...sounds like it could be challenging, especially in this day and age. For the
students at Charleston, it was exactly that.
At the beginning of the
documentary, the students seemed annoyed that they couldn't use their
computers for anything, I would be too, considering we have a
hard time going day to day without having to log onto school resources. Some of the students had to choose between giving up the
challenge or waiting until it was over to complete all of their
assignments at once.
During the first few days without
computers, the students realized how bored they were and how they really didn't
have anything to do. Instead, they decided to study more and go out and do more
things. I think that this really shows how much time we dedicate ourselves to
the online world.
When the students finally checked
their emails, they had over hundreds of them. I thought it was
interesting to see how the students realized that most of the emails were boring and bored now that they had a computer again. I think it
comes to show that even though we have to use computers from day to day, we
don't necessarily need them to function.
When we did our own logging of how much
we used electronics, I was kind of surprised how many times I checked my phone
or opened and reopened apps over a day. On average, I was checking my phone
over 100 times a day and I can't remember any of those times being significant.
I think it would be hard to reenact
the experiment that the students tried in the documentary because nowadays our
phones are our computers, and most of our social networks are on our phone,
making them a lot easier to access. I give the students a lot of credit for
being able to do it.
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