{"id":40941,"date":"2025-11-26T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/?p=40941"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:02:56","slug":"technical-media-department-announced-lectures-campaign-the-misuse-of-smart-phones-and-ipads-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/technical-media-department-announced-lectures-campaign-the-misuse-of-smart-phones-and-ipads-among-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Media Department announced Lectures Campaign: The Misuse of Smart Phones and iPads Among Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the\u00a0<strong>Media <\/strong>lecture<strong> campaign<\/strong>\u00a0 on\u00a0<strong>November 2, 2025<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>2nd graders student<\/strong>\u00a0from the\u00a0<strong>Technical Media Department, technical College of Adminstration <\/strong>conducted a series of\u00a0<strong>educational seminars<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0public school<em> (<\/em><em>Blesa Primary School)<\/em><em>.<\/em> These seminars were organized under the supervision of\u00a0<strong>Sulaimani polytechnic University academic staff, Shahen Karim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The purpose of the event was to\u00a0<strong>educate young students<\/strong>\u00a0about the misuse of modern technology, particularly\u00a0<strong>smart phones and iPads<\/strong>, and to promote\u00a0<strong>healthier and more responsible media habits<\/strong>\u00a0among children. The seminars were delivered by three students, <strong>Hanar Omid<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Avesta Osman<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Helen Khalid<\/strong>\u00a0and the sessions were presented to\u00a0<strong>fifth- and sixth-grade students<\/strong>\u00a0at Blesa Primary School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout the presentations, the speakers addressed several key points:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Health Impacts:<\/strong><br \/>\nThey explained how excessive screen time can affect children\u2019s<strong>eyesight<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>posture<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>sleep quality<\/strong>, and may contribute to\u00a0<strong>reduced physical activity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Psychological and Social Effects:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe seminars highlighted the negative influence of mobile device overuse on<strong>concentration<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>academic performance<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>face to face communication skills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Responsible Usage:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe students provided practical suggestions for using technology wisely such as setting screen time limits, avoiding electronic devices before bedtime, and using media for educational purposes rather than entertainment only.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sessions encouraged open discussion, allowing the young attendees to share their own experiences with mobile devices. The seminar successfully raised awareness among the students about the\u00a0<strong>health, social, and psychological risks<\/strong>associated with the misuse of mobile phones and iPads. It also emphasized the importance of\u00a0<strong>balanced and mindful media use<\/strong>. Through this activity, the Technical Media Department students demonstrated their ability to apply classroom knowledge to real life educational outreach, showing commitment to\u00a0<strong>social responsibility<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>constructive media engagement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-768x673.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40946 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40947 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40948 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40949 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40950 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9-1536x855.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40951 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/10.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40952 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: November 2, 2025. As part of the\u00a0Media lecture campaign\u00a0 on\u00a0November 2, 2025, the\u00a02nd graders student\u00a0from the\u00a0Technical Media Department, technical College of Adminstration conducted a series of\u00a0educational seminars\u00a0at\u00a0public school (Blesa Primary School). These seminars were organized under the supervision of\u00a0Sulaimani &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":40942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[627,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news-activities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40955,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions\/40955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spu.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}