Read, carefully, the texts below and answer the questions.

The effects of technology on children are complicated, with both benefits and costs.
Whether technology helps or hurts in the development of your childrens thinking
depends on what specific technology is used and how and what frequency it is used. At
least early in their lives, parents have the power to dictate your childrens relationship
with technology and, as a result, its influence on them, from synaptic activity to
conscious thought.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201212/how-technology-is-
changing-the-way-children-think-and-focus

So what is the impact of technology on the developing child? Childrens developing

sensory, motor, and attachment systems have biologically not evolved to accommodate
this sedentary, yet frenzied and chaotic nature of todays technology. The impact of
rapidly advancing technology on the developing child has seen an increase of physical,
psychological and behavior disorders that the health and education systems are just
beginning to detect, much less understand. Child obesity and diabetes are now national
epidemics in both Canada and the U.S., causally related to technology overuse.
Diagnoses of ADHD, autism, coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible
speech, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, depression, and sleep
disorders are associated with technology overuse, and are increasing at an alarming
rate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cris-rowan/technology-children-negative-
impact_b_3343245.html

Now you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want, for as long as you want.
Yes, this means children are spending more time in front of screens, but it also means
that by the time they leave primary school many of them have research and technology
skills way beyond their parents, said Spencer Yates, managing partner at Tangent
Snowball. []Tablets or smartphones allow children to access a wide range of
educational apps and services that can help boost their maths and logic skills, packaged
in the appealing form of a game.
Holly Seddon, editor of the parenting and technology community Quibly, suggests that a
good a technology-based gift could be a subscription to Mathletics, an online maths
learning platform based around games and challenges, or Minecraft, a creative block-
building game that pushes the bounds of logical and critical thinking. []
These experiences allow children to take control of the world around them, enabling
them to develop their creativity and ideas in a way they never have before. However, the
responsibility also lies with parents to keep up with new technology and make sure their
children are using it safely and sensibly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10529785/How-technology-is-changing-
childhood.html
1. Choose the best answer. (0,5)
a) Text 1 says that all types of technology have a bad influence on the development
of kids.
b) Text 1 argues that that the main control of technologys impact lies with the
parents.
c) Text 1 states that parents cannot control the use of technology of their children.
d) Text 1 says that the technologys effects vary depending on the ages of the
children.

2. Mark the correct option. (0,5)

a) Text 2 states that human beings are not easily adapted to technology.
b) Text 2 argues that a wide number of studies and experts have extensive
knowledge about the impacts of technology.
c) Text 2 suggests that the overuse of technology can cause impacts on our body,
emotions, brain and ways of acting.
d) Text 2 states that technology evolve at a slow pace.

3. Choose the correct answer. (0,5)

a) Text 3 states that technology can be used by kids in a positive way, to evolve
their abilities through games, apps and platforms.
b) Text 3 suggests that kids dont know how to explore all the rich services that
technology can offer.
c) Text 3 argues that all the children are responsible regarding the use of
technology.
d) Text 3 says that children spend too much time in front of screens.

4. Match the 2 columns. (1,0)

(a) Text 1 ( ) Emphasizes the benefits of technology
(b) Text 2 ( ) Argues that there are two sides of technology, positive and negative

(c) Text 3 ( ) Presents the negative aspects and impacts of technology in children

5. Summarize all the positive and negative aspects of the texts in the chart below.
(1,5)

Positive aspects Negative aspects

6. With which author do you agree more? Why? Give a complete answer based on
arguments. (2,0)
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