Shut Down Your Screen Week: Useful Or Helpful?

Smartphones have harmfully changed how teaangers behave in the standard academic classroom, making them unable to concentrate. The article “How Smartphones Hijack our minds” by Nicholas Carr provides several studies to show that the division of attention decrease when the phone is near to a person.

Do you really think that participating in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” is going to be beneficial for students, or do you think that a whole week without the students having their cell phones could affect them in a negative way? Some students may think this is a bad idea because they feel it will affect them negatively. While other students can see this “Shut Down Your Screen Week” as a great opportunity. Although some students may see participating in this week as a bad idea because they do not want to give up their electronic media for a week, other students see where this good be a good idea. This is a good idea because it prevents distraction, helps to promote deeper thinking, and encourages students to be more social.

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.

Technology has been part of our daily live more frequently than before. Screen time has been more popularly used on kids and adolescents. On a daily bases many kids seem to spend more time inside on their tablets, instead of having to spend time with other kids. This is a problem that is becoming more popular over the years,on whether kids need to spend that much time on technology or not. Parents either seem to have strict technology usage, or they either don’t. There has always been a huge controversy with experts, who either think that screen time is beneficial or could cause problems later on in life. There are many views towards this topic, from hurting kids brains, to helping them during school, and socially.

2. The hypothesis of the article “effects of classroom cell phone: use on expected and actual learning”, is if a person will get distracted if they are using their phone while doing an activity.

I believe that schools should not participate in the “Shut Down Your Screen Week.” Since the beginning of the twentieth century many things have been automatized. Things like cars, cell phones, computers, and even vacuum cleaners. This is a start of evolution. That is for the good, or the worse, in my opinion, in unknown.

All children should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week “because it can prevent cyberbully .the time you’re on your phone the chance for people to text you trying to provoke you. Study shows that children that don’t have a phone have a 15 % chance of not getting bullied. In other words 15% of children get bothered by bullies be better to be in “Shut

Teenagers who use their cellphones very often will have their academic progress negatively affected due to being distracted. It is not a rare occurrence for teenagers to have their phones with them while they are in class, but that is mainly because many of them do not realize the impact it is having on their grades. Researchers, Christian M. End, Shaye Worthman, Mary Bridget Matthews, and Katharina Wetterau at Xavier University did a study about the impact of

Many people believe that bringing cell phones to school may cause distractions. However, a recent study leads more and more people to believe that mobile phones could in fact be a “powerful learning tool” (Docksai), serving as a mobile computer ("Cell Phones in the Classroom” ). Elizabeth Hartnell- Young, a research fellow from the University of Nottingham tracked 331 students from 14 to 16 years old, for learning through cell phones. They used cell phones to make short videos, set homework reminders, record poems, and transfer files from home to school (Docksai). Students described their learning experience as “motivated” (Docksai). Many experts pointed out that students have a “deep comfort level” with mobile phones (Docksai). In other words, students could learn more if they enjoyed what they were doing. An increasing number of teachers have changed their point of view towards cell phones, many now believe that cell phones would exert positive effects on education. For example, some teachers have already started to collect homework online and answer questions through text- messaging. A school in Saskatchewan encouraged students to read and share thoughts about books through their cell phones (Docksai). Furthermore, according to a recent survey, the majority of students could refrain from using cell phones and not be distracted by them in class. In fact, over 71% of students didn’t

One problem with cell phones in today’s society is that they have become major distractions. Cell phones are distracting employees in the workplace and are leaving them with their jobs halfway done. Everywhere in the business industries, the employees are hard at work re-tweeting and catching up on the latest newsfeed rather than managing their time more wisely. Not only are cell phones a distraction in the workplace, they are also a distraction and disruptive in school districts, causing students’ attention to be elsewhere. Many students would rather text in the middle of class instead of pay attention to what the teacher is reviewing. In this case, students do not gain the amount of education provided for them. In addition to cell phones being distracting, people often like to multi-task by walking or driving while texting. These things cause them to be unaware of their surroundings. Texting while driving has become a major issue because texting and driving can lead to car crashes which are often fatal. On the other hand, texting and walking isn’t too bad, but can cause a little bit of embarrassment. There are stories of people walking into walls and bumping into people or tripping over a table because their nose seems to be stuck in their phone. To some, being on their cell phone is more important than grades, clients, and others around them.

The students attend class every day for one semester or eighteen weeks. There are thirty students in the class 28 of whom are Caucasian and 2 of whom are Hispanic. 16 are female and 14 are male. In the eighth grade class selected, many students own and carry a smart phone. In the past year, the students’ devices have become nuisance items in physical education since they have been allowed to carry them throughout the school day. The students’ engagement and activity time has decreased and off-task behavior deductions have increased as the devices interrupt class when they are being accessed for a variety of personal reasons. The study will hopefully improve student engagement as the students’ smart phones will take an active part in student participation. My Mod 9 eighth grade class will not participate in the study; however, data will be collected from the grade book for both classes and used in the quantitative

Smartphones have become a part of everyone’s body. Almost everything can be done through smart phones. Paying bills, doing grocery, buying food, and more time consuming tasks can all be done almost instantly by smartphones. Many jobs and institutions today do not allow the use of smartphones during a certain time, especially schools. Prohibition of cell phones in school is a good idea to prevent students from getting distracted. However, high school students should be allowed to access their cell phones at school, because high school students are mature enough to use their cell phones productively and beneficially. Having access to internet is very important to high school students. Many students could not afford to have all kinds of devices, such as laptop, tablets, and cell phones. Entirely banning the usage of cell phones can make students hate the school causing them to be more arrogant.

There has been a recent problem around the world: adolescents can’t seem to concentrate on their school work due to our modern day technology. To further explain, 21st century devices are all children’s eyes are on. Whether they’re playing Pokemon Go, listening to music or watching videos, posting on social media or filming a music video on Musical.ly, youngsters are constantly on their phones every day. This is a tremendous issue because spending too much time on your device can make you lose concentration when studying or doing homework/projects.

Unfortunately, cell phones have become one of the biggest challenges instructors face in college classrooms as these devices have become a pervasive part of young people's lives. What used to only make phone calls and send text messages, now does our emailing, sends us Facebook and Snapchat notifications, and plays music. Additionally, our cell phones are not only used for personal activities, but for school and work life. We want to be reachable in case of an emergency, but the constant stream of notifications has led our productivity to significantly tumble down. Recently, I noticed that in many of my classes, even though the professor says there is a “no phone” policy, many students are scrolling through their social media feeds or responding to a text rather than paying attention to the lecture of the day. I admit to using my phone constantly during class, which often has led my grades to suffer poorly. Rather than paying attention to the lesson, I was checking on buzzing notifications of entertainment news and random trivia. Because I was not listening to my professor earlier in the day, I had a difficult time trying to complete the homework assignment. Thus, in an attempt to be epistemic temperate, for the last two days, I tried to not use my phone during class lectures and study time to measure my productivity.

In school majority of the students use their cell phones in class and they don’t pay attention to the subject their working.Many fail classes because students are too busy texting or on facebook. It’s really sad how technology can change studying and how grades go down. Students in Middle School use cell phones very often that they don't even pay attention to their teachers lecturing. Students even make new friends by facebook that they forget their real friends. Students think texting is something important to do but really it seems just a waste of time.Students should spend more time in paying attention in school of being texting or on facebook.Parents should not be buying their kids cell phones because its bad for their studying.They should have phones till they are in high school not middle school because they don't know how to handle it and in high