GH Reflection Blog Post

 

For my Genius Hour project, my topic was Smartphones. I chose to do my project about smartphones because we all know that this generation is very attached to technology. Teenagers have become addicted to being on their phones and technology is slowly taking over humanity and I wanted to bring awareness to that by doing this project.

My research question was: How has smartphones changed the world and what was the difference that occured since the first smartphone appeared? With this project, I learned a lot about technology today and about the evolution of smartphones throughout the years. I have researched and dug into the topic and found some interesting facts and information about smartphones. I learned about what technology is doing to teenager nowadays and watched reports and interviews on different point of views from teenagers, kids and adult. Various different ideas and POV’s have been brought up and it was fascinating to hear about their various perspectives. This project did not help me grow as a person or student but I did realize how technology is affecting society and how humanity is dying right below our eyes. I figured a way to try and bring back humanity and put together the broken pieces was for our community to spend time together and interact with each other  without our smartphones, iPad or computers being in the way all the time.

It is true that technology is present in our everyday surroundings now. It does eventually have a positive effect but the down- sides can not be forgotten. We have teenagers completely addicted to their phones and some go mad at the fact that they can’t use it. Apps such as snapchat, instagram, facebook and many more are taking over and are taking away the small amount of hope we have. Before the appearance of smartphones, life was way more easy because people didn’t worry about what phone they had or cared about where were their phones because it didn’t matter but now phones has become our only source of entertainment and we can’t spend more than 5 hours without looking at our phones which is going to make it hard for the kids to grow up in such an addicted society. Kids are immediately revealed and exposed to this world of technology and don’t even consider going out and interact with nature. When it comes to technology, a lot of areas are affected such as your sleep, the prices rising as new devices are being released and many more.

For all that being, a change needs to be made and for that to happen we all need to take a stand.

 

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