think you are multitasking… you’re not- it’s actually slowing you down and creating another distraction. I’m saying: it’s going to take longer because we have to remind our brains what we are working on. When you are switching tasks, it slows you down, when you think you are going faster… funny huh? Lets even think about when you listen to music when you're working on your homework that is due the next day for math class. When you listen to music your brain can't focus on both at...
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...can take away everything and/or everyone you have in mere seconds, regardless of how safe you are. No matter what safety precautions anyone has taken, statistics show that teenagers, more specifically, sixteen year olds, are the most dangerous drivers on the road. Not only are they a danger to themselves, but even more frighteningly, they are a danger everyone around them. Because of this, I believe the driving age limit should be raised to eighteen and sixteen year olds should not be given a “graduated” driver’s license. Driving is a task that requires the utmost attention to detail. Multitasking is perhaps one of the most important things that any driver has to do when he or she gets behind the wheel. You have to pay attention to your speed, other drivers, pedestrians, road conditions, and much more. Because teenagers get distracted so easily, they are often poor at multitasking. This, in addition to the complexities of driving, makes teenagers, specifically sixteen year olds, the most dangerous drivers on the road. In fact, motor vehicle accidents are the number one killer of teenagers, with an estimated 5,000 deaths attributed to it every year. (Schlachtenhaufen, 2008). Even more startling, sixteen year olds have a five to one ratio of being in fatal vehicle crashes when compared to drivers twenty years old or older. In 2003, there were 937 vehicle accidents in which the driver was sixteen years old. Out of the 937 crashes, the drivers were killed in 411 of them;...
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...Social networking sites reduces the net worth of children and teens The 21st century undoubtedly has become the era of technology; creating a global village of tremendous communication, research and inventions. Today, the global north is easily linked to the global south opening up a range of opportunities in the transport industry, economic interaction, media and publicity, cooperate governance and even socialization through social media. The concept of social media has revolutionized the way children and teenagers communicate and stay in touch with friends, relatives and close families, learning, information sharing, making virtual friends and creating a diverse world of people from different cultures around the globe and would never have met in a lifetime. The proliferation of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has enabled children and youth to express themselves and make new beneficial connections quickly. It seem appropriate therefore to mention in few lines about how I personally feel about social media and what it has done for me. I definitely love being in my own space most of the time, within my own space, and alone, in this sense social media has provided the opportunity for me to interact without being in physical proximity with the person/persons. I appreciate this type of interaction as it saves me the awkwardness and strain I feel when meeting new people face to face. Moreover I can now shop online without leaving the confines...
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...Media Multitasking: A Lack of Social Skills? Many people in today’s society may look at multitasking as a harmless way of accomplishing multiple tasks at one time. For instance, one could be chatting with a friend online while listening to music and doing homework. Although multitasking can indeed be helpful in completing tasks in a timely matter, one must recognize the definite price that is being paid for this practice. Media multitasking is damaging today’s students by not only hindering one’s ability to fully absorb information, but by changing student’s understanding of what the term socializing means. In order to fully understand how media multitasking is damaging students, we must first realize what exactly is happening in the brain during multitasking. Those students who multitask during homework may be doing things such as browsing Facebook, checking email, texting, and instant messaging. Scientists believe that when a person is trying to complete multiple tasks like this, the brain is distributing low amounts of information to each task instead of concentrating on one task at a time. This creates a sort of “brownout” effect inside of the brain. University of Michigan Professor David Meyer states that “all the lights go dim because there just isn’t enough power to go around.” This means that even though you think you are giving most of your attention to that homework assignment, your brain is actually rationalizing instead. During this rationalization, the brain...
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...in the 50's, the buying power of the group has exceeded those of other age brackets. Thus many products are marketed to appeal to this consumer market. In the following it will be discussed the consumer needs, perceptions and attitudes of the Teen market and how products and services are marketed to the group. The teen market is quite frankly a purchaseing power house. As an individual within this consumer market the needs of the consumer to conform are exceedingly high. Teens overarching wants are to be socially accepted if not popular among their peers yet distict. Teens seek out risk-taking behavior because their brain systems involved in decission making are not fully developed. during puberty for instance the section of the brain that is most involved in emotion and social interaction become extreamly active. This explians why teen are so suseptible to peer preasure and Companys are more than happy to capitalize on this fact. Teens perception of popularity is important, thou many adults try to teach that the need to be accepted among their peers is not the end all be all of life. To tell a teen that they don't need the latest trend and that know matter how they pleed the purchase won't be made is to kill them. Granted that teens who felt good about themselves and social standing did well over time in a study....
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...Ang Pagsusuri sa Epekto ng Teknolohiya sa Edukasyon, Kalusugan at Pang Araw-araw na Gawain ng mga Kabataang Pilipino na may Edad 13-18 taong gulang. Thesis statement: Mga maganda at di magandang epekto ng paggamit ng teknolohiya sa pamumuhay ng kabataang Pilipino. Nais naming matuklasaan kung gaano binabago ng teknolohiya ang mga kabataan at kung makakatulong ba ito o nakakasira sa kanilang paglaki at pag-uugali. SANGGUNIAN 1. Kiernan, J. T. (2011). Technology, Freedom and the Human Person: Some Teen Insights into Merton and Benedict XVI. Merton Annual, 24244-255 The article offers the author's insights on the implication of technology for human lives. Topics discussed importance of technology for enhancement of communication, risk factors associated with technology used, and the effects of technology on human behavior. Moreover, it provides the outlook of American Catholic writer Thomas Merton and Pope Benedict XVI regarding modernity. 2. Ives, E.A. (2012, October 1). iGeneration: The Social Cognitive Effects of Digital Technology on teenagers. The purpose of this study was to examine and better understand the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers' brains and their socialization processes, as well as to learn best practices with regard to digital technology consumption. An extensive literature review was conducted on the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers and an action research project was carried out gleaning quantitative...
