The Importance Of Screen Free Week In School

Our school should implement screen free week because it will help students focus. There have been countless occasions in which students have not completed their school work because of technology. According to “scholastic scope”, experts state that when faced with digital distractions, 50% take longer to complete a task and tend to make more mistakes. If this event takes place, students’ schoolwork will be negatively affected, limiting their successfulness’ in school. If they are always on their phone they lose concentration. What would happen with if no one concentrated? For this reason, our school have screen free week.

Screen free week should take place at my school because it will give us a week to come up with new ideas. If we are constantly on our phones then how will we ever be able to come up with

interpretations or conclusions of things on our own? In the article “Is google making us stupid” it states, “you’ll never think deeply if you’re always googling, texting, and surfing, google is encouraging us to think superficially .Its making us shallow.” At least for one week let’s put down our screens. I mean with the internet everything if given to us on our faces. For example let’s say you have science homework and you don't want to do it, so you search up the answers. In a few second, BAM! All the answers appear on your screen. Then you don't have to do the work anymore and you can back to snap chat or Instagram. If this continues to happen you never learn anything, you never get ideas of your own, you never find solutions. I mean how can you think of the next big thing if all you do is look at what other people think or at what they are doing?
Some people may try to argue that screen week may not help at all or that it will have a negative effect on us, but I disagree.

Those folks are incorrect. Students may try to convince you and they will tell you that we shouldn’t have screen free week because our phones are teaching us how to multitask and that’s a good skill to have. I completely agree with them multitasking is important. The question you have to ask is does it really help us multitask? If phones are really helping us perform task simultaneously then, why is it that studies show less than 3% of the population are multitaskers. Although the internet can contain some of the world’s best writing images, and ideas; from my experience, the information can be false and even irrelevant at times. Also this ideas leads into the reason that the internet shows in formation at a very fast rate, and I won’t deny that it’s not great to have this at one click. The problem is that in blink of an eye you can see yourself plagiarizing the information. With screen free week it will help us get rid of this false information. Plus its only one week and I can assure you that one week will make a big

difference.