"Kids Really are Different These Days"

Summary:
Dianna Coyl discusses in "Kids Really are Different These days" how over time and especially recently that kids have changed. She goes on to talk about how kids have changed with physical development, media and technology, self understanding, and emotional competence. However, i mostly will speak about how media and technology has changed kids today by altering the way they may think and do things.

Reflection:
The meaning behind this article is that over time kids have changed. Specifically, media and technology have been a big part of this rapid change among kids because according to the article, with increased importance of technology in a kid's life impacts social and communicative development. Today, nearly 82 % of kids are online by the 7th grade. Also have approximately 6.5 hours of media exposure every day. To me that is remarkable how all these kids not only have access but are allowed to spend a ridiculous amount of time on the internet. This also has a direct impact on the physically development of kids in my opinion. I say this because the more time kids are inside on the internet, playing video games, watching TV, or just sitting there texting, is less time that they are outside doing something. Any type of physical activity whether its baseball, soccer, tag, etc. would be better. Also the article goes on to explain how the brain isn't capable of multitasking, like a lot of people thought. I agree with that because i find it very hard to focus one more than one thing. When you try to do more than one thing at time you actually aren't saving time you are losing time.

Tie In:
This article ties in with the other two in that they all speak to how media and technology are altering the way people think, act, and or develop. In this article it speaks to how technology affects social and communicative development. Moreover, how multitasking actually slows you down and increases you chance of errors. Like Kord Campbell in "Attached to Technology and Paying A Price," when he didn't even notice an email about an offer that eventually made him a millionaire for 12 days because he was so distracted with all of his technology. Due to his multitasking he nearly cost himself all that money. Then of course in "Is Google making us Stupid," Carr talks about how technology is changing the way people do things. More specifically how they read. In order to be able to process all of the information available to us now, our brains have been altered to only skim through articles instead of reading them thoroughly. Then in Coyl's article she talks about how media multitasking forces the brain to perform sequential processing. Rather it is like skim reading in order to get through all of the information. Through all of this, technology is changing the way people think and act.