Technology: What Makes UScially Distracted Or Helpful?

Also at Peoria high school since they got rid of the televisions that told the time from every class room the students often turn to their phones to tell them the time. This doesn’t seem like a problem but if they go to check the time and see they have a notification they’ll often check it and then from there you know how the internet goes just moments later they’ll be scrolling through social media. You can see how easy this can become a problem and how phone use in the class room will increase the distraction rate with the availability of music, social media, and games on every Smartphone it’s very easy

As time continues on, technology slowly grows as a bigger part of people lives every day. In the Back to the Future film series, people truly thought that by this time in the 21st century, 2015, the world would hold some of the greatest technology yet, and humans have created some immensely useful machines, but most people cannot step away from a tiny piece of tech that people call a smartphone. They might be deemed as helpful but also damaging if taken advantage of. Albert Einstein, a German theoretical physicist, once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.” People have begun to believe that this day has come upon us. Human’s involvement with smartphones has grown significantly, and this has begun a list of negative effects on the human mind. Scientists have studied some of the many effects of the internet and smart phones. Many people have noticed a growing change with cell phones and mental disorders, and this has started to become a problem. Cell phones have many components, and their link to mental disorders also holds many parts. The first part in the link between cell phones and mental disorders classifies to all of their growing components, their causes and negative effects, but people have started to find ways to put their phones down and others, and studies have begun the help prevent even further damage. Cell phone growth has become a major problem in today’s society, leading to addiction and some forms of mental disorders, and

Nicholas Carr in the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” states “I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going--- so far as I can tell--- but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” This quote shows us how people are being affected by spending too much time using new technologies such as texting. Texting really does impact the way people think. While students are in school, they tend to write some of their paper in text form. This is because they are so used to using their phones and using the short texting forms that they forget how to actually write. I had this happen to me before. For example, in one of my English classes I had to write a quick one page essay on a book we were assigned to read. I started to write and once I finished I felt like it was pretty good. So, when I went back to proof read it, I realized that half of my paper was in short text form. I could not believe that I had done that. After I corrected all of my mistakes I turned in my paper. I was so glad that I looked over my essay before turning it in. Also, students would rather be on their phones than learning in school. While I am sitting in class, I always see people looking at their phones and not paying attention. Texting in class could cause you to fail and you would have to take the class over

“shut down your screen week”. is a proposal from a group of parents and teachers, who believe that shutting down your screens for the week would be a good idea for multiple reasons. The teachers have decided to ask students about their opinion on this topic.

What is technology to you? For some people, it's a lifeline they can't go without it. If you were a gamer, how would you feel about not being able to play for a whole week? What about music junkies? Not being able to match a song to each of your feelings for a whole 168 hours. Possibilities are endless but participating in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” is not one of them. For instance, being plugged into social media allows you to look over and receive news, and look at the diversity of the world. Also, the internet contains so many astonishing materials. Although, screens provide us with many convenient things it is also addicting.

For us, the students, to be fully focused we need no distractions. And the biggest distraction we all have is our technology. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, it is explained that in order for us to give quality work we must be in a deep thinking state of mind. This only happens when our minds are calm and attentive. So what this shows is that we definitely need to take part in “Shut Down Your Screen Week”, because it will benefit us since we would be more focused on our school work and not on our

Although technology is denying us the privilege of upper cognitive analysis, our minds still know the acceptable times to use and not use formal writing. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr examines the human dependency to the Internet while in “Does Texting Affect Writing,” Michaela Cullington studies the possible effects of “textspeak” and its connection to current writing skills. “Textspeak” is the language of texting that has considerable amounts of grammatical error. The individual organic computer in the human skull known as a brain has been slowly changing its organic makeup. The brain has begun to change its primal neural pathways (thoughts), which has had a negative impact on memorization, concentration, and addiction; the only scientific correlation between this alteration and time is the human population and its advancements in technology.

Imagine kids playing video games and having fun doing what they want to do. Well with the “Shut off peopler Screen” there isn't kids having fun it's like the fun just got snatched away from them. There should not be “Shut off peopler screen week” because screens improve vision, makes people a good multitasker, it's good for entertaining the kids.

