Julie Holland Griggs -In preparation for reading Fahrenheit 451, my class did a little social experiment today. While they were working at their desks, I had them quietly move to the board and make a tally mark each time they got a notification on their phone. Grand total for today: 1,678 notifications. That’s 1,678 interruptions to learning caused by cell phones.
One of the central ideas of F451 is that constant, mindless distractions prevent people from developing authentic relationships and suppress deep thought. Hmmm...
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The mind boggles. How many in the class? 30 perchance? that is 56 per student or one per minute each. You could throw send a person to Mars money at just one school district and still not have learning occur with that much distraction. The cousin to 451 is 1984.
DISTRACTION IS EDUCATING
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