Positive and Negative

Effects of Tablet Use

Among Children
Aicha Souidi, Aj Blitz, Catherine Campbell, Edward Henriquez,
and Lena Lambrou

Agenda
1. Childrens Health
2. Exposure to Advertisements
3. Language Development
4. Social Implications (Social Skills)
5. Recommendations for Parents
6. Questions

Childrens
Health

Impact on Childrens Health

Negative effects:
Childrens Sleep
Overstimulation
Development of
Obesity
Poor Habits

New Topics
Connecting
the Negative
effects
Addiction
Effects on the
Brain

Babies and Toddlers Should Learn from Play Not Screens. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2015, from
https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/Babies-and-Toddlers-Should-Learn-from-Play-Not-Screens.aspx

No educational
value

Addiction
3 characteristics of Addictive games:
Flow
Fiero
Fun Failure (Or Frustration)

Kompa, J. S. (2011). CBT-IA: The First Treatment Model for Internet Addiction. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 25(4), 304312.
http://doi.org/10.1891/0889-8391.25.4.304

Effects on the Brain

Gardners Concept of Multiple
Intelligences
Neuroplasticity of a Childs Brain
Language, Logic, reasoning

Kompa, J. S. (2011). CBT-IA: The First Treatment Model for Internet Addiction. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 25(4), 304312.

Exposure
To
Advertise
ments

Exposure to Advertisements
Last Time:
In app purchases
Children's Views on Ads
How Ads specifically Target Children
Now:
Mobile game critters
Impact of food advertising obesity
the Big Business of advertising to
children

Mobile Critters

Mom, Please Feed My Apps!

Joshua loves breeding and
caring for a virtual variety of
big eye colored creatures in
an iPad game called tiny
Zoo
A., ANTE, S., &
After playing Tiny Zoo for TROIANOVSKI,
VASCELLARO, J. (2012, June
60 seconds a message pops 11). Mom, Please Feed My
Apps! Retrieved December 4,
up asking if the player needs2015, from
more coins to buy a differenthttp://www.wsj.com/articles/SB
100014240527023037539045
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character for $99.99
The Federal Trade Commission

Ads Leading to Obesity

Food industry advertising that
targets children and youth
has been linked to the
increase of childhood
obesity.
Advertising by other industries
often objectifies girls and
women,
contributing
to body
American
Psychological
Association (2009).
Resolution on
dissatisfaction,
eating
promotion
of healthy active lifestyles
and prevention of
obesity
and unhealthylow
weight
control behaviors in children and
disorders,
self-esteem
youth.
Washington,
D.C.: Author. Retrieved from
and
depression.
http://www.apa.org/about/policy/chapter-12b.aspx.
Many adolescents, particularly

The BIG Business

$15-17 billion is spent by

companies advertising to
children in the US.
Over $4 billion was spent
in 2009 by the fast food
industry alone.
Children (up to 11) spend
around $18 billion
Shah, A. (n.d.). Children as Consumers. Retrieved D
Kids today are bombarded
from http://www.globalissues.org/article/237/childre
with a constant barrage
of these advertisements

Language
Developm
ent

Language
Last time
Fun, Easy, Engaging!
Too many kids are left alone
Increase in school use
Benefits special needs

Now
Culture
Difference in parents

Culture Vs. Language

Japan
70 vs 53
EU
70 vs 45
US
70 vs 30
Bilingual
First Language
0-8: Young children 's Tablet use.
(2013, November 7). Retrieved
December 7, 2015, from
http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcont
ent.cgi?
article=1262&context=ecuworks2
013

Language
Japanese parents spend a significant
amount of time around their children
with tablets
American parents need to be around
more

Social
Implication
s

Social Implications:
Last Time
Overview
Now
Face-to-Face
Interactions
Non-Verbal
Communicatio
n
Handling Conflict
Building
Relationships

Study
Developing Empathy
Imaginative Play
Looking into the
future..
More
Communication

