Have you ever considered how much time you spend surfing the web or staring at a screen? Although it might not have crossed your mind when you're sitting down watching TV, the effects certainly take a toll, even if you don't notice it. Shut Down Your Screen Week is a current movement that is sweeping the nation by challenging students to stay away from technology for a week. This movement is helping students notice how much their weekly screen time is holding them back. If our school participates in this national movement, we could start to see improvement in student grades, behavioral development, and even see students have less stress and more time to be free and enjoy other hobbies at home. Multitasking undoubtedly requires a lot of brain …show more content…
What some don’t know is that social media also serves as a very good distraction. This is not always a bad thing. Sometimes you might come home after a long day and will need a distraction and destress. This is one of the benefits of social media. It eases the weight of having to think and allows you to be entertained without having to use so much brain power. An instance where social media and technology might cause more problems than offer benefits is the school environment. Technology then becomes a very big issue if used incorrectly in the classroom. Ritchel states,”Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats.” This kind of distraction presents a great threat to the focus and performance of students in the classroom. If we can eliminate this threat from the classroom for a week, we could see students be more focused and attentive. The benefits of this behavior can have a lasting impact on how a student will perform in the classroom in the
In the article,“Multitasking is actually kind of a problem for kids and adults” by Hayley Tsukayama the author went into detail about how parents and their children view their personal media habits. One of the ways that the parents and children viewed their media habits as was feeling the need to respond to texts and notifications immediately. “More than 1,200 parents and teens surveyed, 48 percent of parents and 72 percent of teens said they felt the need to respond to texts and notifications immediately, almost guaranteeing distractions throughout the day” (Tsukayama). This article can be connected to “The Epidemic of Media Multitasking While Learning” both of the articles discussed the different factors of media multitasking among individuals. The article from The Washington Post website gave great insight on multitasking and rather it is bad for students when it comes to learning. I believe that the issue being discussed is very relevant because if students are easily distracted by technology while in their learning environment it results in them not learning
Technology can disrupt people’s train of thought. To begin with, many people around the world use technology. Electronics can help students and also affect them in many ways, but whether or not shutting down all electronics can help. Schools should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because of many reasons.
In the current society, there are new technologies every day. As these different technologies increase, the number of users are also increasing. These users are dedicating their time to the Internet. It could be for work, school, or social interactions. School districts are now afraid that students will spend more time on the Internet. Instead, they should be spending their time studying. As a result of this epidemic, schools made an approach to the idea of “Shut Down Your Screen” week. This idea requires the staff and students to have no contact with any type of technology for a whole week. Teachers are not allowed to teach with any SmartBoards, projectors, laptops, or computers. Students are only allowed to learn with textbooks and write on paper. Bayless High School should take part in “Shut Down Your Screen” week because the idea will help students learn better. Also, the usage of social interactions will decrease.
Schools should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because technology is distracting, people spend too much time on screens which can become unhealthy, and it affects school performance. Between the four articles, studies were conducted to prove that technology is distracting. Nicholas Carr says “If we’re distracted, we understand less, remember less, and learn less.” If people are always distracted by their phones, computers, and other devices, they will never be able to learn or think deeply.
“What really makes us intelligent isn't our ability to find lots of information quickly,” according to the article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?” When students use the internet for most of your answer you don’t learn because it doesn't sync into your brain. Some youth are connected to Google or any type of electronics. They use it to look up answers for their homework. Should your school participate in a no screen screen week? Montesano School District would benefit from the no screen week in many different ways, some ways are our learning, social relationships, and the amount of sleep we get.
Over the past thirty years, technology has integrated into our society in a way that has made it almost impossible to avoid it (Chayko, 2). Whether it be through phone calls, webcam conversations, or even social media, people have become more connected through the means of it. However, this is a dangerous thing for we are now more susceptible to distraction (Shirky). Throughout the assigned articles, three main topics were discussed that enforce the aforementioned statements: how technology is integral to our society, social media, and the distraction of modern technologies.
