Shut Down Your Screen Week Analysis
Should we participate in "Shut Down Your Screen Week"? Shut down your screen week is a week were schools and community's stop using technology and electronics. Our school should not participate in Shut Down Your Screen week, most people think we only use technology and electronics for social media but they actually have a much bigger purpose.We use are electronics for good things such as, help on homework , spelling check, information for projects or using the calculator for math.We use these electronics to help us with schools and homework because sometimes extra help is useful.Not every student works at the same pace and same level and using technology as an advantage shouldn't be taken away. Shut down your screen week is so that students
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Everyone carry's their phones and not just the students teachers use their phones at school just as much as a normal students.We have a source for help that were told to put away and were not allowed to have our phones and or electronics.But if we have these sources, Why not use them.In the article "Social Media As A Community" it says "In 2011, I was lead author of an article in Information, Communication & Society that found, based on a representative survey of 2,500 Americans, that regardless of whether the participants were married or single, those who used social media had more close confidants." This piece of text shows that social media is not isolating nor is it bad. Shut Down Your Screen Week has no purpose, they want an entire week without technology in which has helped us and has gave us the advantages.Technology is a great way of finding sources and information and we need it on a regular day bases in which is due to the modern world. The world has changed technology is used for almost everything these days. We need it with us everyday and participating in Shut down Your screen week could cause an …show more content…
Students have a lot of pressure when it comes to homework and how much they count toward our grades. So when it comes to needing help the internet has helped us because its hard to do it on our own.In the article "Education 2.0: Never memorizing again" the text says "It is enough that they know about the Battle of Hastings, without having to memorize that it was in 1066. They can look that up and position it in history with a click on Google,” he said." Not every student can memorize everything as if it was programmed into our mind as a teacher taught it to us. With the internet the little things we forget it gives us many sources and information that become useful to us. Some may argue that technology is dangerous and causes issues.In which in the article" Attached to technology and paying a price" it says" The resulting distractions can have deadly consequences, as when cellphone-wielding drivers and train engineers cause wrecks. " In which has been and is still a huge problem ,But instead of taking away technology in which can help us but instead just teach teenagers the benefits of technology and to not use it unwisely. Taking away technology for a week would just make people want to use it more in which means when the week is over we would constantly use it in which could cause more wrecks and more
Everyone carry's their phones and not just the students teachers use their phones at school just as much as a normal students.We have a source for help that were told to put away and were not allowed to have our phones and or electronics.But if we have these sources, Why not use them.In the article "Social Media As A Community" it says "In 2011, I was lead author of an article in Information, Communication & Society that found, based on a representative survey of 2,500 Americans, that regardless of whether the participants were married or single, those who used social media had more close confidants." This piece of text shows that social media is not isolating nor is it bad. Shut Down Your Screen Week has no purpose, they want an entire week without technology in which has helped us and has gave us the advantages.Technology is a great way of finding sources and information and we need it on a regular day bases in which is due to the modern world. The world has changed technology is used for almost everything these days. We need it with us everyday and participating in Shut down Your screen week could cause an …show more content…
Students have a lot of pressure when it comes to homework and how much they count toward our grades. So when it comes to needing help the internet has helped us because its hard to do it on our own.In the article "Education 2.0: Never memorizing again" the text says "It is enough that they know about the Battle of Hastings, without having to memorize that it was in 1066. They can look that up and position it in history with a click on Google,” he said." Not every student can memorize everything as if it was programmed into our mind as a teacher taught it to us. With the internet the little things we forget it gives us many sources and information that become useful to us. Some may argue that technology is dangerous and causes issues.In which in the article" Attached to technology and paying a price" it says" The resulting distractions can have deadly consequences, as when cellphone-wielding drivers and train engineers cause wrecks. " In which has been and is still a huge problem ,But instead of taking away technology in which can help us but instead just teach teenagers the benefits of technology and to not use it unwisely. Taking away technology for a week would just make people want to use it more in which means when the week is over we would constantly use it in which could cause more wrecks and more