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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? Are you using technology as a tool to accomplish a task or as a distraction?
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.
There are reports that say, 11-14 year olds spend about nine 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?
Invite your family members to track their own technology use with you.
What were the results?
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.
How does technology affect your sleep?
How does technology affect your sleep?
Do a little online research about how the use of a device before sleep affects your sleep.
What could you change in your night time routine to have the most restful sleep?
Implement those changes for a week and see if you can tell the difference? Are you less anxious and more rested?
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