Exposing Children To The Latest Technology Case Study

Table of Contents
1.0 The implication of exposing children to the latest technology 3
1.1 Health Problems 4
1.2 Writing Skills 4
1.3 Distraction 4
1.4 Addiction 5
1.5 Social Skills 5
2.0 How can biometric technologies help in fighting crimes 6
2.1 Fingerprint 7
2.2 Voice verification 7
2.3 Face recognition 7
2.4 Hand geometry 8
2.5 Iris recognition 8
3.0 Identify and describe criteria which may be used when assessing the effectiveness of a website 9
3.1.1 Accuracy. 10
3.1.2 Authority. 10
3.1.3 Objectivity. 10
3.1.4 Currency. 11
3.1.5 Coverage. 11
4.0 References 12

1.0 The implication of exposing children to the latest technology
The age of information technology is upon us and it is the most important part in our lives. Even so, everything
1.1 Health Problems
The impact of technology on health problems in children caused many health problems. Through the investigation we can tell you, because of the electronic products frequently used to make children's health problems began to appear, such as back pain, impaired vision and other health problems. Loss of hearing and eyesight, using headphones and earbuds can caused children to lose their hearing overtime, staring at device screen can caused them to need glasses much earlier in life.

1.2 Writing Skills
Technology will also affect children’s writing skills in the long term as they will always use “slang” words instead of formal words every time they use the messaging app on their smart phone. It will definitely affect their daily writing and even their school work once they get used to the “slang” words. Indeed, they are a lot of parents also mentioning that their children always use “slang” words instead of formal words like capitalization and punctuation on their school works.

1.3
It is because they will use the technology like a smartphone to surf the internet and even checking their social media app like Facebook and Twitter in the classroom and lead them to lose focus on the learning. So that we believe smartphones should be absolutely banned from school because this will affect the children’s concentration while teachers is teaching. 1.4 Addiction The use of electronic products often sitting in one place for a long time does not move, the result is the ability to influence the development of children. According to our survey found that more and more children due to the Tablet PC and mobile electronics "addiction" is gradually losing some simple action skill, many children can swipe or draw on the screen to go, but because for a long time " stick "on a tablet and they are not flexibility to use their fingers.

1.5 Social Skills
Technology has made children lack of social skills because social skills can’t build up from technology. Social skills need to be built up through practice and learn from daily experiences. They have to start talking to each other from proper greetings and eye contact in order for them to build up the social skills. If they only focus on the technology, they will lose the ability to read body language and social cue either verbal or non-verbal cues on other people. These social skills also can’t develop if they keep focusing on those