Erika Packard The Internet And Children Summary

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Monitor staff, Erika Packard, in her article, It’s fun, but does it make you smarter?, engages with the internet and children. Packard’s purpose is to implement the idea of incorporating computer use into children and teen lives to improve their school reading test scores. She adopts an acquaint tone in order to convince her readers the reality that computers can advance a student’s test scores.
Packard expounds the idea that giving children and teens the opportunity to use internet in a proactive way can help them excel in school. She supports this by addressing several organizations that can help with this idea. Packard herself is a Monitor on Psychology. She also is affiliated with the American Psychological Association (APA). MSU psychologist, …show more content…

Many household in the US do not have immediate access to the internet which can lower the chances of a student exceeding school. Whilst Japan has devised up the idea of the government providing 98 percent of homes with access for $22 a month. If we tried this idea we can possibly achieve a higher status of education like the country Finland; there, teachers are provided training to help students in class when there is no other option.
Packard analyzes the study conducted upon 140 urban children by Linda Jackson. This study assess the effects of internet use in low-income families. The children that partook in this “experiment” were evaluated and majority of them were African American around 13 years old. They also underperformed in school resulting in them being in the 30th percentile on tests.
Lastly Packard ridicules how the National Assessment of Educational Progress only focuses on what they have set for 2009-2019 instead of having a full outlook in online reading skills. “This is suppose to be the gold standard of our performance on reading, and until 2019 we are not going to have a handle on how are kids are doing”. Packard supports this by having a mind-set by knowing the problem, figuring out what needs to be done and lastly taking that plan into action. With this, the entire community will boom with progress towards a better

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