▶ Your Answer : It is debatable whether educating children is more difficult today than it was in the past because they spend too much time on cell phone, online games, and social networking Website. It is an intriguing question because opinions concerning this issue can be different relying on the individual perspectives. In my opinion, however, I do not support that education children is more difficult nowadays for the following reasons. To begin with, the advent of technology such as cell phone, online games, and social networking websites enable teaching children more effective instead of difficult. These can be very useful and interesting tool to learn subjects. I will take an example of my younger brother to illustrate this point. My younger brother who goes to elementary school study English using smart phone. He make a phone call via his smart phone to his English tutor who lives in the United States on a regular basis. In addition, he has a lot of online friends around the world, and he donstantly send and recieve massage with them in English using social network sevice such as twitter of facebook. Therefore, he speaks and writes Enlgish whenever he wants and wherever he goes. As as result, he became very good at English, even better than me. This shows that these new techonology can be an useful method for educating children. On top of that, children can relieve stress by spending time on cell phone, online games, and social networking website. Children are able to learn efficiently when they take a break regularly. There was a study conducted by Seoul national University proves this. The former group was consisted of students who studied 2 hours with no break. and the latter group as formed of students who studeid same period of time and take a break for 20 minutes doing online games with the same material. After that they took the same tests and the result was intriguing. The latter group got higher score. The latter group students said that they could concentrate better after they did online game. This is because they can focus on their study better since ther are refreshed. In this regard, I frimly believe that educating children is not harder these days. New technology such as cell phone or online games is not an obstacle but a stimulater for children education as long as it is used in proper way. |