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"Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master." - Stephen Covey
Think about the role of technology in your day-to-day life. Does technology serve you or do you serve technology?
Think about the role of technology in your day-to-day life. Does technology serve you or do you serve technology?
What kinds of technology do you use every day?
What do you use technology for?
Let's take a look at the data and let the numbers speak for themselves.
Let's take a look at the data and let the numbers speak for themselves.
Many 3rd through 5th graders spend about 4-6 hours a day on a screen. Does this surprise you? Do you think you spend more or less time looking at a screen? Track your daily screen time and find out. The data will tell you the truth.
Record how many hours you are in front of a screen in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening each day. At the end of four days, find the total number of hours you were in front of a screen for that day.
Click the template to the right and make a copy into your Google Drive to get started. The formulas for the first row total and first column average is calculated for you. Take a look at the formula and copy into the other cells to complete your table.
Do you think you spend too much time using technology?
Why do you think that?
Family Fun: Track your own technology use with your child. Help your child figure out what percentage of their time is spent using technology and see how it compares to yours.
Connect with a parent, uncle, auntie, or grandparent.
Connect with a parent, uncle, auntie, or grandparent.
How has technology changed our lives over the last two to three generations?
How has technology changed our lives over the last two to three generations?
Technology is constantly evolving.
Talk to an adult about the new technology they have seen introduced during their lifetime. How did those technologies change how they lived?
Think about the technology that you have seen introduced during your lifetime.
What technology do you predict will be the next big thing? Write about your idea.
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