Effects+Computers+have+on+Children+in+School

​ Page by: Sarah Wen and Kurt Zimmerman



="One recent survey concluded that more than 80 percent of school-age children are exposed daily to lewd, inappropriate, or dangerous material online through e-mail spam at school and at home" (Alliance for Childhood, p.22). = ="More than 30 years of studies show that computers do not neccessarily improve education, that they quickly become obsolete, and that their high cost can mean less money for proven educational reforms..." (Alliance for Childhood, p.23). = ="Florida officials have argued for backing away from a plan to reduce class size, in part to free up more money for computers" (Alliance for Childhood, p. 24). = ="Studies by Jacobs, former president of the American Occupational Therapy Association, have found about 40 percent of middle-school students reporting musculoskeletal pain related to using computers" (Alliance for Childhood, p. 26). = ="Technology literacy for schoolchildren involves re-conceiving our homes and elementary schools as places that consciously moderate children's encounters with machinery whose operations they cannot understand" (Alliance for Childhood, p. 78). =

Reference:

Alliance for Childhood(2004). //Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology.//