Quite obviously, technology is essential for many of us and our future. For instance, students interested in improving their ethics or academics, technology can potentially be a great option to educate themselves effectively and cognitively, moreover, students including myself utilize smartphones and chromebooks almost every day in order to finish up and turn in their assignments. Electronic media, which is defined as various ways of communicating that are electronic (i.e. TV and Internet), has made communications quicker and more convenient than ever. Even with many negatives, I personally think the positives of technology easily outweigh the negatives, however, if RRHS participate in a national “Shut Down Your Screen Week”, teachers will
Purpose of Study Individuals should understand that the use or nonuse of social media has negative and positive effects on their lives, whether they recognize them or not. Students who excessively use social networking applications can be negatively affected because they are spending too much time on these applications rather than paying attention in class, completing homework, studying, sleeping, or focusing on their own health and condition. However, these same students who are excessive users are often times the students who are more aware of global issues and updates in pop culture through the use of social media. Students who moderately use social networking applications spend a good amount of time on these applications and are still able to manage time for sleeping, practicing good eating habits, homework, and studying. These students are usually just as aware, or slightly less aware, than students who excessively use social networking.
Social Media has evolved magnificently since the first email sent in 1971. Social media is any form of website or application which enables us to share content with one another with a simple sharing tool. Social media has became an addiction for most, if you were to ask the average student if they were connected to a social networking site about 73 percent would reply with a yes. In addition about 63 percent of people log on to a social media site daily and on average 40 percent log on multiple times a day. Everyone has their own reasons for the use of social media which could include shopping, research, or other personal reason like venting and status updates. Students often connect to social media because majority of students have one so they feel included. Social Media has became an addiction to many of the students who happen to have a profile to a site. They feel the need to always be connected to society. Many of these students grades have either suffered or raised due to having better connections with other students. My essay will attempt to prove that social media has been affecting the children’s education and prevents them from reaching the academic growth they need.
Social media also distracts people from their jobs of school. Many schools allow the students to keep their phones. This can lead to the temptation for them to be on their phones during classes. Being on the phone can affect grades and get the kids in trouble. Social media also distracts people from their jobs.
Students involved in activities on social media sites during the study resulted in a reduction in their focus of attention. This causes a decrease in their academic performance, and concentration to learn as well.
Masuma Ahuja, journalist from the Washington Post, said “Teens today, also known as the Facebook Generation or ‘digital natives,’ are part of the first U.S. generation to be so closely identified with technology (Ahuja 3).” Many people believe that social media tends to distract students. With the increasing technological advances, students are encouraged and even required to take part in social media. Social media is a part almost many aspects of a teens life. Social media applications such as Instagram, twitter, snap chat, Facebook, vine, and many more are changing the way teens are interacting which can result in academic struggles. Social media is having a negative affect on students by distracting them from their work and prohibiting them from using their full potential in the classroom and at home.
However, this can prove to be a huge problem for many persons especially students because the use of social media could have a negative effect on students’ academic performance. Some of the ways that social media can have a negative effect on academic performance are that social media can cause procrastination meaning students will spend time on Social media instead of getting their work done in a timely fashion. Also, social media can make students depressed which will surely have a negative on their academic performance. Furthermore, social media gives a wider form of plagiarism that will definitely have a negative effect on students’ academic
Nowadays many people such as tutors or parents believe that social media is distracting young people from focusing on their work at school and as negative result in many ways is lowered grades, decrease of real human contact, time wasting and motivation loses.
The effect can been seen on the society as people now hide behind screens and tend to have limited face to face commutation. It’s also ironic that many relationships were built through online chatting and later were disappeared without people meeting one another in reality. Perhaps, one of the most downsides of Social media is the weakening of the bond between family members. In other words, the overuse of technology such as laptops and smartphones have negatively affected healthy relationships and led to isolation, depression and psychological conditions due to the lack of support between family members. Education wise, social media is believed to be one of the reasons behind the drop in educational level and standard among teenagers and children. The great amount of time they spend on social medial is likely to affect their intelligence as the brain become lazier in memory and information processing. In addition, Students are now totally reliant on “google” to find the answer for their research assignments or a question in their homework before attempting it by themselves. Unfortunately, social media has also led to decrease in spelling and grammar skills between students and children as many depend on ‘autocorrect’’ to check the spelling of their words and finish their sentences. Additionally, Moreover people became motionless because they are ignoring the real nature of speaking or writing,