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    Imagine the feeling of being sucked into a dark hole like a vacuum and the frustration of not knowing how to escape. The feeling of being trapped in a dark pit with nowhere to go. Stress. Ladies and gentlemen, that is what stress is. Many students undergo an extreme amount of stress as they try to manage their time after school to complete all homework assignments and participate in extracurricular activities. Is changing to a block schedule the next step and remedy for this problem? Mr. Struhs recently

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    is not just in the United States of America, but is a problem all around the world. But, with The Shutdown App, this problem can be solved worldwide! This generation is made up of minors who are not focused on their tasks and have too short of attention spans. They cannot stay focused and get distracted very easily. This is a large issue that can impact the future of the world due to the fact these children will run our world one day. The Shutdown App is an app that assists in creating a placid

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    Technology; the rise or fall of our existing generations? Research has shown that technology impacts our thinking and mental processes. Unfortunately, the impacts do not appear to be in our favor. There are four categories that the negative impacts from technology usage, on the human mind, divide into. The categories are memory loss, alterations in our learning styles, adverse impacts on focus, and a diminishing mental importance of the physical world around you. The first of the problems is memory

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    negative impact of the internet has on his life and others around him. He talks about how the internet has given birth to many good things like social media and accessing information easily. But it is also bad for us because we start to lose our attention span due the short articles and stuff that we see on the internet. This is why the internet/technology is negative for education because it distract us/lose focus in the classrooms, and as a result makes our grades lower and production in classroom

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    The technology industry is constantly expanding and growing every day. The world today essentially revolves around the use of technology and most people use some form of it to help them get through every day. Each day more and more children are brought into this technology based world and allowing the technology industry to grow. Day by day people become increasingly reliant on the use of smart devices, and other forms of technology. This helps people wonder if its effects can be harmful to those

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    reality we are living in today. To make myself clear, we are losing key listening and communication skills because of technology. One example of the loss of communication skills due to technology is that attention spans have decreased. In fact, a study led by Microsoft found that the average attention span has gone from twelve seconds to eight seconds in just under fifteen years (Egan par 3). This decrease in attentiveness has multiple factors of cause: multitasking, and the oversaturation of information

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    Technology is Harmful To Individuals Have you ever consider how harmful technology is? Some of us believe that using technology is necessary while others think using technology is time consuming. However, studies show that 59% of boys and girls are addicted to technology. In 1951, the science fiction short story “The Pedestrian” written by Ray Bradbury, and the twenty seventeen 20/20 episode “Digital Addiction” both show how harmful technology is. Therefore, using technology is incredibly hurtful

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    Kendal Mabry Core 2 09/27/17 Music can Affect Education for the Better Many schools have cut music programs due loss of funding, and loss of interest. Some believe it is a waste of time, and music is another expense on bills, a weight in our wallets. This is widely believed by parents and educators to be a big mistake. Music, whether taught in or outside of school, helps students excel in the following ways I have stated Music is beneficial to students in schools. Although some biologists argue

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    My students were most successful with learning goal six in which they had to identify and distinguish between a habitat and niche. This was determined from the averages of the learning goals from the pre and post assessments. A possible explanation for this occurrence is that the lesson included a lot of visual cues in which the information within the lesson builds from the smallest piece into bigger pieces. It also pulled from the students’ schema of animals, habitats and niches from their own

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    Throughout the book The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, he explains the history of mankind and their evolution of communications. As time progressed, humans’ forms of communication advanced from pictures and hieroglyphics to spoken language to written language. As we created a form of written language, Johannes Gutenberg was able to invent the world’s first printing press. After this invention, written pieces of information became able to be printed onto paper and bonded together to form a book. Once

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