SLC-S29/W1-“Thinking and Ideas!| If You Were in Charge!”
Hello Teaching Team |
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Hello My Steemain Friends ,
Today I am writing about an interesting Steemit Engagement Challenge S29- W1: which is all time my favourite topic ""Thinking and Ideas!| If You Were in Charge!” """ this amazing challenge organised by @ninapenda.
If you were given full authority for one year in your community or country, what is the first issue you would address? |
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If I were given complete authority in the country for a year, the first thing I would address is the issue of children getting mobile phones at a very young age and having complete freedom to use them all day long. The excuse is that online classes are being held, and no parent can monitor what their children are watching on their phones all day. We need to consider the impact this is having on their young minds. Very few children observe and learn from positive things; they are quickly attracted to negative influences.
Therefore, in my opinion, an age limit should be set, when a child is mature enough to understand what they should watch on their phone and what is good for them. Only then should they be given a phone. In several countries, and I believe I heard that in Australia, there is a ban on young children using mobile phones.
Here in India, actor Sonu Sood has also started a campaign urging the government to pay attention to this issue and ban children from using phones. This problem has become so widespread that it is crucial to put a stop to it. What are children watching and understanding? There are cases of young children having affairs, committing suicide, and lying to their families. Every day you see a new story on social media about children committing suicide after being scolded by their parents, or children harming their parents.
This is becoming dangerous. Every parent wants to give their children a good education and takes great care of them, but it's also important to know what our children are learning from social media, in addition to what they learn from their parents and school.
Why did you choose this issue over others? |
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I chose this issue over other issues because children are the future of our country. If children don't follow the right path, what will their future and the future of this country be? It is the youth who take the country forward, who are educated, and who bring glory to their country, their family, and themselves – that's what every parent wants. Nowadays, the obsession with making reels has reached extreme levels. The children are all engrossed in this, and their studies are being neglected. The girls have crossed all limits with their vulgarity; they just want to become famous, and for that, they are even abandoning their family values and traditions. Whether it's boys or girls, they are learning who knows what through social media. They have phones in their hands under the pretext of studying. I think if you ask any parent, they will say that children shouldn't have phones. Studies used to happen without phones before, didn't they?
What is that one difficult decision you would have to make |
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Everyone has become accustomed to online classes. Do you think online classes are effective for young children? The class is only half an hour long, and 15 minutes are spent on opening the microphone and camera. 10 minutes are spent on attendance. Sometimes one child makes noise, sometimes another, so it's just a formality in the name of a class. The laziness that has crept into both teachers and children will make it difficult to take away their phones and bring them back to regular school, and it will be very challenging. Because changing habits takes time, but it's not impossible.
How would you explain this decision to people who disagree with you? |
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I think most parents will be very happy with this decision. Only the children will disagree. The phone addiction among children is so prevalent right now, and it's very important to break it. For that, we need to explain things to the children, and parents and teachers need to explain it to them every day. When you explain it to them consistently, the children will understand, and they must also be made aware of the harms caused by mobile phones. So many children's eyesight has weakened from constantly staring at mobile screens. When they are told about this, the children will understand and accept it.
I think schools should also conduct activities in front of the children that make them aware of these harms. Children's minds are very impressionable; they just need to be made aware, and this change will be a very positive one. Because children don't want to go outside anymore because of mobile phone use; they want to do all their classes from inside their beds. Laziness is creeping into them, and in today's world, there's no place for laziness in children's lives. This is the age when they should be active and energetic. But somehow, mobile phones have made them lazy. They lie around in one place all day, using their phones and weakening their eyesight.
I want to invite my friends to take part in this contest: , @paholags , @lirvic , @tasonya"
Thankyou 🙏
Hello friend @aviral123.
Regarding your brilliant participation in the contest: "Thoughts and Ideas! | If You Were in Charge!", I largely agree with your opinion that the first thing you would do is restrict cell phone use in schools for children. This has seriously affected children's mental health due to a lack of parental control, as they don't adequately monitor what their children see on social media. I applaud your answer about what you would do if you had full authority in your country.
The reason you chose the topic of restricting cell phone use in schools is very important, as they represent the future of your country, and if they are not properly guided by principles and values, the nation's future would be a complete failure. The decision to restrict cell phone use for children in schools is not easy, since changing a habit takes time, and teachers, as well as the children themselves, must face this challenge, the goal of which would benefit children if online classes are improved.
Your decision to restrict cell phone use among children in schools may generate opposing opinions, but I believe it's very effective that parents support you, even though the students, who are addicted to cell phones, don't. In that sense, I strongly support your opinions on the central theme of the contest, since I'm a teacher and I know very well how much the inappropriate use of cell phones by children in schools affects them.
I wish you success. Have a good afternoon.
Thankyou @elpastor ,
From a teacher's perspective, you have shared some excellent ideas and understood my point of view. You are in contact with children of various kinds every day, so who better than you to understand the harms caused by mobile phones?
Good point. I agree with you regarding the harmful effects of the incorrect (excessive) use of cell phones, tablets, social media, etc. However, I would find a ban ineffective (nothing is more appealing than circumventing bans—and honestly, we “old folks” probably wouldn't even notice). Learning how to use them wisely, classifying content, and evaluating it for what it is seems to me to be the golden path. As you say, children are capable of understanding if you take them seriously.
Thankyou so much dear @weisser-rabe for given your precious time and ideas.
Hi @aviral123 , welcome to thinking and ideas week 1
No one would ever think this idea could be handled, but I think your government would do great.
The gadgets is doing more harm than good and should be stoped.