Sentences with phrase «computer has on their children»

But a lot of people worry about the influence, which the computer has on their children.

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In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Now run a long, it is a school night and I'm sure Mommy wouldn't appreciate her little grade 2 child being on the computer so late!

In the current Israeli - Palestinian conflict, pictures of terrorized children and suicide bombings have appeared on our computer screens.

But as Bill maher once said: «I could believe in the Bible if it would mention one of the following words: electricity, nuclear power, computer, laser and evolution... Instead the god in the OT kills over 2 million men, women and children for being disobedient or collecting sticks on a Sabbath.

A second source of national - level data on intake of SSBs in children was an analysis of the 2007 Australian Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (33), which was a computer - assisted 24 - h dietary recall survey of 4400 nationally representative children aged 2 — 16 y. On the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012 surveon intake of SSBs in children was an analysis of the 2007 Australian Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (33), which was a computer - assisted 24 - h dietary recall survey of 4400 nationally representative children aged 2 — 16 y. On the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012children was an analysis of the 2007 Australian Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (33), which was a computer - assisted 24 - h dietary recall survey of 4400 nationally representative children aged 2 — 16 y. On the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (33), which was a computer - assisted 24 - h dietary recall survey of 4400 nationally representative children aged 2 — 16 y. On the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012children aged 2 — 16 y. On the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012 surveOn the day of the survey, 47 % of children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012children reported having consumed SSBs, which was similar to the percentage that was reported in the 2011 — 2012 survey.

Lastly, the most important piece, if you put parental control software on your child's computer, you have to take ownership in administering it.

The entry point into using the Kano system are the instruction booklets which show the user (adult or child) how to connect up all of the equipment and get the pre-loaded Kano software literally telling you what to do (using the speaker of course) Once you have (satisfyingly) managed to boot up the Raspberry Pi, Kano's built in software installed on the operating system guides you through increasingly more complex tasks teaching you how to use the computer and start to write your own code.

Another example would be a child who is going to go play basketball in a closed gymnasium or go to a computer class on the weekend.

Log on and let your child compose words on the computer (depending on her age and dexterity you may have to help her).

With the coming of the computer age and the development of computer games, Wii, PlayStation and the like, parents are not only dealing with less space for their children to run and play, also with safety issues from human wickedness as well as massively increased traffic on the roads, but they now too have to pull their children away from sedentary entertainment like those listed above and find ways to keep them more active.

I have two rooms full of toys and musical things, like electric keyboard, older computer to learn things on «ABC.com», (a subscription service for 2 + yrs old children), and battery operated toys that are musical, or talk, or walk, or beep, or run, blocks and puzzles, plush toys and soft rubber balls, and when no babies around, I blow up lots of balloons which they throw up in the air and try to catch, or I bring out all the «kitchen stuff» (a collection of plastic dish sets, plastic fake food and utensils, and a big tablecloth I lay it all on and then pick it all up with until next time).

If your child has a school laptop or computer at home, these fun «sticker» designs go on fast and come off easy.

Before the Kano he wasn't very computer savvy at all as I tend to avoid the children playing on tablets and computers too much, but now is very knowledgable and has been asking lots of questions about coding and what he can try next.

It does make you wonder, doesn't it, the huge increase in children on medication for ADHD, the children who have poor social skills and the children who have no impulse control, which we've seen increase dramatically over the past 20 years, since we have had more screens in the household — be they TV, DVD, computer, X-box etc — makes you wonder....

Having plenty of toys on hand is also a way to tempt your child away from the all - too - alluring computer.

This is popular with parents who do not have much time to spend helping their children or preparing lessons, and for children who enjoy working via the computer rather than on paper.

There is not a doubt in my mind their children aren't begging for their attention... hanging on them, having tantrums all in an effort to get them to put the phone / computer down and show them the attention they deserve.

Children who always have their eyes fixed on a smartphone or computer screen also tend to ignore their parents, which causes communication problems.

Children truly need to be supervised while on the computer and making it impossible to delete browsing history can be a great way to see what they have been doing.

At one point I had three children doing school on one computer and they were able to take turns and finish before dinner without a problem.

