Lesson 10 - Media and Technology Flashcards
What are the positive impacts of technology?
-Provides knowledge that can enhance children’s and adolescents’ education
-Beneficial for children with learning disabilities
-Assistive technologies enable children with various learning differences to participate in educational activities
What are the negative impacts of technology?
-Availability of misinformation
-Losing the ability to process information deeply due to distractions
-More dependence on technology for social interactions and less dependence on each other.
What are the positive impacts of television?
-Can have a positive influence by presenting motivating educational programs
-Increasing children’s and adolescents’ information about the world beyond their immediate environment and providing models of prosocial behavior.
What are the negative impacts of television?
-Making children passive learners
-Distracting them from doing homework
-Teaching them stereotypes
-Providing them with violent models of aggression
-Presenting them with unrealistic views of the world
-Impacts on weight, eating habits, and sleep and wake-time habits
What are the potential warning signs of mental illness in children?
Withdrawing from or avoiding social interactions
Outbursts or extreme irritability
Issues with self-regulation or out-of-control behavior
Drastic changes in moods, behavior or personality
Changes in eating habits
Difficulty sleeping
Frequent headaches or stomachaches
Difficulty concentrating
Changes in academic performance
Avoiding or missing school
What is children’s conception of mental health? Early childhood
Rely on their knowledge of common physical illnesses when thinking about mental illnesses
What is children’s conception of mental health? Middle-Late Childhood
Differences in their thinking about emntal and physical illnesses.
What is the toll on parents when their child has a mental illness?
Helplessness
Shame
Impatience
Anger
Struggling to deal with unwanted input from strangers
The safety and effectiveness of medication and getting their child to take it
Stress about the unpredictability of how and when symptoms will flare.
What are the barriers to mental health in low SES?
Parents’ low education and low SES create a risk for mental health risk for children.
Because early stress is a risk factor for the development of mental health issues.
What is helicopter parenting?
It’s a term for highly involved parents who tend to solve their children’s problems and enhance their abilities through enrolment in structured activities.
What are the parental concerns of media?
- Amount of sexual content children might see
- Amount of violent content children would be exposed to
- Cyberbullying or online harrassment
- Children accessing misinformation (highest ranked concern)
What are the negative influences of video games?
- Children who play extensively violent electronic games are more aggressive
- There is controversy about the size and meaning of that
What are the positive influences of videogames?
- Friendly, competitive and nonviolent games = prosocial ways
- Prosocial game-playing = more empathy and better social relationships (no matter the SES)
- Videogames with exercise = weight loss in overweight adolescents
What is the television’s influence on creativity?
Negative association between television and creativity.
(except when the content is educational and designed to teach creativity)
What are the 3 possibilities to explain the correlation between TV and creativity?
Interference
Displacement
Self-Defeating Tastes
What is Interference?
It could explain the negative correlation between TV and creativity.
- Hvaing a television on while doing homework can distract children while they are doing cognitive tasks.
What is displacement?
It could explain the negative correlation between TV and creativity.
- Television can take away time and attention from engaging in achievement-realted tasks such as doing homework.
What is self-defeating tastes?
It could explain the negative correlation between TV and creativity.
- Television attracts children to other activities that capture their attention.
How can media be beneficial in eduaction?
- Educational programming can enhance achievement.
- Education programs could lead to positive outcomes through high school (higher grades, reading more books, enhanced creativity)
- Provides knowledge that can enhance education
- Beneficial for students with learning disabilities
- Can enable children with learning differences to participate in education activities.
What are the media recommendations?
Limiting screen time
- none before 2 yo.
- 2-5 less than 1 hour (no routine)
- Screen-free time
- No screen for 1 hour before bedtime
Reduce the risks
- Be present and engaged when screens are used
- Be aware of content. Prioritize age-appropriate educational programs
- Teach self-regulation
Adults should model healthy screen use
- Books, outdoor playing, hands-on activities
- Turn off devices
How are mental health and outdoor play related?
Nature promotes mental health in children.
Stress is lower among children with high levels of nature near their homes.
Time spent outside reduces symptoms of ADHD.
Lower time outside = Increased stress, anxiety, depression
What is Physical Literacy?
The motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engaging in physical activities for life.
How is physical literacy now?
Physical literacy is low among children due to societal change.
Children spend more time on screens than active play.
What’s the correlation between time spent outside and aprental concerns?
Negatively correlated.
The more concerned the parents are about fast drivers and strangers, the less time the children spend outside.
