Persuasive Essay: Shut Off Your Screen Week In School

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Shut Off Your Screen Week
According to Ritchel, “As skeptical as it sounds, video game players actually develop better visual activity.” (Ritchel). Relevant to said information, I think that our school should volunteer in the “Shut Off Your Screen Week.
It is important for us to focus on school and not the technology that surrounds us. In school, students are more focused on the technology around them than per say, a lecture given by a teacher. The students technology is too distracting, and keeps their attention away from what is going on in the classroom. Students lose social skills due to technology and soon becomes an inability for a student to successfully join a discussion. Technology keeps students from socializing person to person,

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