It is widely acknowledged that children in recent years spend long hours on tablets and screens, a behaviour that is enforced by their parents as it is believed that it will effectively develop their technological skills. While there are certainly positive aspects associated with this phenomenom, it is imperative to also consider the potential drawbacks that accompany it.
To begin with, one significant advantage of spending long hours on tablets and screens is that the content that is offered to the children cannot be replaced by any physical material, like books or board games. More specifically, children, while using tablets or screens, spend their time playing online games or watching videos, many of these are educational and teach children in a more interactive way how to improve their technological skills. In that way, children learn faster as they are offered funnier and more vivid methods to practice the new skills that they are learning.
On the other hand, there are obvious downsides on the increased amount of time spent on screens and tablets. Children who spend long hours on a screen, might develop consentration problems, because the materials that are presented to them change so fast that they learn to focus on one thing for a shorter time. For instance, they are offered a vast variety of different games and videos leading them to easily change from one another as soon as they get bored. These problems could prevent children from effectively developing their technological skills as they will not be able to focus in order to understand what it is presented to them.
In conclusion, having looked at this topic in detail, it is clear that there are both advantages and disadvantages. From my perspective, tablets and screen time should be limited to children, in order for them to correctly develop their technological skills and avoid any consentration issues that could limit their performance.