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Effects Of Kids Interlace With Internet On Their Attitude

Introduction

During the introduction of internet to the world, there were compliments about its abilities. Such appraisals saw its growth in extents not experienced before and many scientists developed interest in the new technology. Everyone was excited leading to the introduction of improvements to the technology to perfect it (White 34). All over the world, everyone started to use internet for varied reasons. While the whole world was frenzying the websites, children were slowly integrating into the usage of the new art in town. Initially, no one detected any harm but as the internet grew to incorporate all sorts of people, contents affecting kids became available on the internet. Consequently, there was an outcry all the world and experts have been proposing various ways to prevent this exposure to children. However, everyone is failing to succeed and one fact is evident, kids are the victims. The following paper is an insight to the growing attitude change by youngsters because of internet usage.

Social Changes

Internet is unavoidable and there are certain positive attributes that are present from the usage of the internet by children. According to a study conducted by experts, effects on kid’s social life by the internet are on their infancy stage (White 90). Young children are the ones most likely to benefit from the usage of internet and cognitive skills of youngsters are the most likely positive attributes that a kid will attain from the usage of the internet. Cognitive skills in discussion herein include good decision-making skills, hand eye coordination, and better strategies. Nevertheless, the advantages cannot measure up to the number of demerits exposed to children by excess usage of the internet. That is, youngsters spend most of the playing video games, surfing the internet, and watching online programs and research indicates the same negative effects that too much television for teenagers using the internet.

According to research internet is causing a change of attitude towards parents. A journal named “The Future of Children” reported that kids are more likely to teach their parents the usage of internet. Role reversal mostly leads to disrespect of parents by their teenage children. Though this may assist in increasing communication between parents and their children, it weakens the authority of parents. When kids use the internet moderately there is no registered effects on their social life. Comparing moderate users and their non-users counterparts it is clear that there is little if any difference in their behaviors (Kirsh 23). However, excessive user did show many differences and one of them is lack of control of their lives. According to research, when a comparison between kids who consume internet products in large amounts and those abstaining from the usage did conclude, the former exhibited inadequate socialization skills and lesser life control.

Initially, teenagers played their favorite video games on television sets. There was a worldwide acceptance of the fact that the games were affecting kids negatively. Campaigns were spreading rapidly to reduce the number of violent video games available in the market. With such censorship of video games, children would sort alternative means. Internet eventually became the favorite substitute and online games were now normality among youngsters. Online games have more graphics and in addition to that, they have more bloody scenes. They allow kids to simulate certain characters and according to the skills of the teenager, they kill as many people, as they want at least virtually (Joinson 77). These scenes change the attitude of the teenagers towards other people and they tend to generate more behaviors that are violent. Studies indicate that in comparison to kids who do not use internet regularly, excessive users tend to be more violent.

Violence might be towards other people but these kids tend to harm themselves too. A study conducted in China and focusing on youngsters between the age of 8 and 18 indicates that brain drain is common among teenagers exposed to excessive usage of the internet. Atrophy is the wasting away of a given part of the body. Causes of such body behaviors include poor nourishment, low hormonal support, lack of exercises, and mutations (Kirsh 45). However, kids using the internet have higher chances of having atrophy in the brain, measured by the use of MRI scans. Apart from suffering from brain atrophy, these youngsters also suffer from abnormalities observed in the brains white matter by scanning. In July this year, Dr. Aric Sigman from the Royal Society of Medicine on an online mail called this report a wakeup call to all parents. Furthermore, professionals are indicating the probability of reduced association with friends and family due to the mental condition.

Deviant Behavior

Online deviant behaviors by kids do refer to a large scope of activities; some are immoral while others are illegal but mostly both. Due to accessibility of information provided by the internet people of different views find one another and children can easily get access to these communities, thanks to the media. Such societies were previously hampered by community constraints, space, and time uses their virtual societies to spread their beliefs (Gackenbach 66). It is due to these reasons that kids who are frequent users of the internet exhibit deviant behavior more than their counterparts who are moderate users. As a result, recruiting teenagers into deviant groups online is common in many websites. Youngsters end up being sexual deviants, hate perpetrators, and self-harm inflictors. Teenagers with deviant behaviors receive segregation upon from not only their age mates but by teachers at school affecting their social life negatively.

Teenagers engaging in online activities are mostly prone to joining sexual deviant groups. This includes people surfing pornographic materials on daily basis and bug chasers who voluntary search for sexually transmitted diseases. These groups will change the mentality of youngster concerning certain crucial aspects on sexual issues. Online pornography is receiving a lot of attention and many groups are coming up in support for the usage of pornography. When teenagers get access to such groups, their attitude towards pornography completely changes (Hamburger 67). They are lead to believe that surfing pornographic materials and engaging in certain gross sexual behaviors in not wrong. Consequently, kids end up becoming sexual deviants and engage in activities that are either immoral or illegal believing the larger society has been wrong all along. A study conducted on basis of philosophy indicated that kids who access pornographic materials do score highly in psychoticism.

