In Detail

In my blog I further explain how social media and procrastination are related. People get addicted to social media but then results in procrastination of what needs to get done. Smartphones can be counted as social media because they are portable and the majority of Americans have their Smartphones in arms reach around the clock. in this blog you will see how Social Media affects our working life. I will also include writers like Steven Johnson's outlook on Games how he thinks it helps children. Also Marie Winn talking about Television the plug in drug and how it shaped families today.  I hope you find my blog useful. 

Are we being rewired by tech?; How the digital world is changing our behaviour.

  Kendall was explaining that the digital world is changing our way of life.  For example there was a big difference between heavily multitaskers and light multitaskers. It showed that the heavily multitaskers easily got distracted and less able to maintain their concentration. The internet encourages procrastination. Piers Steel a professor of phycology at the University of Calgary, did a research on people admitting that they procrastinate. In 1978 the average procrastination rate was 15 percent and today studies show it is at 60 percent. The probability of showing how it raised could most likely tie into social media and the use of smartphones. 

Kendall, P. (2013, March 16). Are we being rewired by tech?; How the digital world is changing our behaviour. (RESEARCH IN MOTION LTD) Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic: http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/?verb=sr&csi=8349&sr=HLEAD(Are%20we%20being%20rewired%20by%20tech?)%20and%20date%20is%202013

Slaves to our Smartphones

Smartphones are taking over our lives. It’s hard to separated working life from our own private lives now. For example bosses can easily make last minute changes over text or email you on your smartphone to let you know. It’s hard to plan for the future because smartphones are causing last minute changes. Some studies showed that smartphones are a distraction to what is needed to get done. Individuals rather check their e-mails or other social media network than complete what needs to get done. If smartphones weren’t constantly a distraction individuals would go deeper into their work and perform better. It’s hard to take a break from your smartphone in this day’s age unless you live in away from civilization.A hard working organization proved that we can break of being slaves to our smartphones  because they had a certain time they had to be offline. At the beginning workers were annoyed of the rules but in the end it forced workers to work and produce more productivity and it reduced burnouts. Just imagine if we all took a break from our smartphone for a while how much more work we would get done without the distractions? 

Schumpeter. (2012, March 10). Slaves to the smartphone; Schumpeter. http://search.proquest.com/docview/927580576(The Economist Intelligence Unit) Retrieved from ProQuest.

(this is slightly posting on an addictive side. but it is a distraction that can lead to procrastination)

How Do Teens Do Homework Today?

A high school student is talking about homework. She says she listens to her Ipod while doing her homework. Then she goes on the computer to write a paper. She opens up her Facebook page. After a while she wonders all over the Internet like checking her email and YouTube, she texts her friend. Takes a break because nothing is being accomplished. After her break she really gets into her homework once she decides to actually start she goes away from her phone and gets her homework done.

(This is an example of a student working under pressure.)

Dretzin, R (director) (2009) Digital Nation. Retrieved from

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/living-faster/split-focus/how-do-teens-do-homework-today.html?play