Blog # 13 , 04/26/09

Blog# 13, 04/26/09

This week's class discussion on my final paper I have concluded that cell phones are hurting our kids in various different ways, they can be very dangerous on the road while driving or kids can be so engrossed while they are talking on the phone they can easily forget to look around for the traffic and even the child can be in danger of being mugged or someone can steal their cell phone. Kids might be wasting their precious time and their parent’s money while chatting, blogging, playing Internet games, listening to music, cyber bullying, or text messaging on the cell phone. That proves “Cell phones are hurting our kids”and the digital media convergence is very useful at times but it can be harmful especially for children.
On the basis of review of other's studies and articles I have couple of questions:
1). How cell phone's communication making the children lose their their vocabulary, reading and writing skills?
2). Does the iPods and iPhones have adverse affects on children or are they learning new technology to compose different types of music?