Shut Down Your Screen Week

How many hours per day do you spend on your phone, computer or even TV? After reading “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” by Matt Richtel, and “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and Peter Norvig, the reader can decide whether schools should or should not participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week”. Schools should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because screens (electronic devices) cause loss of money, attention, and loss of knowledge. Schools might choose to participate because students can use electronics to further their educational learning.

Firstly, schools should participate in “Shur Down your Screen Week” because people might struggle with the pure madness of online and personal work all on one device …show more content…
The text “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (By Nicholas Carr and Peter Norvig) gives a few reasons to not participate, like the reason given in paragraph 10, “My local library has no books on that specific subject—just 18 books about the Apollo missions in general. I could 81 hunt through those or turn to Google, which returns 45,000 pages, including a definitive encyclopedia article and instructions for building a unit.” This text is trying to state how there are more recourses online than in person, although this is true, you could receive misinformation or get sidetracked when online. The same text supports this by stating the following, “Google doesn't want us to slow down”. The faster we zip across the Web, clicking links and skimming words and pictures, the more ads Google is able to show us and the more money it makes.” This proves that search engines and screens in general want us to get sidetracked so they can make more money. This sidetracking is just a loop of looking something up, misinformation on that site, so you go to another website, but it has the same problem, just like that, you're trapped with little knowledge on how to escape, except for the obvious, “Shut Down Your Screen

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