Study Using Gadget for Young Learners Should be Prohibited

Everything in the world can be change caused by technology. Especially for

young learners. In this case most of them have a personal mobile phone. Parents who
had sufficiency necessity let their chidren having personal mobile phone. They often do
not know the threat for children who have personal mobile phone. Now, children easier
than ever to access the internet. The threat can come from the child or from the
environment around them. Children of elementary school still needs control from their
parents because at that time they still undergo development. There are some vices when
young learners have personal mobile phone that disturbing the growth and development
of them.

Mobile phones and Internet have the great role in making advantages. Students
can study in collaborative and add their knowledge. They can do research for their
schoolwork and homework. They also explore the material from teacher. If they do not
understand, they search the examples that correlated with the material by using internet
access. On the other hand, spending time on the mobile phone have a negative impact
on young learners. By personal mobile phone students had personal tend to focus on
mobile phone than to the around them. According to one expert information technology
from Bandung Institute of Technology ( ITB ), Dimitri Mahayana said that 5-10 percent
gadgets mania or addict gadgets accustomed to touch their gadget 100 and 200 times a
day. When people exertion effective 16 hours or 980 minutes a day and those addict
gadgets would touch its officials 14.8 per minute. In other word, young learners has low
social life because do not socialize with people around them. Beside it, their
concentration to subject in the school become low. Until the term autism for everyone
who is focus and enjoy with their gadget because they become quiet and less social
personality. A research Imperial College from London reveals that children under twelve
years old who supplied a gadget is susceptible the negative effect from it. Seen again of
one case in England there are a girl 4 years old had to take care of psychiatrist caused by
addiction of IPod. She is believed that she not the only children were having compulsive
due to use gadgets excessive in the an early age. There are still be many as this said
Dr Richard Graham of Capio Nightngale Clinic.

Technologies such as android can be a tool of entertainment and learning for

children. they can see videos who entertains as positive cartoon and other videos which
build their creativity and will give more insight for children with information who
procures from video through programs dealing with education. All Information over the
world is also he could obtain through network, help them in teaching and learning
process. On the other side there are several developments that need for young learners.
One of them is the development of motor and in that time the development of motor
being process. With has personal mobile phone children tending to shut up and their

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development of motor will be threatened. A place where children do iscillating , active
with their friends who the same age instead make children be quiet and less active.
According to the law Number 20 years 2003 article 28 stated that early childhood
education took place before the level of education for basic education (Lentera
Pendidikan, vol. 12 no 1 June 2009: 48 ). Education give priority to increase motor
intelligence, think intelligence, emotion intelligence, language and communications
shows that early childhood is asset the future that must be in noticed on every stage the
progress. If the children havent a personality disorder, they will have appropriate
characteristic with society expectation. They do personality adjustment and right
personality. Opposite it, the children who can not do personality adjustment, in their
soul growing unable feel that demoralizing to try what their friends have to study from
their explore.

There are one great effect emerge from the use of mobile phone for young
learners. They having a satisfied as they could find anything through the internet. They
can expanding a friendship so that they have many friends use to exchange information.
Practice foreign language by chatting through E-mail, Facebook, Twitter and others to
friends in other countries is one activity to get many friends. On the other side some
researchers found the effect mobile phone radiation affect workings of the brain on the
kids who is still developing. World Health Organization ( WHO ) expressing radiation
cell phone causing brain tumor. Radiation of cell phone categorized same with a
dangerous carcinogenic substance like lead, smoke from transportations, and
chloroform. In addition report from the International EMF ( Electromagnetic Field )
Collaborative that written the group of researchers international ever admitting the
possibility of appearing the cancer caused by using cell phone, moreover for children.
We recommend more attention for children who wears cell phone because the network
of their brains are still in the stage development. Said Terry Svain of Occupation and
Environmental Cancer Committee. The effects of radiation in children very dangerous
because their brain is still thriving and vulnerable to radiation. Brain tumors usually
growing for over 30 to 40 years. Young learners who use mobile phone in early eges
will have the period of time longer before seen that impact. Someone do not know if the
children will be easier vulnerable to radiation. The researchers at the National
Radiology Protection Board, England, said that electromagnetic radiation resulting from
the mobile phone can damage DNA and resulting in brain tumors. Parents shouldnt
give mobile phone for children aged 8 years or under it as a precaution disorder
radiation from that devices. When using cell phone, 70-80 percent energy of radiation
emitted from an antenna the mobile phone absorbed by the head. Even, some research
shows, the impact of the negative long-term of absorption the radiation emitted by
mobile phone. Unfortunately, only some research focused on children Said Prof Henry
Lai of the Washington University, United Stated.

To conclude, the use of gadgets for students should be restricted. Those who still
take a lot of new knowledge need to get supervision of parents. Using gadgets that made

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them to focus on gadgets than their lesson from school. In addition information that is
not they were due to receive the possibility greater. Stage of children motor
development was disturbed because of they use gadgets too often. They tended to still
quiet and did not move far. Whereas the development of children motor are required in
complete their development. More dangerous is radiation from gadgets very easy to
attack their brain and cause a death. So, by the existence of various application gadgets
who break the character of a child an early age in terms of mental development and how
to interact with its environment cause disequilibrium in the process of development their
psychological. Should to the cases have published by many medias can be used as the
beam and advice for parents in educating their children through some approaches.