Shut Down Your Screen Week Summary

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Did you know that technology can give you more stress and not let you focus as much.The article “Attached to Technology” and Paying a Price by Matt Richards is about how screens affect people” It also shows that screens can change the way you think. Schools should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week”.

To begin with, schools should participate in Shutting Down Your Screen Week because the text states “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls, and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats.” This shows that we should have a shut down your screen week so it doesn't change how we think; furthermore, no one wants to be undermined by bursts of information, In addition, we do not want technology to change how we behave.

Similarly, schools should participate in Shutting Down Your Screen Week because the text states” Research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress. And scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of
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When the history of our current age is written, it will say that Google has made us smarter—both individually and collectively—because we have ready and free access to information.” This makes sense because Google is making us smarter because it says it has improved our laws and science; furthermore, it also says it has improved our arts culture, and our memory. In addition, the text also states that Google is making us smarter because we have free access to