Social Implications: Study

HomeNet Study- Funded by Carnegie
Mellon University
Found that there was a positive
correlation between the amount
of time spent online and declines
in social and psychological wellbeing in children ages 2-17
Fink, R. S. (1976). ROLE OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Read More: http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?
journalCode=pr0. Psychological Reports, 39(3), 895-906. Retrieved from http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?journalCode=pr0

Social Implications:
Empathy- MoralEmpathy
imagination is the
Developing

capacity to empathize with others,

i.e., not just to feel for oneself, but
to feel with and for others. This is
something that education ought to
cultivate and that citizens ought to
bring to politics.
Cotton, K. (n.d.). Developing Empathy in Children and Youth. Antelope Springs
Counseling. Retrieved from http://www.antelopespringscounseling.com/
documents/articles/EmpathyChildrenYouth.pdf

Social Implications:
Developing
Empathy
High levels of empathy
have also been
linked with more prosocial behavior

Empathy is not something that

children are born with. They learn it
from their friends and family, from
imitating those around them
This doesnt happen when a mother
just hands the child an ipad to play
with
Cotton, K. (n.d.). Developing Empathy in Children and Youth. Antelope Springs
Counseling. Retrieved from http://www.antelopespringscounseling.com/
documents/articles/EmpathyChildrenYouth.pdf

Social Implications:
Piagets Theory- Imaginative
play is a
Imaginative
Play
function of how the young child is
capable of thinking. The child
interacts with and understands his
environment largely in terms of
egocentric assimilation of it rather
than with the means of logical
concepts.
Fink, R. S. (1976). ROLE OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Read More:
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?journalCode=pr0.
Psychological Reports, 39(3), 895-906. Retrieved from
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?journalCode=pr0

Social Implications:
Teaches children how to control their
Imaginative
Play
emotions and helps develop their cognitive
skills.
Imaginative play is a function of how the
young child is capable of thinking. The
child interacts with and understands his
environment largely in terms of egocentric
assimilation of it rather than with the
means of logical concepts.
Fink, R. S. (1976). ROLE OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Read More:
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?journalCode=pr0.
Psychological Reports, 39(3), 895-906. Retrieved from
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1976.39.3.895?journalCode=pr0

Highly structured toys do not lend

Social Implications:
So much is lost in translation
Communication
Sharon Seline Case
Hiding true emotions
Impact on childrens futures- Melissa
Ortega
Job interviews?
Talking to teachers/professors?

Bindley, B. (n.d.). When Children Text All Day, What Happens To Their Social Skills? Macmillan Seminars. Retrieved from
http://www.macmillanseminars.com.pe/articles/febrero2012/Think21st_pdf.pdf

Dealing with problems/conflicts?

Social Implications: Hiding

Gives people
false sense of security
Behind
a aScreen
Causes children to act in ways they
normally wouldnt
Cyber bullying
Sexting
Privacy Threats
Clinical ReportThe Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families. (2011). American Academy of
Pediatrics, 127(4), 800 804. Retrieved fromhttp://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800.full.pdf+html

Peer pressure

Recomme
ndations
for
parents

Tablets &
Focus on: ELearning
Reading
tablets have had
positive effects on
learning across
different age
groups
e-reading sparked
interest in reading

Recommend
ations
1-2 HOur Rule

Children Under 2 years

old: no screen time

Family Rules
Encourage Old Fashioned
PLay Time
Brown, A. (2011, November 1). Media Use by Children Younger Than 2 Years. Retrieved December 5, 2015, from
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/5/1040#ref-41

More Active Parenting

Brain Development. (n.d.). Retrieved December 5, 2015, from http://cmch.tv/parents/brain-development/

Media and Children. (n.d.). Retrieved December 5, 2015, from

https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/pages/media-and-children.aspx

No Screens in the Bedroom

Strasburger, V. C., Jordan, A. B., & Donnerstein, E.

(2012). Children, Adolescents, and the Media::
Health Effects. Pediatric Clinics of North America,
59(3), 533587.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2012.03.025

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