Shutting down your screen week will cause distractions leading to students not paying attention. When teachers are up talking half of the students are on their phones instead of paying attention which leads to missing information so than we have to search up on google. Therefore if we keep screens up it will help the students be more engaged in doing the work. The author says “ There’s no doubt the internet can create distractions in article (SMAC). This means students

The average teen spends 53 hours i front of a screen. Devices have caused a shorter intention span from twelve to five minutes. Screen free week is beneficial because we lean more and better without technology, and it would not cause a distraction to peoples lives. Technology is bad for our everyday

Is technology a distraction? technology can be a distraction it can be a distraction all the especially if you have a cell phone. We are all distracted by technology all the time. People get distracted from doing other things. however it really depends on who can hanndle having a piece of technology there are people who can be responsible and people who can't. there are a lot of people who can't hanndle having a piece of technology there have been so many car accidents for text driving and why does this all happen because it's the people who are distracting themselves for using a piece of technology. Technology distracts people a lot it only depends on the way you use it and time you use it. Technology can be very useful for important things

I have never believed how note-taking habit can affect our learning system. I used to consider this writing system as consuming process and importable, but I never knew how handwritten notes would retain in our brain for a longer time and enhance our learning. Early into the section, Ramirez has explained about her Catholic teacher who was extremely strict about her handwriting. She also mentioned that she used to detest her, but now she has realized how her writing habit has become for strength to brain development and learning process (Ramirez). With her early life experience, she wants to convey a fact about how research Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles have shown that longhand writing benefits the brain (Doubek). Being a technology lover, I used to think that note taking in a laptop has very few or no cons, but when Ramirez described an opportunity for distractions and multitasking which results in less focus on note-taking. I recall myself how I have decreased concentration while writing notes in class. Further research have also mentioned that students who write their notes on paper have better conceptual answering ability than those who use a laptop which explains that though the information was there on the computer but lacks

Digital distraction is the addiction that one has to the internet, their phone or any form of digital technology. This is constantly becoming a bigger problem in this day and age as technology is advancing and new electronics are constantly being released. These nonstop advancements are having a big impact on education, especially in the college classroom. Being digitally distracted can do a lot to a person, considering the fact that the phone and internet have become a huge form of pleasure for many. Being digitally distracted can make a person lazy and careless and when it is happening in the college classroom, it gets in the way of learning. Digital distraction is being seen everywhere nowadays, but one of the places that is has the biggest impact is the college class because it inhibits learning not just for the user, but for the people around them too. Due to this rise in technology, millennials “have been dubbed “digital natives” for their comfort with and addiction to devices like smartphones” (Gose). This is something that needs to be fixed because it causes things such as, the students not listening and missing their professor’s instructions, leading to bad grades and habits, distracts others, and can cause overall laziness. Although technology has become an on growing problem in the class there are some solutions to solving this issue such as taking phones away, having a place to put them at the beginning of class, a

Technology occurred before the human kind and it has improved people’s lives positively and negatively. The influence of technology is really great that it has absolutely changed our lifestyle. Computers, the Internet, Gadgets all these things have transformed our working system completely and our productivity has increased unbelievably. As everyone knows with every positive that have to be a negative, technology is really great, but it also has a huge affected every part of family life. We are spending more time indoors than we are outside. The time we spent on the computer, watching TV, and other electronics drive is about 8 hours a day. During this time, we are usually spent alone and not with the rest of the family. With all the electronics drive, we currently have, we don 't need to get out of the house anymore, you can do everything from the luxury of your home. Almost everything revolves around technology now. Don’t get me wrong, I love computer and all the technology we have now, with every new invention coming out I have them all, Apple Watch, iPhone7 Plus, iPad, new Apple TV, and new headphone, most of my product is around Apple because I love the company they produce a good product, good design, and it last for a long time. On June 29, 2007, about 9 years ago, when the first generation of the iPhone came out, people will wait outside the stores to buy it. The estimated sales of this first generation iPhone were around 250,000 and 700,000 units in the first weekend

Furthermore, as communication and writing skills diminish our school performance begins to be affected. The entertainment of mobile devices distracts nearly every student in the classroom whether it is texting, or playing games, or surfing the net. Mobile devices also play a big role in communication by making it possible for students to easily communicate with each other when they should not be. The power to communicate with virtually anyone is a major distraction. Some teens are so attached to their technological devices they sleep with phones on and wake up to answer text messages they get at night. When kids have cell phones in their classrooms they are extremely distracted from what is actually being taught. They are looking down and playing their games or going on social networking sites instead of listening to their teachers. With the constant distraction of technology and teens short attention spans reading and writing skills have suffered significantly and vocabularies are shrinking. This relates to their education and their ability to do well in school. Another problem is that technology provides students with the ability to explore numerous search engines for any problem they come across and copy them word for word. It seems that students don’t spend time thinking; they are simply repeating information instead of learning concepts and ideas. When students do this, they do not actually learn the