Imagine a week of school with no technology, no cell phones, and no promethean boards. What happens you are at school in need of the internet and cannot us it, but you have a research paper due Friday? Students and teachers should take this into consideration. Our school will be completely slowed down. It is very important that parents take a stand, because their child’s education is in jeopardy. My education along with fellow classmates is at risk of falling behind. Therefore Shannon High should not participate in National Shut Down Week. Everything will be slower if my school participate in National Shut down Week. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows stated, “The fact is, you’ll never think deeply if you’re always Googling, texting,
So, the Lake County High School student body was told today by Jimmy Snyder, that we will be having a school shooting drill sometime in the month of November. Therefore, be prepared for it at any given time of the school day. These people know about the upcoming drill: Parents, Staff, Policemen, and the
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At Florence Hallock School on Friday September 20,2017 at 10:45 Robert Manson and Deanna Behr came in room 215 when the students were in the middle of writing notes. Everyone started at the door has they walk in with a green bin and a letter in their hand. They looked really serious and everyone looked up has Robert Manson said “we will like you to put your pencils down and look up here for a sec.” Robert Manson pleaded. The students slowly put their pencils down has their hearts pounded hard and looked straight up. Deanna Behr spoke “ Edmonton public district has important new about misuse of the WIFI. “And today we will be taking your phone's” Robert Manson said “also we don’t know which school the student(s) are” Deanna Behr added. Robert
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Why would someone decide to go against school board decisions? By having symbolic protests, there would be less disruptions and less chaos. Usually what people think of when they hear protests is chaos, fire, and violence. Now if the students would’ve chose to have a protest with signs and chaos, that would’ve been a bigger problem. When the kids chose to go against the school board, they hurt themselves because when you go against adults in a school you could never win because they have the more power. If the kids wanted to be smart about the protest, they would’ve conducted it more silent and wouldn't even let the school board find out about it.
Why Schools Should Continue Starting at Eight Despite popular opinion, to be beneficial, schools should continue on their current schedules, and not start later. Starting schools later can have a variety of positive and negative consequences on students. Schools currently are at a time that gives students enough lesson time to learn subjects, but still have time to relax and take part in other activities after school. Many families depend on the time school starts to have easy transportation to school and work. Starting schools later will take away students time to do activities of their choice such as spend time with their families, socialize with others, and participate in extracurricular activities.
Imagine an entire week of class without any cell phones, computers, or any other devices that can cause as a distraction to students, or cause you to lose their attention. Wouldn’t that week just be great? Well this is now a realistic thought, now that “Shut Down Your Screen Week” has been proposed. After reading Social Media as Community, Is Google Making Us Stupid, and Attached to Technology and Paying a Price the decision is clear; we should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week”. Although devices, such cellular phones and computers, are time savers and make us more efficient at finding relevant information, a week without them is well in need. This is mainly because the internet and electronic devices can be addictive, cause attention problems, and stop students from learning. We need to come to a halt with our consistent use of digital technology in order to help our students.
Electronics can cause us to be distracted, and the results of these distractions cause many problems toward our lives. The author of “Is Google Making us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr, acknowledges the fact that we can’t do any deep thinking with the distractions that technology provides. He explains, “Deep thinking, scientists have discovered, happens only when our minds are calm and attentive.” On technology our minds aren’t calm and attentive. Therefore, we can’t do deep thinking. The author also addresses the fact that when we are distracted, we don’t understand as much, we learn less, and we remember less things. The text “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price, “ by Matt Richtel offers another reason we should shut down our screens, and
Technology can disrupt people’s train of thought. To begin with, many people around the world use technology. Electronics can help students and also affect them in many ways, but whether or not shutting down all electronics can help. Schools should participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because of many reasons.
In the current society, there are new technologies every day. As these different technologies increase, the number of users are also increasing. These users are dedicating their time to the Internet. It could be for work, school, or social interactions. School districts are now afraid that students will spend more time on the Internet. Instead, they should be spending their time studying. As a result of this epidemic, schools made an approach to the idea of “Shut Down Your Screen” week. This idea requires the staff and students to have no contact with any type of technology for a whole week. Teachers are not allowed to teach with any SmartBoards, projectors, laptops, or computers. Students are only allowed to learn with textbooks and write on paper. Bayless High School should take part in “Shut Down Your Screen” week because the idea will help students learn better. Also, the usage of social interactions will decrease.
Prof Foster said "Teenagers' body clocks can be delayed between two and four hours and they don't start to function until 10 a.m. or as late as noon”, That means you should be kissing goodbye your first two and a half periods because they are starting schools too early. Starting schools later do have lots of benefits. Did you know that about 20% of Americans say on average they get less than 6 hours of sleep every night? That's right, kids are sleep deprived, Starting schools later can also reduce the risk of car crashes on the way to school, and lastly it can decrease bad health issues and bad behavior. Schools should start later.
To understand why there would be a need for technology in the classroom you must put yourself in the student’s shoes. Let us imagine there is a student in a class full of two hundred plus people. This said student is listening to the prepared lecture for the day and the professor explains a concept. The student does not fully grasp the information so instead of adding to the numerous questions the other two hundred students are asking, she pulls out her laptop. Just a few clicks away is an explanation of the topic. She now understands and is able to continue paying attention to the lecture. If her professor had some sort of switch, similar to the one mentioned in Ellin’s essay, that stopped students from having internet access, she would have to continue the lesson confused. Instead of hindering our education, we should use our most valuable resource and progress. Technology seems to be both a blessing and a curse at times yet, college students should have the freedom to choose which one that should
Should school start at 7:00 or should it start later in the morning? In Douglas High School, start times are at 7:30 in the morning. Changing the school schedule to a later start time would result in many other changes affecting a lot of people. According to the Sleep Foundation, "The change will affect the entire community, from students and parents to businesses, libraries, police, youth sports clubs, bus drivers and many others." Altering the school schedule would influence numerous aspects of people’s lives. Highly coordinated routines would have to be changed and adapted to the new schedule. A later release time would take time off of students’ free time in the afternoon. Clubs, sports, jobs, and other after-school activities would have
When I was in the seventh grade me and My friends were skipping class. Skipping class one day My mom chose to get me from school unanimously. While skipping class in the gym, I was playing basket When I heard my name get called for early dismissal. When I made it to the office, I ashamed of my behavior and ashamed of the fact I embarrass my mom. As a result of skipping I had chores, homework, and in school suspension.
People have been constantly at war over whether high school should commence at 10:30 and end at 4:30. However adjusting school schedules would be disadvantageous and result in many unwanted struggles. Consequently. if school commenced later and ended later it would give students less time to study in the afternoon, furthermore, it would decrease the amount of extra curricular activities for students and finally it would encourage students to party at night and later at night because they have time in the morning. To sustain a safe and educational learning environment, the schedule should remain the way it currently is. Cities all over Canada start earlier and have been for many years and has proven to create strong and educated graduates.