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It's easy to point to a lot of negative effects of technology on youth development. Are there any positive links with development and technology according to the research?
On this discussion post, my intension was not to point out the negative or the positive effects of social networking or technology in general. However, I wanted to ensure that my audience had clear out line of what transpired on the article used, and the role social media played to get to point why the article was written, “the boycott.” However there are way more benefit to technology impact on child Physical, cognitive, social-emotional development than negative. Of course, when we taking about media, we have tendency to focus solely on social media, however media can consist and not limited to electronic devices that can open the child’s mind to different experiences using motion pictures or digitally generated imagery or graphics such as leapfrog devices, electronic tablets, computer or computing devices, and television, gamer devices like Wii using educational or fitness software, just to name a few. Harris (1995) argued that educators and advocates of new digital literacies are confident that social networking encourages the development of transferable technical and social skills of value in formal and informal learning. Few years back my sister calls me from California to tell me how my nephew who is my namesake, Kinkela was doing. Then she proceeded to say that he his becoming more industrious, and was able to teach himself a dance by downloading and watching video from YouTube. He became so good that he started competing with others dancers in the area boosting his self-esteem and opening him up to a different kind of network. This supports Van...

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...arn to Read with Phonics to name a few, have been instrumental media base learning for my two kids as they are growing in this electronic and information age. However it is also my responsibility not just to motivate them, but to also guide through their learning online including the do and don’t on the internet. Consequently, they have develop an affinity to media, so I have purchased Kindle Fire with enhanced educational features where they can read, play educational games, and get to network with their classmate. So electronic media is not negative unless it is not used properly. If the young person understands that the electronic media are tools, which enhance communication, learning, and social interactions with their friends, and the parents constantly reemphasize those lessons, chances are those electronic media would positively impact their developments.

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