Happy New Year everyone! I know it's been a while since I have posted (ok - almost 4 months!), but I am going to try and make more of an effort this year to post lessons, ideas, videos, etc. of what we are doing in our Tech Lit class.
Today, I posed the question to my middle school students - could you go through a digital detox? First of all, we had to come up with the meaning of "detox" which many students associated with drugs and alcohol. I had one student define detox as "getting the poisons out of your body;" another student defined it as "giving up something."
I came across an episode of Dateline on Sunday night where they followed a group of twenty-something girls who went through digital detox for two weeks. No cell phone, no Facebook, no Twitter, etc. Check out the clips below:
Digital Detox Part 1:
Digital Detox Part 2:
After I showed these clips to my students, we discussed if they could go through a digital detox. I'm not even sure I could go without my phone or social media for two weeks! Then I had my students take the following survey http://bit.ly/WSQMAV about their cell phone usage. Feel free to take this survey yourself or share with your students!
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