Shut Down Your Screen Week
Electronics and social media are like drugs of our generation with no age restriction. Just like drugs they can be really addictive. Other than being addictive, electronics can also be very distracting and cause a lot of problems. Because of this we should join “Shut down Your screen week” to prevent any more trouble to not just the user, but the whole community. Joining this national movement will improve students concentration and thinking abilities.
We should join “Shut down Your screen week” because It provides many solutions to the many problems electronics and social media brings. While electronics do give people vast amounts of information, it also provides a number of problems to the user and the community. In the article “Scholastic …show more content…
Most people would say multitasking makes them more productive, but research shows otherwise. In article 2 “Attached to technology and paying a price” the author wrote “Multitaskers were shown to be less efficient at juggling problems.” This shows that not only does multitasking make you less efficient at switching between problems; it also gets you distracted easily. An example of this situation is stated in article 2 “Attached to technology and paying a price” the text states “Subjects at a computer were briefly shown an image of red rectangles, then they saw a similar image and were asked whether or not the red rectangles moved. Then blue rectangles were added, and the subjects were told to ignore them. The multitaskers then did a significantly worse job then the non-multitaskers at recognizing whether the red rectangles had changed their position.” In other words multitaskers get distracted easily and are non-efficient at juggling between problems. For example, you have to write an essay for Language arts class, and the teacher allows you to listen to music while you work. You will most likely get distracted by the music instead of focusing on your work. In conclusion we should join “Shut down Your Screen Week” because electronics provide too many distractions and breaks our concentration when we are at
We should join “Shut down Your screen week” because It provides many solutions to the many problems electronics and social media brings. While electronics do give people vast amounts of information, it also provides a number of problems to the user and the community. In the article “Scholastic …show more content…
Most people would say multitasking makes them more productive, but research shows otherwise. In article 2 “Attached to technology and paying a price” the author wrote “Multitaskers were shown to be less efficient at juggling problems.” This shows that not only does multitasking make you less efficient at switching between problems; it also gets you distracted easily. An example of this situation is stated in article 2 “Attached to technology and paying a price” the text states “Subjects at a computer were briefly shown an image of red rectangles, then they saw a similar image and were asked whether or not the red rectangles moved. Then blue rectangles were added, and the subjects were told to ignore them. The multitaskers then did a significantly worse job then the non-multitaskers at recognizing whether the red rectangles had changed their position.” In other words multitaskers get distracted easily and are non-efficient at juggling between problems. For example, you have to write an essay for Language arts class, and the teacher allows you to listen to music while you work. You will most likely get distracted by the music instead of focusing on your work. In conclusion we should join “Shut down Your Screen Week” because electronics provide too many distractions and breaks our concentration when we are at