High School Should Not Enforce The National Shut Down Your Screen Week

Imagine having to turn off all electronics and not being able to use it for a week. Technologies, such as the Internet, have provoked questions about the effects it has to students overtime. Although Internet users have become dependent to the internet, schools should not participate in national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because the Internet is an exceptional source of information, the Internet is used for instant communication, and Internet users have shown increased signs of social interactions.

Technology has been around for decades and has been improving and developing ever since. Currently, the school board is debating whether or not the students and the staff should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week.” This is a national movement where nobody may use any electronic media for an entire week. In our generation now, modern technology is simplifying our lives to make it easier and better. This is the reason why it is almost everywhere. It is in homes, in our work, and in our schools. Although some individuals might argue that too much technology is bad for us, we should not participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week,” because technology is able to help children become more interested in learning, can improve student’s skills, and it can also make work for teachers easier.

If students are forced to turn off their phones for one week, then the teachers and administrators should be forced to turn off their touchscreen laptops, and their Smart Boards, and all electronics too. I do not believe that my school should participate in the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week”.

Did you know “according to Diana zelikman there are 271 million mobile subscribers within the United States alone and the numbers are quickly growing?” Shut down your screen week is when the school doesn’t use technology and student doesn’t use technology at home. We should not shut down screen week because it will affect teachers planning, it will also affect student learning, and in case of an emergency the school wouldn’t be able to contact a family member.

60% of all Gwinnett county schools use electronic devices for everything! Kids stopped asking questions, all their answers are from google or answer.com. No one uses their brain anymore and it’s very disappointing. Gwinnet County ended up being lower than homework grades because at home they feel that it’s a time to chill out. So, they’ll use their phone to look up answers making it seem that it’s their work when in reality... its not. Teachers, while you’re asking your students what’s 19x4, you’ll realize they pull out their phone, open the calculator and solve the problem. What happened to solving it on paper? That’s why we came up with a challenge called “shut down your screen week.” “Shut down your screen week” is when the whole school turns off all electronics. That includes: smart boards, computers, phones, tablets, etc. we should participate in “shut down your screen

Parents and teachers in our local school district have proposed that the school joins a movement called “Shut Down Your Screen Week.” They claim that not using technology for a week and the Internet would enhance learning because it develops your mind better. The contrast that the other side has to that is that the Internet provides fast and quick answers to questions, and has a lot more information and it is accessible much faster and easier. The “Shut Down Your Screen Week” would be good for students to do because it allows to learn more, and not get distracted.

Technology these days seems to take over everything. It’s used in homes, offices, schools, and in everyday life. People born now will be surrounded by technology for the rest of their lives. That's why Screen-Free Week is the best choice. A.I.Root Middle School should participate in screen free week.

Social media has become a huge part of our lives and the younger generation is becoming more involved with this new technology. However, the use of social media has been a great debate in classroom settings. School districts have been conflicted with the two options: to teach along and incorporate social media into the classroom or to restrict the use of social media during school hours.

“Shut Down Your Screen Week” is a national movement where teens across the United States take a break from technology for a week. Although many students and teachers would not like the idea of participating in this movement because technology can help users to be more efficient and connected, Grove should participate because gadgets cause distraction and focus issues, take up too much of students’ time, and cause students to be less empathetic.

There is no doubt that weak ties promote diversities, nevertheless, weak ties are not tight enough to motivate students to get involved in the college community. Nathan states that “Part of that diversity ideal is the hope that all student will develop friends and have important conversations with those of backgrounds and ethnicities different from their own”(324). Social media, like Facebook and twitter, provides a platform where students are able to express their opinions freely and share their daily life with friends, with classmates whom they have little or no acquaintance with, and even with people with different backgrounds and cultures. As a result, students make friends with those from different ethnic groups. They are able to share

Society has overlooked the many other options to solve this growing problem. Having students become educated to perform tasks without calculators, cell phones, or the Internet, raise the price of the most popular, yet least useful electronics, or have schools limit a student’s use of electronics or enforce better rules pertaining to electronics and social media could all be successful solutions but are not acceptable in this busy society. Because of this, abolishing electronics and social media would be the best and only solution to create a thriving

Jon Russell once said, “Social Media presents a huge opportunity for schools, universities and other educational organizations to reach out and connect with students and prospective students”. With no doubt, social media has influenced the way students are educated today. For those of you who do not know the exact definition of social media, the social media means ways of sharing information, opinions, images, videos using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Because of the Internet, people started finding ways to socialize through social websites and exchange information. Popular social network on the Internet such as YouTube became a sensation for me ever since I became a student in college. Today social media can be used for educational purposes. The ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

Many students agree that social networking is an essential tool in education today. Feedback has become a vital tool amongst students and teachers in networking whether it’s Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter (Carey, n.d.). In a recent study, it stated that 59% of students who belong to “social networking sites” admitted that when there on the Internet they explore topics to communicate about such as college preparation and occupations. Another study shows that 50% of students use social networking to improve on their studies and teachers have found that this has helped students become more successful in their reading and writing vocabulary (“Social,”

Students around America all use the new technology that the government has funded them. The government is putting more and more technology into schools hoping that it will help the students learn more. In fact, the new technology is not helping, but making things worse for the younger adolescence. It is destroying the minds of students, in which, teachers/parents do not realize. Computers and IPads are being use every day throughout the school system to “teach” children. “We live in a high-tech world-with high-tech classrooms,” states Pamela Deloatch. All schools embrace the ability to have electronics during class, but in the end, it can be astonishing how effective they can be. With online classes, it can be hard to get away from technology, so children can try to open a textbook—instead of looking up their answers. Although technology has become an important part in the school system, it will continue to destroy the minds of younger adolescence, and there are many reasons for this.

Recently the school board has been debating on whether they want to start “Shut Down Your Screen Week”, a campaign dedicated to getting students to not use any form of electronic media for an entire week. Though this campaign is only being aimed towards students, the loss of modern technology and media if directed towards parents and teachers would make their jobs much more difficult is not impossible. With that said, “Shut Down Your Screen Week” should not be implemented due to technology’s growing importance in education and society.