If I were in a white - collar financial crimes division, investigating someone for corporate espionage, and found evidence of participation in a child pornography ring on their computer, I think people would be hard - pressed to argue that I should not pass that information along to other law enforcement people.

He was reporting to the parliamentary committee on human rights a week after it emerged HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has lost two computer discs containing personal information of child benefit claimants.

It has been a crime to possess child pornography on computers since 1996, but a court ruled earlier this year that it was not a crime to simply view it on a website.

The parents who do this are also supportive of their children's education in other ways, they talk to them about their homework, they have books at home, they have computers and a good Internet connection, and so on.

The game will use principles derived from existing programmes used in adults with visual field loss, whereby patients have to search for hard - to - find objects on a computer screen (a «visual search» task), but the game will be modified to make the task more stimulating and fun for children and structured to maximise the efficiency of learning.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

The successful amendment, proposed by ranking committee member Ralph Hall (R — TX), would prohibit using any funds authorized «to pay the salary of any individual disciplined... for viewing, downloading, or exchanging pornography, including child pornography,» on government time or with a government computer.

People are turning in (former) friends; one parent wanted to inform on a child who'd copied his son's computer game.

A computer model can give couples an idea of when to start trying for their first child, based on their desired family size and whether they'd consider IVF

On neuropsychological tests such as letter - sequence recognition on a computer, ADHD children have varied but frequently slower reaction timeOn neuropsychological tests such as letter - sequence recognition on a computer, ADHD children have varied but frequently slower reaction timeon a computer, ADHD children have varied but frequently slower reaction times.

In my 30 - year career in education, I have seen schools embrace desktop computers and then laptops, and now I am working to demonstrate how the latest additions to the world of technology — mobile devices — can be used to create hands - on, immersive, transformative learning activities that will ensure that the UK's children receive the best opportunities in today's connected world.

Indeed, recent studies have evidenced that the physical movements involved in writing by hand, versus typing on a computer, are key parts of the thinking process that allows children to retain information.

But consider these three parallel and seemingly independent phenomena: More than 98 percent of all children and young people play video games; the time devoted to social networking, whether on Facebook or newer platforms, has grown explosively; and the favored means of both information - seeking and communications, especially among young people, is no longer via computers or laptops but smartphones.

Experiences with the computer need to grow out of early reliance on simple tools that depend on and develop the skills of the child rather than complex tools, which have so many skills already built in.

According to the survey data, about 72 percent of children 8 and under do have computer access at home in this country, but there are disparities, again, based on income.

Ebuyer.com has compiled its five top tips on how parents can support their child to learn computer programming:

That school has placed a lot of emphasis on letting these poor children work with computers, learn how to use computers, learn how to learn with computers.

There are many people I come in contact with on a regular basis who assume that any child under the age of 18, were they given a computer, would automatically know how to use it.

Though e-books have been available for children to read on computers for some time, they are receiving quite a bit of attention recently due to the development of new, more mobile platforms on which to view them.

We find that young children in the later period are exposed to more books and reading in the home, they have more access to educational games on computers, and they engage with their parents more, both inside and outside the home.

It has dispatched 1,000 inspectors armed with tablet computers to conduct basic checks on whether schools are operating and staff and children are turning up.

Computers do this for us and I wonder the impact these have on children learning spelling.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

In a study on young children's access to computers at home and at school, the defining characteristics that demarcate «haves» from «have - nots» are racial / ethnic and economic.

Computers can adapt on the fly to an individual child's mistakes or successes, and that would be impossible for a teacher in a class of 25 - 30 kids.

While the child who is hyperactive has a very brief attention span in virtually every situation (usually except for television or computer games), children who are gifted can concentrate comfortably for long periods on tasks that interest them, and do not require immediate completion of those tasks or immediate consequences.

A University of Maryland researcher has a message for parents who fret about how much time their preteen children spend on computers: Worry not.

He estimated about 1,100 children have been enrolled and taking instruction from Tennessee - based teachers via computer since the virtual school opened its «doors» on Aug. 8.

Since 2011, the Mayor's Office has partnered with Comcast on a program aimed at closing the homework gap by providing $ 10 - a-month broadband internet and $ 150 computers to low - income families with school - age children.