The students divided into 3 teams to investigate how computers influence various aspects of development and learning. Team 1 found that computers can negatively impact handwriting, speech, and logical thinking skills but provide more opportunities to read. Team 2 discovered computers may cause emotional and behavioral issues like depression, anti-social tendencies, and difficulty adapting to reality. Team 3's survey showed most students use computers for homework, finding it faster than books, but not all online information is reliable.

1. The students divided into 3 teams that tried to find answers to the following
questions:
1. How does the computer influences the development of
handwriting and speech?
2. Does the use of the computer at an early age affects us from an
emotional and relational point of view?
3. How often do we use the computer for doing our homework?

2. Team 1. How does the computer influences the
development of handwriting and speech?
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.

3. 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 are
reduced.
 Children, being affected by a 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 but less
opportunities to actually speak.

4. Negative aspects:
 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 aspects:
• We read more since we are offered a more varied range of topics.
• It cam facilitate learning if used correctly .
• It shortens the time that children are willing to spend finding answers.
• Keyboard handling is improving eyes-hand coordination, and is accelerating the
speed reaction.
Conclusion: by applying questionnaires we had the following responses :
 88% of the 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.

5. EXAMPLES OF ABREVIATIONS:
 From Romanian from English
 :D= zambeaste orbitor (big smile) hw= homework
 :)= fata zambitoare (smiley face) sk=school
 bn= bine (fineok) 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

6. Team 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 of the
computer at tender ages influences us from
an emotional point of view .A long exposure
affects the left 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. .

7. Our Group also decided to identify changes in
behavior caused by such am escape via the
computer centering on social 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 becomes
greater:
 -the inability to express emotions, feelings ,
 -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 ,

8. 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!!

9. 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!

10. 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 % use it over two hours a day.
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) 75% believe that it takes less time to solve their homework with a
computer.
7) If parents would forbid to use the Internet, 68% of the students would
begin to be more careful with their lessons,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.

11. 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 an easier way to solve any
problem as long as they can make a good selection of on-line
information.
Homework would
be fun if:
We used
the computer!
Wouldn’t be
compulsory!!
Would be less!