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...The use of media is overpowering the amount of time children and teens spend on doing something proactive. Over the last decade, technology has made major upgrades. The evolution of the media has begun to pull in the minds of the young. They spend less time doing activities that will benefit them such as reading, athletics, and socializing; but they spend more time social networking, playing video games, and browsing the web. Today, just as the author Ray Bradbury predicted in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the addiction to media has led to a substantial amount of time loss, social isolation, and an increase in negative effects on children’s and teen’s well being. The youth would rather be on their cell phones than spend time with their families. The media usage of teens has jumped to over “53 hours a week” (Toppo). “I feel like my days would be boring without it” (Lewin). It is not only that teens would rather spend time on their phones; they would rather stay in their rooms then go out and do something proactive or spend...
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...“A witness says the driver of a pickup truck collided with a church minibus in rural Texas, killing 13 people, acknowledged he had been texting while driving” I listen to this as I sit on my phone while my mom watches the news. I look up to see an image of two cars completely destroyed. “Witnesses say that the driver was erratically driving across the road”. The death of these 13 people was caused because of the choices of someone else, texting while driving, something that is legal in Texas and three other states allowing the freedom of deadly crashes like this to occur. Many people believe that texting while driving is multitasking, but research has shown that multitasking is when you are switching your attention from one thing to the...
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...it because I was too busy multitasking… First off, this is written as a business novel. Lately, I have been really weary about business novels. For one, I’m not a novel reader and, since The Goal, the only business novels I’ve liked and gotten through are SHORT ones, including All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe’s Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple and The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You Do (my review here). This book, written by business coach Dave Crenshaw, tackles the idea of “multitasking” — that we can do two things at once. If you think about multitasking from a Lean perspective, you might think about the practices of Standardized Work. In a factory, standardized work assumes a person can really only do one thing at a time. At most, you might reach for a part with your left hand while simultaneously reaching for a tool with your right. But, this is a relatively simple task that, in a repetitive manufacturing environment, can be done without thinking and through a lot of muscle memory. In professional settings, we often trick ourselves into thinking we can multitask. While on conference calls, people play Minesweeper or surf the web. This works, except for when you realize you haven’t been listening or someone calls on you and you can’t answer — it’s embarrassing. Nurses and other medical professionals are often the queens (and kings) of multitasking, or so they think. Can we really...
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...this technology affecting our brain in a negative way? (INSERT QUOTE FROM CARR) Studies have shown that our brains do not truly develop until age 25. According to the research by the Pew Research Center 93% of teens ages 12-17 go online (Lenhart et al 4). So my question to you is, can adolescents age 12-15 take in all the ever-changing technology and does it affect their development: specifically academics. Whether at home, school or the library it is assumed that most teenagers have access to the internet. Some may argue that such easy access helps students academically. We now have a tool that gives us instant information and answers, whether correct or incorrect. Are the days of tutoring and asking parents for homework help gone because the internet? Why wait for help when you can simply google it. Some parents and children see this in a good light-a goodbye to unanswered questions, a hurrah to technology. However the internet itself has no regulations. Children may get online to do homework, play games, or just surf the web. I personally think it is the parent’s job to regulate and monitor their children’s internet use. Although they will go to school and have free-range so to speak, the values at home should transfer. On any given day, teens in the United States spend about nine hours using media for their enjoyment (Wallace 1.) That is 9 hours per day, more time than an average child spends learning in school. Isn’t it up to the parents to take control...
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...Tyler Vento 4/18/17 Ms. Strickland English 122 Teen Brains To start with a teenagers brain is simply just not a developed as that of an adult. A teen brain is more likely to become easily addicted to harmful substances. In addition, to this the teenage brain finds it harder to process information which could have a negative effect on their social abilities. Since the teen brain starts to mature from the back of the brain to the front it is easier for teens to be more rash, an example would be texting and driving, which sadly can sometimes leads to death. In the last two decades research into teen brains have shown us that the frontal lobe is undeveloped which will cause us to act in ways that others might find unacceptable. However most people...
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...SOCIAL NETWORK BENEFITS VALIDATED The article by Karen Goldberg examines how social network is a benefit for many teens. Some of the benefits that Goldberg is talking about are the fact that communication that social networking provides it somewhat encouraging useful skills. Goldberg talks about how the digital world is creating new opportunities especially for young people. Mizuko Ito says that kids spending time online can cause them to get lazy. However, Lisa Tripp says that technology creates avenues for extending young people a circle of friends, boost self-direct learning and foster independence. A common thing about social networking is how young people are able to expand their social circle; they do that just by communicating. On the other hand, young people also get the chance to express themselves through social media, which they can’t do in a classroom so freely. Social networking provides the power of multitasking, that way young people can communicate with a large number of people at the same time. The article also talks about parents’ role. Social networking is necessary and it’s an important part of the culture for young people, and this is why parents must accept this but be aware of with whom their kids are communicating with. It’s the parents’ job to monitor what their kids are expressing. It’s recommended that parents have a “presence” in their children’s social network. Certainly, this means having a password and knowing who you child’s friends are and...
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