Self-harm is another common characteristics developed by teenagers engaging in online activities. Before the age of internet, self-harm groups were uncommon due to segregation by members of the society and many were times they succumbed to loneliness. However, with the advent of the internet, this is changing and most of them are forming communities of consolation. Adolescents surfing the net recorded the highest participation into the groups. Notably, many teenagers are changing the perception about self and in many cases causing self-harm. Reports indicate that it is difficult to use only the internet to persuade teenager to commit suicide, however the presence of internet and its application does play a major role. Ill-intentioned people use such groups to persuade adolescents to engage in self-starvation, suicide, or even self-injury (Joinson 90). In the United States, large portions of the youngsters committing suicide are active users of the internet and according to parents; they had no such behaviors at younger ages.

Finally, in deviant behavior category is the hate groups. According to research, most of the members in online hate groups are teenagers. This is because recruitment is crucial part of the group and is mostly due to the aging of a member. Most of the kids have a good perception regarding minor groups in the society due to values upheld in most modern communities to protect minor groups (Hamburger 34). All of this changes once they become members of these hate communities they come to hate certain groups. Once youngsters develop certain ideas about a given minor group may it have gender or racial basis, they tend to display contempt towards members of those racial or gender groups. This makes them prone to committing crimes against other people and while at the same time spreading hate speeches among their schoolmates and friends.

Violent behaviors

Many teenagers seek to use the internet for the purposes of entertainment. Unfortunately, most of the materials available on the internet contain violent scenes. According to research, before attaining the age of 18, the consumption of violent materials stands at 200,000 scenes (Gackenbach 57). Many of the television programs have ratings and parents easily prevent their children from viewing such movies. However, in the internet, they can access any of the movies they click on and mostly they are fond of violent scenes. Consequently, youngsters develop the notion that violence is part of life. Due to this change of attitude, any time the teenager gets in a confrontation with their age mates they end up engaging in violence. In the recent past, studies are indicating that adolescents engage in active violence more than older people. This is because internet is changing their attitude towards solving issues using ways that are more diplomatic.

The picture portrayed by violence in media is very different from the normal violence. Lots of exaggeration are evident and indicate violence that lack any criticism, remorse feelings, or even penalty. Accordingly, teenagers end up having a misguided belief that the treatment of violence by the real community is similar to that in the movies (Barak 68). Hence, they assume that the real people accept violence leading to them being aggressive. Such teenagers become aggressive to their schoolmates and at times harming their friends. According to a research conduct in Korea between January and June 2010, most of the aggressive kids in schooling institutions are active internet users. That is, the internet changes their attitude about handling disputes with their friends and teaches them that the only way is engage in violent activities. In many cases, these kids watched movies like Mortal Combat and they generate a belief that they can simulate characters contained therein.

Apart from being aggressors, teenagers grow to be paranoiac. Not all youngsters take the character of being aggressors others fear that these characters will haunt them and kill them. They will fear heights, fear water, and fear darkness. Most adolescences exhibiting such behaviors have been surfing the internet and not violent scenes but horror scenes. Websites from the internet is a good source of horror pictures and movies. Youngsters both willingly or unwillingly access the sites and can view such videos or pictures and consequently, they become fearful. Such adolescents develop a mental condition and require medical attention to stabilize them. Reports indicate that many of the youngsters in excessive usage of the internet develop a mental condition and most of the time the condition concerns being paranoia.

Conclusion

Internet usage by teenagers has been changing their attitudes concerning different aspects of life that are important in their lives (Barak 79). Accordingly, they change their notion about different things including sex, violence, and relations. Researchers are advising parents to enforce correct measures to reduce consumption of internet content. There are various ways that parents can use to prevent they kids from dangers of the internet. Notably, complete abstinence from the internet would be unreasonable since kids need internet for research and healthy entertainment. Furthermore, according to research moderate users of the internet exhibit no differences in comparison to those that are non-users. Hence, parents should not completely banish usage of internet by children but instead control it. This will prevent kids from contracting mental diseases such as atrophy of the mind and psychological conditions such as psychoticism. Works Cited

Hamburger, Amichai. The social net: Understanding human behavior in cyberspace. London: Oxford University Publishers, 2005. Print.

The book emphasizes on the effects of cyberspace on humans especially the younger generation. Its effect on their attitudes, feelings, inhibitions, and responsibility. It is a good resource to understanding these aspects in this paper.

