Part 1: I interviewed Mrs friedman, teacher a heritage high school. She teaches Marketing, a class where we learn about the real world, and learn that marketing is all around us whether we are buying or selling products, or its being advertised to us. When i interviewed her, she had a lot to say about how technology affects children so much. She has 2 kids who are both very young, she doesn’t believe that children should get technology so young. Friedman said “technology is affecting the lives of children everyday without many parents noticing.” She thinks that because of covid, parents got children technology to keep them busy, causing many problems with not only mental health but physical too. Children aren’t getting the right education anymore, using technology to learn, not knowing how to write, spell, or read. Children are using chromebooks at the beginning of elementary school, which is way to learn, and them don’t even know the basic things like reading. Friedman said “as the generation keeps getting younger the technology is being handed to them younger age each year.” She also believes that children are being exposed to technology in important ways, everything is on the internet and can be seen. Children should not be knowing about certain inappropriate things at such a young age.
Part 2: This photo represents life before kids having technology. It was painted in 1990 when kids were not being torn apart by technology and distracted by it. They are dressed in those outfits to represent how it’s considered “old” to not be around technology because of how normalized it is. As you can see, everyone in the picture is happy and enjoying eachothers company’s while nowadays kids are sitting with their technology and not interacting with each other. This is an upcoming problem because kids are now going to lose their social skills and not be as successful with making friends and having core relationships.
Source- https://www.indiaart.com/childrens-art/child-art-details/22213/cave-man-and-today-s-technology
