Affect of Computer on Education

Introduction

Impact of computers and the Internet on the development and education of children and youth is multifaceted. Through the invention referred to, children and young people are relentless acceleration / speed up the development / in all spheres of development. Increasingly, however, there are voices on the negative impact of computers and the Internet on human health. Not everyone, however, and especially parents, are aware of the hazards, which can lead to frequent and uncontrolled use of the computer. The most common threats that warn us psychologists, doctors and teachers are: the stress involved in the use of computer games, problems resulting from stay long in the same position, and computer addiction from the Internet. There are also doubts raised easily and uncontrolled access of children and young people to websites containing demoralizing content, images, and videos.

Discussion

Young people, especially children, are in a period of intense physical development. The positive impact of computers and the Internet for their health manifests itself in the exercise of perception and reflexes, improve eye-hand coordination, rapid response to stimuli, the possibility of obtaining information / no emails / on a variety of topics related to the needs and interests of children and young people.

The development of physical and mental human from an early age is accompanied by intellectual development (Yesilyurt). The computer and the Internet can help him with access to vast amounts of information, its selection and assimilation, stimulate cognitive skills of independent learning tasks, and troubleshoot a computer, develop independent and creative thinking, the use of different sources of information and training of literacy computer science, the use of educational programs to enable individualization of learning, increase the effectiveness of teaching, students getting used to the benefit of new technologies in learning, preparing students for lifelong self-education / multimedia educational programs, courses, distance learning / education and addressing shortcomings.

In times dominated by technology and the enormous amount of information is particularly important to the problem of responsible education of children and youth information (Fardy, Shorabi and Mohammadi). The challenge for parents and all levels of education should be to ensure that in the process of upbringing and education were frequent health education content designed to develop in children the habit of such use of computers and Internet to inventions do not endanger the health of the "young man" or the contacts between people and particularly the right attitudes and social behavior.

In some countries, timid actions were taken in order to introduce certain restrictions and control of web servers, but attempting to apply any censorship Internet met with fierce criticism from Internet users. Therefore, the problem of children and young people access to sites intended for "adults only" have to deal with the parents and teachers (Ozyurt). Protection of their physical and mental health, however, requires the combined efforts of educational by family home and an education institution to which the child attends - the action of only one party will not take effect. However, we may be tempted to ...