Theme of investigation: How does the computer influences human communication?

Language is an important issue for everyone and the use of the

computer influences is, it changes it. We want to see in what way it is

transformed and if the speech is also affected.

THE INTERVIEW :

After the meeting with the psychologist we learned that: The children's interests in reading is diminished

because the child receives information more quickly and more easily through the internet and without using his intelligence at maximum , so thought and logic can are reduced.

Children, being affected by premature use of the technology, are no longer able to communicate, to be aware of teachers' explanations

It limits the children to a language abbreviation They will not know how to express their own ideas, and

so on. The Internet offers more opportunities to read.

Negative effects: Viewing requires a less mental effort than that required by reading Writing's preferred to talking and, in this way, children can no longer express

their ideas and feelings It limits communication to a language not fit for their age There is lack of interest for reading various books for their general culture.

Positive effects:• We read more since we are offered a more varied range of topics. • It facilitates learning.• It shortens the time that children are willing to spend to find the answer to problems. • Keyboard handling is improving eyes-hand coordination, and is accelerating the speed reaction.

Conclusion: by applying 40 questionnaires we had the following responses from the students:

32 students consider the communication through a computer more important and the rest say that they can communicate better face to face

They all use abbreviations Only 10 have ever held a speech and the rest say that they can't speak in public.

EXAMPLES OF ABREVIATIONS: From Romanian from English :D= zambeaste orbitor (big smile) hw= homework :)= fata zambitoare (smiley face) sk=school bn= bine (fine\ok) 4= for afr= afara(outside) 2= to App= apropo(by the way) sry=sorry Aka= cunoscut ca(also known as) np=no problem Aqm= acum(now) thx=thanks fb = facebook Omg =oh my God ! cf-= ce faci ?( what are you doing?) fb =facebook Cmf=ce mai faci? how are you?) K= ok Dc= de ce?(why?) Gn=Good night! Crz= crezi (do you believe?) 4u= for you u= tu (you) bff= best friends forever

cp= cu placere (with pleasure) U= you Pwp= te pup (kiss) BRB=be right back DND= do not disturb Luv U= love you

Group 2: Does the use of the computer at an early age affects us from an emotional and relational point of view?

Studies have shown that the use computer at tender ages influences us from an emotional point of view .A long exposure to the computer affects the right hemisphere of the brain which is responsible for logic, language, rational thinking, mathematics.

The ability to rationalize is affected making more difficult learning foreign languages and for making logical connections.

Adolescents are more prone to changes in behavior because they find in the computer a means to escape, to be free without constraints of any kind from the adults. .

Our Group also decided to identify changes in behavior caused by such escape via the computer centering on sites social networking sites such as Facebook and TWITTER

After the meeting with the psychologist we learned that:

-There may be difficulties adapting to external environment;

-also, the risk of behavior disorders become greater:

-the inability to express emotions -a tendency to isolate -addiction -at a psychic level: depression, hysteria and

paranoia -children can not differentiate the reality from the

3D game and can become violent -certain areas of the brain that control the

behavior, learning and emotions, can be underdeveloped in the conditions that video games, stimulate only those regions of the brain that are related to vision and movement

Approximately 52% of the Romanians of over the age of 12 years have today an account on facebook as compared to 6% only 3 years ago. A study has shown that the young people who update the Facebook profile felt better to those who were of-line.

The negative effects have been highlighted by students being in a greater numbers than the positive ones, which shows that they are aware of the dangers to which they are liable and they understood that they do not have to display all their personal information online!!

TEAM 3: How often do we use the computer for doing our homework?

Sometimes homework give us a headache and we don't know how to solve them more quickly. We have asked our colleagues through questionnaires how much do they use the computer and if we can find a more effective way and why not, more fun to solve homework!

WE FOUND OUT:

1) More than 85% of the students have computers at home, and use them for homework

2) almost 77% use it to human sciences (history, foreign languages, religion and the Romanian) and the rest 23% for science (biology, geography, mathematics)

3) of the students 19.5 % spend about one hour on homework, 32.8 % grant them between one and two hours, and 47,7 % over two hours.

4) Over 80% of the students use websites such as Google and on Wikipedia. 5) At the rate of 92,2 % of the students don't think that all the information on

the internet are correct.6) 65% believe that it takes more time to solve their homework without

computer. 7) If parents would forbid to use the Internet, 68% of the students would

begin to be more careful with lectii,4% of the respondents would use the Internet without the knowledge of their parents, 8% they would seek answers in the books , and 20% are undecided.

8) To the question: " What would you do if you were a teacher for a day?" 35% of the students said that they would forbid homework, 40% would free children of learning, 15% would do other activities, and 8 percent gave multiple answers.

In conclusion, we found out that most students find various ways to solve homework as soon as possible, especially on the Internet, as it is a faster and easier way to solve any problem as long as we can make a good selection of on-line information.

Homework would be fun if:

We learned throughgames!

Wouldn’t be compulsory!!

Would be less!