the effects of technology on healthful living of students authors suresh g. isave, associate...
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The Effects of Technology on Healthful Living of Students
Authors
Suresh G. Isave,
Associate Professor,
Tilak College of Education, Pune
Dr. Bhushan T. Patil
Principal,
Azam College of Education for Women,
Pune.
Introduction
• Technology is playing important role in day to day life.
• It has a vital role in education.• Students are correlated with technolgy at
school and home too.
Key Definition
• “Health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not simply just the absence of disease. The actual definition of Healthy Living is the steps, actions and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health.”
- World Health Organization (WHO)1
Healthy effects on Physical Living
• Students who play video games on console, tab or smart phone they got their hand-eye coordination very precise. They even very good in their figure related skills. Students who regularly play games, watch TV or work on computer, they adapt the habit of long time sitting which is very necessary to work on task as a professional.
Healthy effects on Psychological Living
• Ready to accept challenges and target and hard work for to achieve it.
• Enable to be focused, concentrated and persistent on the issue unless it is solved.
• Temperament• Problem solving skill
Unhealthy effects on Psychological Living
• Aggressiveness• Non tolerance• Non sportsmanship• Isolation• Lack of confident• Poor in social interaction• Pre-mature
Unhealthy effects on Physical Living-
• Eye sight• Back pain• Obesity• Digestive issues• Weakness
Healthful Living Education:
• Overuse of technology by teacher should be controlled so students will learn to use technology sensibly.
• Unnecessary emphasis of use of technology on students in projects, assignments and reports should be justified.
• School should orient all staff members on judicious use of technology in education system. One step ahead, Teacher Handbook can be prepared.
Healthful Living Education:
• School should provide supervised and guided exposure to technology
• Parents should be made aware of the positive and negative side of technology, even eligible parents’ help can be taken to discuss on the issue in meeting. The platform PTA can be utilized for it. If Parents Handbook is prepared with help of research and experts, that would be very worthy.
Healthful Living Education:
• Parents should provide technology with limited and supervised access to their kids.
• Students should make aware of internet threats.
• Students should be informed not share any classified information with others.
Healthful Living Education:
• Whatsapp, Facebook, twitter etc. social networking shouldn’t be allowed parental guidance and supervision.
• Students should be guided about proper posture of computer use.
• Children should be encouraged to play indoor and outdoor games in school and home as well.
Conclusion
• The use of technology is rapidly increasing. The same is also reflecting in student’s day to day life.
• Therefore avoiding a technology or keeping away from technology is not a solution but orienting students about the proper and judicious use of technology and giving health tips while using technology will be wise solution.
