Essay On Teenagers And Teenagers

“Back in my day we didn’t have as many nice things as you do now”. This seems to be the case of many teenagers and young adults are hearing from their parents. The world has become more of a technological place with television, cellphones, and the infamous internet which seems to be the number on distraction for young adults. Technology does a pretty good job of taking time away from students and young adults. Parents nowadays didn’t have the technology before them as kids do today. Parents back in school were able to put a lot more time in the books, like the average, every hour of class they would study up to three to four hours on the assignments. Today students are lucky to study at least one hour for every hour of class. Technology seems

Today students are lucky to get in one hour of study for every hour of class. This is much due to distractions like cell phones, television and the internet. A lot of students that go to school have all three of these distractions at their fingertips, making it extremely hard for them to stay focused and get the work done that is needed to be done. Smartphones having every distraction there are to a student in their hands. Most smart phones have internet access, they have games, and they might have access to television. Having so many distractions in the palm of your hand makes it very hard to stay focused and get work done. Students do not put forth the same amount of effort into school as your parents did. Most of our parents growing up did not have internet or cell phones that they could use easily. That is why I hear the sentence all the time “We didn’t have as many nice things as you did when I

“Students can 't resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you”. I read it thoroughly and came across a few quotes. “People who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test” (par 1 Sullivan). This is a big problem in today’s schools, many students have the technology at their disposal. Students in school tend to check their phones one every 3 minutes on average. This is extreme, how are students able to learn and analyze problems in front of them if they are being distracted this often? They are not able to, this is why the average of kids being distracted by their cell phones scores twenty points lower on a standardized test. Many students try to multitask their time on social media and other distracting things, but much of the time it still doesn’t work. To summarize a paragraph that I read; there is no such thing as multi-tasking,

one cannot do two things at the same time with the same amount of time. In this case your brain does short studies on one task, then moves to the other then back again. In the mean time you are losing the knowledge you just gained by trying to master the other task that you are trying to do. In this case with teenagers in school, there losing their on the assignments before them and concentrating too much energy of the