White, Susan. Handbook of youth and internet. New York: Springer Publishers, 2001. Print.

A handbook on the usage of internet by youths and the implications of this usage on their life. The book reflects on both advantages, disadvantages of youths using the internet, and was a good resource on the same.

Kirsh, Steven. Media and youth: a developmental perspective. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons Publishers, 2009. Print.

The resource provided a review and critique of studies conducted on the issue of youths and media and included therein is internet usage. It gives an insight of many studies conducted by experts on how youths misuse the internet.

Barak, Azy. Psychological aspects of cyberspace: theory, research, applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Publishers, 2008. Print.

The book is more general though it also provides important information regarding the youth. Internet found widespread acceptance and the author note that attitudes and belief are changing.

Joinson, Adam .The Oxford handbook of Internet psychology. London: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.The book examines the revelations by psychologists who performed a series of studies. They have discovered various implications of internet on children. Furthermore, it reveals what youngsters do online making it a very resourceful book.

Gackenbach, Jayne. Psychology, the internet, and youth: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications. Harcourt: Academic Publishers, 2007. Print.

The book is insightful on the issues concerning intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications of youth on the internet. The writer provides a good resource of viewing the issue in different angles.

Florida Teaching Jobs – Is Teaching In Florida For You?

Teaching in Florida is fantastic. By teaching in Florida you get to combine one of the most rewarding professions in the world with one of the most rewarding lifestyles any state in the country has to offer. With year-round average temperatures of 72 degrees and over 340 days of sun a year, teaching in Florida offers the ideal lifestyle for any family.

However, getting a teaching job is different in every state. Therefore, to get a teaching job in Florida you need to know what to do…

While in some states the best approach is to search through the classifieds, one could look through the classifieds for hours and never find a teaching job in Florida. A more reliable source is the teacher recruitment website Teachers-Teachers.com. They are designed to assist you in finding that perfect teaching job in Florida (or any state for that matter). All you have to do is upload your teacher resume and other qualifications and the Florida schools that are looking for teachers will come to you.

Another approach to finding a teaching job in Florida is to attend various teacher job fairs. By visiting the TeachInFlorida.com website you can find out when and where each county is holding their teacher job fair. You can even register for the job fairs online.

What’s great is that even if you are unsure of which Florida County you would like teach in, Florida holds a huge multi-county teacher job fair called the “Great Florida Teach-In”. The “Great Florida Teach-In” is a perfect opportunity for teachers seeking employment opportunities anywhere in the state Florida. By attending this teacher job fair you not only meet the school district personnel, but you can also get information about living in the Florida counties.

Is the pay fair for Florida teachers?

While the Florida lifestyle is fantastic you should be warned that salaries for teaching jobs in Florida are slightly lower than the rest of the country. The average teacher salary nationwide is $46,000, where Florida teacher salaries average $45,000. However, while the pay may be slightly lower than the average, don’t forget, it is about a lifestyle change…having your kids play little league, join swim teams, play tennis, and go to the beach ALL YEAR LONG.

Of course, before you attend any Florida teacher job fair or apply to any Florida county school district you must first obtain certification to teach in Florida. There are different ways to get certified to teach in Florida depending on whether or not you are currently certified to teach in another state or currently going through a teacher education program. The best approach is to visit the TeachInFlorida.com website and go to the “recruitment” tab and then click on “certification”…then follow the simple steps on how to obtain a Florida teaching certification.

You will find that teaching in Florida is an extremely rewarding and enjoyable career. However, since it is so rewarding, finding teaching jobs in Florida can be quite difficult. For some reason there is a rumor that Florida is in desperate need for teachers. Unfortunately, the reality is with so many people changing careers and looking into teaching as a more rewarding profession, along with the fact that many people are relocating to Florida for the lifestyle, not to mention the fact that the baby boomers are NOT retiring in the numbers originally expected, Florida teaching jobs can be quite difficult to secure. However, with a little perseverance finding a teaching job in Florida is possible and well worth it.

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Individualized Education Program for Dyslexic Student

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Individualized Education Program for Dyslexic Student

I chose the first video featuring Alex as the student who was a dyslexic child. Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by difficulty to identify learning as well as speech sounds and how they are related to the words and letters. The reading disability affects the part of the brain that is associated with language (Sandman-Hurley, 2013). In order for the educator and the parents to help Alex become better, an Individualized Education Program was held by educators, parents and other relevant stakeholders. From the IEP meeting, Alex the student has several strengths including how she is an obedient and hardworking student who is often ready to help other people. Her challenge includes the fact that she is a shy student and in dealing with this the math teacher created a smaller group for her and thus she can be able to work with them. She is good at math and enjoys doing math related subjects. He is also dyslexic and needs help with reading at times so that he may have a better understanding. Because of his shyness he does not love to work with the groups.

