Screen-week

By: Anderson Kempf

I think we should have screen-week because of how it would greatly affect schools. First I will tell you about how screen-week will affect students learning. Second I will tell you about how screen-week benefit student’s health. And finally I will explain how screen-week will get kids away from social networks. The first piece of information you will receive is how screen-week will affect your own brain.

The internet is the longest field of plain and rich information. But here are 3 reasons the internet isn’t that good for a brain. When you have all that information at the touch of your finger you most likely will not take the time to think about the information. When you are on the web you will think much less deeply than reading a book are hearing information. And when you’re not thinking deeply your brain uses that information like a glow stick it glows for a little while then it goes out and never comes back on. Also it’s very common for the internet to wonder off topic for example if you search trains you might run into a train shaped like a puppy or something like that. When that is present it will break your flow of thought. Also when on the internet you are distracted. You can only really focus on 1 thing at a time which makes it very easy to let other information around glide by. The next part of this reading essay is about how screen-week will affect how healthy you are.

Screen-week wouldn’t get you super fit but it may change the way you think of going outside. For example if you put a hungry kindergartener in a room with candy and food. The kinder would probably eat the candy. But what if you take the candy away? The kinder would probably eat the soup and if we put the candy back in the kinder might choose the soup over the candy. Same with older kids, video games, and going outside. If you take away the best thing then you would probably go for the next best thing. Next you’re going to read about how screen-week affects a student’s social network.

Screen-week would get people off their social networks for a week. Lots of people take their social networks way to seriously for example people have huge reactions to cyber bullying. Also people put personal online which can be a victim locater for predators. Lots of people think they make friends online but those friends may not appear to be who they are. A friend should be someone you met face to face.

Reading the evidence above you should have come to the conclusion that screen-week should be part of a school year. Screen-week would be important to students because of their health. I believe screen-week would make the biggest difference on students learning. Screen-week will also disconnect students from the dangerous people on social networks.