Research Topic

Do cell phones effect children s(age 5-10) grammar and literacy?

While 5 may still, in the eyes of many, be a bit young for a cellphone, the debate is one that all parents have nowadays: What is the appropriate age for a child to have a phone, especially one that can be used for video messaging and unfettered access to the Internet and social media? I'm beginning to see more and more children with cell phones, iPads and i cant help but wonder if that aids in there literacy because they are communicating with written language more frequently or does it diminish there grammar skills because of incorrect spellings and the phone automatically spelling words for them? The average age at which kids get their first phones has declined steadily during the past decade, according to a 2010 study by the Pew ­Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and ongoing research by one of the study’s authors. The purpose for this is to simply see if smart phones could make a child smarter, or could it make it a reliable tool that makes tasks too easy for them