Pros and Cons About ICT in Early Childhood

As we know, technology is important in this Era. So, parents and teacher have to introduce technology to children as it has many functions. However, there are the pros and cons of technology for children.

Pros

1. Develop Fine Motor Skills.

- By pushing keys with their little finger, children can develop their fine motor skills. Plus, these fine motor movement also help children's eye-hand coordination as the children focus on the screen as they play games.

2. Self Esteem. 

- Technology is changing the way children all learn and it can have a positive impact on kids and their reading. By adding gadget like tablet e-readers to the classroom, children's self-esteem and confidence level rises. technology also gives children who have grown up in an age of smartphones and computers another outlet with which they are familiar to grow and learn. Building self esteem through applied technology and increased reading skills can have a positive ripple-effect on every other area of children's life.

3. Gain More Knowledge.

- There are a lot benefits that we can use technology for the children to gain more knowledge and information. The children can learn and gain more knowledge by e-books, educational source from the internet, software with appropriate guidelines. Other that we can minimize the usage paper by using electronic gadget at school. School uses hundred stacks of paper every year for students work sheet. This is not a good condition for our eco environment. Therefore, using electronic device or gadget can overcome this problem and be more environmental friendly.

4. Motivate To Learn.

- Technology such as computer, television and multimedia that using various of colour and moving image can provide challenge for children and increase their passion to learn. 

5. Social Development.

- ICT already affect the people and environments that surround young children's learning. Children can keep connection and relationships with their friends by calling through phone, Facebook, twitter, Skype 

and etc. 

Cons

1. Become Addicted.

- It is a bad thing when children play with technology without parent's attention. Children will addict to the technology as they want to play with it all the time.

2. Social Relationship. 

- Technological gadgets have posed a bad impact on social relationship. Children are addicted to gadgets, They don't have time to sit with their parents and to spend good time with them. They prefer to connect with their friends and relatives via text messaging, chatting and etc, rather than meeting them actually. Means, they are connected with others in virtual world, but not in the real world.

3. Health Problem.

- Electronic devices can be risk for the children's health. The radiation from the electronic devices can cause harm to the user's health. A part of that, using gadget such as computer, ipad or phone also can bring damage to eyes and also because enjoying digital devices tends to be a sedentary pastime, children may be more susceptible to weight gain.

4. Expensive.

- To get a technology is not easy. Parents or school have provide money to buy some of technology like computer because the technology is quite expensive. 

5. Laziness in Studying.

- Computers make it so easy to find answers that children barely have to look for them. This may result in them having poor study habits and developing a lazy attitude towards their education.