Fruition suggests that parents have a reward system in place where children earn the privilege of using the computers for recreational and social reasons, after they have appropriately attended to schoolwork requirements and physical/outdoor activities. Our family and our Fruition Family wishes you a safe and Holy Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year filled with laughter, learning, success and advancement – abundant fruit bearing The Australian Federal Government and governments around the world have sought to close the technology gap by providing computers for all children and by providing high speed internet services. However, according to a new study of 150 000 individual students, by scholars at Duke University's Sandford School of Public Policy, "... having home computers widens the achievement gap in reading and maths results." Students in years 5 to 8 tend to post lower results once these technologies arrive in their home as physics tutors.
Why? Technology when used appropriately can be a great resource. However many parents don't really know just how much time children are spending on recreational and social use of computers and the internet as compared with educational use of computers as physics tutors. Computers and mobile phones can be a major distraction to children when they are doing their homework or studying for exams because incoming emails, text messages and updates to the social networking sites like Face book and Twitter can capture their attention and interrupt or distract them from focused study time. A balanced approach with healthy timeframes between recreational/social use of computers and educational use is what is needed.
If we try to 'out-law' the recreational use of computers and phones entirely we run the risk of creating a 'black market' situation where children may find underhanded ways around the strict rules without parents knowing. Fruition recommends that parents talk with their children about safety issues of using social networking sites including: never disclosing personal details e.g., full names, addresses or phone numbers as well as school details etc, always telling an adult if there are threatening or negative messages being posted, never making personal comments about others. Fruition recommends that parents 'limit' the use of computers, internet, emails, computer games and use of mobile phones to something separately reasonable for both the week days and weekends so that they can concentrate on the studies with help of physics tutors.
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