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What is Technology Addiction

Enriching Teaching and Learning Environments With Contemporary Technologies
As a result of the inappropriate use of technology and technological tools, to live constantly dependent on these tools.
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Technology and Teachers in the Preschool Period
Neriman Aral (Ankara University, Turkey) and Gül Kadan (Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3383-3.ch013
Abstract
The teachers' use of technology, as well as their behaviors and attitudes, become important as they are second only to the parents in shaping children's futures. Although the teachers' attitudes and behaviors are important in every stage of the children, they are crucial in the preschool period. It is even more important for the teachers who have this awareness to shape and construct their behaviors and attitudes accordingly in order to invest in a better future. With this in mind, the aim is to explain the technology in the preschool period, the levels of teachers' use of technology, their views on technology, and their responsibilities in the use of technology in the preschool period.
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The Concept of Addiction and Its Causes
Excessive use of technology, insatiable desire to use technology, neglecting one's own needs due to excessive use, disruption of family and social relationships due to excessive use, using technology as a means of escape from negative emotions and stress, trying to give up and reduce use, being tense and anxious when it cannot be used, deceiving others about the duration and amount of use generally define technology addiction.
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Look Up: Life Without Technology
Obsessive behavior related to use of technology significantly affecting relationships with others, work tasks, and activities of daily living.
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Internet Addiction as a Behavioral Addiction: The Effect of Computer Games on Children and Cyber Violence
It is the emergence of physical, personal, and social problems as a result of the longer, unlimited and excessive use of technology. In brief, technology addiction is defined as the situation where technology grasps the control over people.
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