The question of social interaction of school students is more often brought up by specialists in education of children, health care. The inability of recognition of emotions, desire to spend more and more time behind the screen is one of the main problems of our time.
The USA quite actively researches a children's perspective. It is no secret that modern children spend more and more time in front of screens which structurally changed, but still affect psychological state of the viewer.
Special concern was caused by results of inspection of the Californian sixth-graders on ability to distinguish emotions. The participants of an experiment who were not exposed to screen influence within working week read out human emotions, than children with regular access to phones, computers and TVs better.
Reduction of time of direct contact with people led to deterioration in skills of reading of emotional information from a face and other nonverbal signals. Meanwhile, about harm of smartphones, tablets and other screen attributes of the speech does not go, they are actively introduced in educational process as technical means of training.
Signal to tutors
Technogenic suppression of ability to distinguish emotions is, undoubtedly, the guarding call for teachers and parents. As new psychological restriction can grow in a problem of social interaction of school students which is always carried out face to face, and the factor of emotional assessment of action or the made decision plays an important role.
At the level of common sense the received result means the recommendation of reduction of screen time for the child. The view of development acts as the confirming argument: from infantile age of people interacts with parents and other people face to face, and such way of modeling of behavior should not disappear. The social value of direct human communication only increases in the world of the accruing technological innovations.
Not accidentally, at communication in a chat and in telephone correspondence the youth created the whole culture of the replacing visual signals of emotional reaction to the screen text and its contents. Points with brackets and the whole galaxy of smilies, undoubtedly, are designed to satisfy the need for emotional communication.
Restriction of time at the screen
Within many decades the science and practice accumulated experience of distribution of warnings of need reduction of screen time to children. If the age of 3-18 years, then 2 hours in day is enough. Up to 2 years – any hour in general.
Problem sixth-graders from the Californian research more than 4 hours a day watched TV and played video games. Similar experiments show that children up to 8 years spend about 2 hours a day in front of the screen. Children from 2 to 10 years less than a half of screen time work with educational material. However in less wealthy families focused on education as a factor of further vital wellbeing, find for screen training of school students more time and attention in comparison with the families which already have high income.
Purposeful and reasonable use of digital carriers is recognized as quite justified and useful, but only the part of the life which should not deprive of children of other remarkable things is connected with the screen.
Negative consequences of screen pastime are studied: children's obesity, irregularity of a dream, problem of social communication and adaptations and also intra family behavior. All of them accompany reduction of the skills of social interaction peculiar to human evolution. Resolution of conflict of interests is seen in family "by media to a diet", in common accepted by parents and children.