The IEP meeting was parent friendly as the teachers gave the parents an opportunity to talk. It was an engaging conversation. The teachers were also mindful of what they said and how they said it. Even while giving the weaknesses that Alex has they were able to put in a way that made the comets seem that they are out of love and concern that they have for Alex as they would want the best for her. The team composed all the members require in order for the IEP meeting to be successful. The members present in the meeting were Alex, the student, Joe who is Alex’s father, Lia who is the students mother, Mrs. Parker the ATP who was chairing the meeting, Dry Sanchez the school psychologist, Mr. Ivan who was the note taker in the meeting. Mr. Brooks, a teacher, Miss Emily who is Alex’s English teacher, Mrs. Sarah who is Alex’s math teacher. The room used was also not a class setting and was friendly. I did notice however there was no representative from the district. The district representative plays a very important role especially when it comes to placement of the student which includes ant classroom or building changes that may be suggested (Ruppar, 2011). The district representative is also important in approving services that may be seen as beyond the normal protocol. Aside from the representative, all the other members needed in an IEP meeting were present.

Meting protocol was followed, Mrs. Parker who was the one chairing the meeting first introduced herself then later everyone introduced themselves. The agenda being discussed had already been printed out in the paper prior to the meeting. She then went ahead to specify the agenda for the meeting which would involve creating a plan that would help Alex to study better as she was dyslexic. She gave an opportunity first to the parents to state what they thought of their daughter ad later the teacher gave their comments on the strengths and weaknesses that Alex have including her favorite subject to her least favorite subject. The protocols were followed and all the papers signed. Every member who had attended the meeting had to sign the document before leaving affirming that all had been discussed and recommendation on bow to help Alex had been made (Zeitlin, 2014). There was need for follow up especially on the recommendations that were made including encouraging reading at home with the help of the parents.

A child’s history is important in helping the child become better and also helps the educators have a better understanding on how they would handle. In Alex’s case, one important information would be how the child behaves while at home be it her social life or how she handles academic. For example, information from the parents on whether the child is shy also around the friends at home. This will help the educators understand if it is the school setting that makes him shy or does the discrimination from the other students tend to make him shy and afraid of interacting with other students. Another important history would be the psychologist or medical practitioners he may have seen and what they had to say about the child. This will help the educators have a better understanding of your child’s need thus creating a perfect way to help the student improve and build on his weaknesses to become strengths. The child’s needs were put in front instead of their needs. The discussion that the educators had was to identify what ways the teacher would help the students. They did not bring up matter such as student placement. The meeting clearly indicates that Alex’s education needs were outlined first and very clearly.

A child with special needs such as dyslexic home environment is important. She needs to feel the love and support from the parents that they are ready to help her out. If a child is constantly being condemned and being made to feel that all mistakes were her fault, she may develop a hate towards herself and may eventually not work on her weaknesses. However, a child who constantly receives love and care from home is most likely to become a better student. IT is therefore important to understand the environment she leaves in by asking questions that will help the educators know her life. By understanding the background as well as the environment the evaluation will help describe the student’s needs, their current performance as well as behaviors and services or techniques that may have been employed in the past that has seen her improve.

As an educator dealing with a dyslexic child, exercising patience is important. Including Alex into the school environment will help her become better by helping her to be more outgoing and free with the other students. One strategy that may be put in place that may help Alex is employing memory aid as it has been proved there exist certain tricks that may help a child remember a word. A rhyme often referred to as mnemonics can be used so a child may associate something to the word that they are learning. Multisensory learning may be employed for Alex where senses are used such as sight and hearing in order to help the student. Use of multisensory learning has been found to help learners remember what they have been taught and it is an approach that can be used on all the students. Educational games are also an important strategy that can help Alex out. With technology, there are educational apps that have been created that will help dyslexic patients improve their learning (Bjorklund, 2011). Educators have often pointed out that dyslexic children are just as much as likely to become successful like other students if the educators implement strategies and program that makes it easier for them to learn.

References

Björklund, M. (2011). Dyslexic students: Success factors for support in a learning environment. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(5), 423-429.

Ruppar, A. L., & Gaffney, J. S. (2011). Individualized education program team decisions: A preliminary study of conversations, negotiations, and power. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 36(1-2), 11-22.

Sandman-Hurley, Kelli. (2013). “Of dyslexia.” TED-Ed Lessons Worth Sharing.

Zeitlin, V. M., & Curcic, S. (2014). Parental voices on individualized education programs:‘Oh, IEP meeting tomorrow? Rum tonight!’. Disability & Society, 29(3), 373-387.