What I read
In "Study links restricting screen time for kids to higher
mental performance", Hamza Shaban (2018) report that spending too much
time on smart devices can lead to insufficiency of sleep and brain underperform.
Due to the findings, children have better ability in thinking, communication
and memory when they live in proper lifestyle. For examples, spending one hour
for exercise, two hours or less on screens and nine to eleven hours for sleep
daily. It is also suggest that parents help kids manage their time on smart
device. Furthermore, relevant business sectors such as Apple and Google,
launched a system that can control time spending on devices and programs.
Although lower screen using rate has significant effect on children cognitive,
more up-to-dated studies are needed to ensure the link between them.
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My response
Technology have both
advantages and disadvantages. Because of innovative devices, The world become
seamless while life turn complicated simultaneously. We surf the Internet to explore the treasure of information and obtain a lots of knowledge from it.
However, some of us get so addicted to social media and people in the virtual
world that they look over people around them in reality.
In addition, spending too much time on smartphones may lessen our time to do
other activities to improve physical strength or soft skills. For children,
they definitely have less time running around playground if they obsess with
running their fingers on smart devices.
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My question
Do you think that screen
overuse may also cause lower efficiency of brain work in adults?
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Reference
- Shaban, H. (2018, September 30). 'Living smarter with tech': How to be a better family member. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/27/study-links-restricting-screen-time-kids-higher-mental-performance/?utm_term=.771e25cf5a5d
I've already admitted in my post about drugs that I'm addicted to coffee. If I don't get my daily morning and afternoon hits of that drug, I suffer increasingly bad headaches and I suspect also mood swings that make my unpleasant to be around. Fortunately, coffee is a healthy drug to be addicted to — up to four or five cups a day reduces the likelihood of getting several diseases much nmore than green tea and other popular drinks.
ReplyDeleteReading Fern's post, I stopped to think, with my large, strong morning coffee of course, whether I might be addicted to my smart phone. I certainly use it a lot, but I think that dependency is more like my dependence on water: it's a need more than an addiction. Although I use screens for everything, for example, I'm sitting in front of my desktop screen right now, I use them as tools and they don't use me. If something came up, like a visitor who took me away from the computer, I would be fine. And when I'm in class, I use my laptop, tablet or phone as teaching tools, but again, I'm in control, unlike with my physiological and psychological coffee dependency.
I will be interested to see what comments others make on this modern social issue that Fern invites us to think about.
Thank you Fern. If you open your post to edit, you can add a title, which would be useful. What would make a good title for this piece of work?
DeleteAnd some of the formatting, for example the font in the first paragraph, seems to have changed from the standard in the template. And is the first paragraph, the summary, one paragraph? The word count is OK. Google has just told me it is 130 words, so that's OK.
Thank you. :)
ReplyDeleteI like your title.
DeleteThank you Fern for this interesting topic that you chose.
ReplyDeleteFirst, allow me to classify the screens into two categories; desktops and laptops and in the second category that contains smartphones. However, tablets can be added to both categories.
Nowadays, we use desktops and laptops a lot due to our studies and works, and in this case, they absolutely give such advantages to our skills.
On the other hand, smartphones are serious issue that we should worry about using them. From my observations, I saw a lot of people misuse them in the way that scientists expected. Most people use them for socials media and games and this surely led to lessen the physical activities as well as other activities. For example, when I take BTS for 30 minutes, I see most people stare on their phones either on Facebook or games, while one or two people only hold a book or newspaper and read it.
For me, I am in control concerning smartphones and I follow many tips that help me to be in control. For sure, I am grateful to this technology that save our money concerning the communications with others, but we have to help our self to control it well.
I almost forget about desktops and laptops. lol Thank you for sharing, Waleed Alahmad. :)))
DeleteYour content is indeed related to present situation. I was the one who you smart device like 24/7 and I slept less than 5 hours a day. My body sucked both physically and mentally. Overuse of smart device doesn't only children but also adult. My eyesight went wrong after I spent my life like that. But now it's better because I use less, do more stuff like reading books or if I want to watch YouTube, I watch through TV a bit far from the screen instead of smartphone.
ReplyDeleteP’ Mon, we face same problem lol I am also suffering with insomnia because of recieving too much light from smart devices.
DeleteYour issue is very interesting! It seems that play more attention on the smart devices rather than talk to each other. So, it might be said that Thai people fell in “San-Kom Kom-Na”. Last semester, I had been performed as a teacher assistant, see most students did not listen the lecturers. They play game or chat with friends on their smartphones. In line with this case, I do agree with you, N’Fern, the smart devices can distract the students from their lesson. Moreover, it affect their brain and lead them to insomnia, migrane or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
ReplyDeleteThank you for your helpful comment. You have made the idea of this topic clearer with real example, which can be seen in daily study life in Thailand.
DeleteI do agree that screen overuse causes the brain to function less efficient. From my own personal experience, I have seen many friends of mine getting lower GPAs than they used to because they were spending too much time on their smartphones resulting sleep deprivation and increased irresponsibility.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you. Thank you for sharing your personal experience.
DeleteI absolutely confident that when we overuse the smart device and face on screen long time, it can reduce our quality of memory. I’m not sure why it happen, but It had happened to someone I know. Last year, I taught her about Mathematics, she told me that she understood what I taught, but when I asked her some questions, she didn’t answer me. It happened many times until I think about a cause that make her couldn’t answer the questions. Every time I saw her, she always played a smart phone. I think, this is the problem for her. So I told her parent about this problem, and now she can answer all questions that I gave to her. I think, she can answer my questions because she played a phone less than before.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Job :) Apart from an impact on brain function, I assume that smartphones may distract many students from studying in classroom. With overuse of screens, they won't be able to pay full attention to the lesson.
DeleteI do really like your topic and will be sharing my opinion. A Respond from my point of view is that, I thought the excessive used of the screen device, which operates by rapidly transmits the change of light in order to change the display, will lower the efficiency of the brain even in adulthood. Although there is so much tools to help improving ourselves on the devices, but because of the entertainment which its give cause us to be addicted and finally lose our focus on things.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to hear that :))) and thank you for sharing your opinion. I do agree with you. From my experience, too rapid change of light on screen also have a great effect on my sleeping schedule. Even though there is several useful information on the Internet, I am addicted to Youtube, too.
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