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The Internet and Social Safety among Elementary Kids
Internet and social media usage become inevitable and beneficial for children in every aspects of life. Children have subsequently been exposed, entertained, educated as well as socialized by the internet. As the world becomes more digitalized, more researches are done in order to determine whether or not the internet is beneficial for children. Even though many researches that are conducted on the effectiveness of internet and social media usage have shown that there are more advantages, there are still considerable negative sides. In this essay, I will attract attention to increased utilization of the internet and social media among the kids can groom them if the harmful sides of the internet usage be avoided. (Short intro please add some more)
With increased internet usage, particularly new discoveries of more educative websites that are rated children-friendly, internet become an educational tool. Children are able to ensure the knowledge necessary for expansive learning. Internet presents avenues for visual learning as young children are attracted to diagrams, images as well as photos that are academically designed to empower and enhance learning. This has presented the children with an opportunity to gain valuable knowledge as they learn and develop ability to navigate and do research work at early stages (Resources in Education 76). The result of this is reflected in the academic ability of the children as they grow based on the increased capability to understand search engines needed for particular data retrievals. Such children further develop interest and become good researchers in the future as they undergo the education ladder. They become brighter as they explore the massive relevant information from the peer-reviewed articles as well as books.
Internet is a great tool for children to learn more not only for academic success, but also for self-improvement. Many educative websites allows kids to get help for their schoolwork. One example would be Mathway, a websites that solves math problems and explain the answers. Grammarly is another website that helps students to fix their grammatical errors. Internet also helps students to improve themselves in many different ways. There are many tutorial videos on YouTube that can teach kids many different skills.
Internet is an important instrument for children to gather new information. It is also positive for the foreign students as internet has enabled them to use Google Translations to understand English. Children have also benefited from diverse knowledge and skills available on the internet sources besides being positively enlightened through games played, which has led to generation and incubation of relevant ideas (Dixon, Brian, and Julie 122). Children have found it easy to navigate the personal computers and to obtain necessary project information necessary for their class works.
Internet has also facilitated the communication and interaction of global friendship, which is beneficial for integration of children. Social media allows children to make global friendships, which creates global harmony and unity. Students have made valuable friendships on global perspectives. This has built a global village and created unity to the kids through the interactive platforms availed in the social media. (Different topic) This ensures that the sensitization is made on a global perspective, and future reduction on the manipulative activities of the unscrupulous internet users.
In addition, children grow as they learn through their parents on how to deal with the scammers and fraudsters at early stages. Hence they are groomed and grow up as visible individual, ready to rationally counteract immoral activities that have characterized the internet and the social media. This interaction has positively affect the children to problem solving based on increased exposure to challenges of internet and social media. Academic fields have also benefited as students become digitalized and they can apply ICT (Information and communication technology) in teaching that has enhanced educators and scaffolding teaching methods.
The use of internet and social media presents significance avenues to expand the entertainment by children. Entertainment plays an important role in the cognitive development of children. The internet and social media platforms present valuable entertainment items that help children to develop their interest and skills. Many children grow up having identified whatever careers they want to pursue. Entertainment industry draws attention of many children who not only become entertained, but develop their talents and may in the future become significant artist. The internet and social media have also groomed children through entertainment that are attached to educating children on the moral behaviors. (You should focus on the entertainment itself, not the industry because one in a thousand people becomes an artist)
This has culminated into rational thinking generation who explore the knowledge and particular themes attached to such entertainment item. Children's talents and innovativeness' ability have increased based on the internet. Children come up with counteractive measures to deal with their strangers who intrude into their accounts. They have opted to contact their parents mostly than teachers in getting solutions to their problems. Children have developed intense understanding of the precautions when online. They have blocked strangers and have realized the need to the morality act online just as offline.
Despite the massive benefits attached to internet and social media utilization among the children, it should be limited as it has adverse effects such as addiction and sexting. With respect to sexting, children of this generation are interconnected by means of social media platforms. Virtual communities such as Twitter and Facebook have surpassed emails in communications (Bruce 54). A daunting challenge, however, arises from the problem of sexting. Unscrupulous and immoral teens, are uploading and sending a text message with children photos attached, naked while indulging in sexual desires or acts. This sexting has caused enormous emotional sufferings to the kids as senders and receivers of such inappropriate pictures which attract severe court battles leading to punishments and loss of properties to meet the court fines. While internet has enormous benefits to children, harmful sides should be considered in order to create a safe internet usage.
In addition, internet addiction is also harmful to children who have been addicted thus spend a lot of time watching inappropriate videos, photos and playing games. Such children lose focus on other essential duties as much time is allotted for surfing. The trend has escalated making young to look like machines (Strasburger, Barbara and Amy 78). Many children have thus shifted away from academics as they get entertained by unnecessary items that are not appropriate for their consumptions. Parents have found it quite difficult to help their children get the best from the internet as they have been very conservative. In contrast, children would not want their parents to track their movements. They have thus opted for privacy demanding such items as smartphones and personal computers. Most children spend time on social sites culminating to increased exposure to immorality.
It is noted that besides the vital advantages connected to the internet and social media, such advantages are counteracted in equal measures with disadvantages. In essence, cyberbullying, addiction and sexting stand erected as some of the inevitabilities attached to the internet and social media sites amongst the children (Bruce 178). Precaution must be taken in order to encourage respective parents to protect the children strictly by filtering or privacy settings as well as educating their children to remain moral in social sites and internet (Cole 19). Parents should discourage children from accessing, listening, viewing or watching inappropriate and harmful images, music's, videos or pictures in order to remain moral.
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