The purpose of my genius hour project is to get information out to young children on how technology negatively affects the body.
The beginning process of my Genius Hour project, just like everyone else's, is to research research research. I needed to look for information about how exactly technology affects the body. Almost everyone knows it is bad for the human body but I don't think anyone truly knows what exactly it does. For this exactly I wanted to get the information out to people and maybe make them decrease the time they are on their computers, cell phones, iPads, etc. My first thought was to go straight for kindergarteners because they seem to be the ones at the end of the chain. They are the ones just starting out and learning more and more about technology. I wanted to be able to teach them in a interactive way so they would possibly go home and tell their parents what they learned. As years go on more and more technology is being invented and created. The youngest of my generation are the ones that it will affect the most because a lot of the time when parents decided they want to keep their children quite they give them a phone or an iPad. I wanted to focus on kindergarteners because they will be the ones experiencing the most exposure to electronic devices as they grow up. As I was researching I wanted to figure out things that would stick the most in a persons head so I researched how technology affects your posture, how it affects your health, and how it negatively affects physical activity. After I finished researching I would put it all into a PowerPoint that I was able to show kindergarten kids.
I started out at the beginning of this genius hour project with one goal in mind. I wanted to get the knowledge that I learn out to other people who will pass it on. It took me a while to start the informational part of this project but once I started everything just exploded. I found so much information on how technology is bad for the body I wanted to be able to get it out. After I read a lot of the information it made me think twice about how much I am on my cell phone. Then I began to think, if I started thinking like this just because of the information I read maybe other people will too. Right now I am in a peer to peer class which is a kindergarten class. Over the year I have noticed that these kids absorb almost everything they hear so I decided I wanted to give a lesson to the class. Doing this hopefully will make them go home and tell their parents.
I started out with just three blog posts on my weebly page and now I have multiple posts that other people can look at. I have made a powerpoint that I will be using to help me teach the kindergarten class. The main thing I am going to ask of the students is for them to go home and tell their parents a couple things that they learned from my lesson. With the kids doing this I’m hoping that parents will stop placing their kids in front of a screen when they are being loud or obnoxious. Children will be children and I believe that with parents giving them something to call them down like a phone or an iPad will increase their technology use as they get older.
I shared my learnings with my kindergarten class. I have been in their class every day for the past year now and they have become accustomed to me. They absolutely enjoy me being there and when I come in so I have decided to use this to my advantage and give them the lesson on the negative effects of technology. I have made a powerpoint with the information that I have learned which I will be showing the class when I give the lesson. I also have pictures on the powerpoint that I am hoping will show them what I am trying to explain. I know young children are not very good with just words so I put pictures on the powerpoint to help me show them. I want to have one or two of the kids hold an iPad and demonstrate the different positions while I explain how bad they are for the body.
In doing this I hope the result will be that the kids will go home and tell their parents. I know they won't remember everything from my lesson but even if they tell them one or two things from it hopefully the parents will look into it. I’m hoping the parents will listen to their kids and do some research of their own. I know parents have a tendency to give their children their phones or have them carry iPads along with them everywhere they go. In this process parents are hoping that it will eliminate their children from having tantrums and screaming in stores. What parents don't get is that in doing this it may keep them quiet for the moment but as they grow up this can cause bad backs, bad legs, and some people can even have withdrawals from technology. I know it sounds weird but it is true. The more someone is on a device the more attached they become to it and if that device is taken away it is likely to cause a fit. That is my main goal in giving this lesson.
One of the main things I would do differently is probably getting it out to more people. Giving a presentation to more than one class so the information on the negative affects could actually have a chance of getting around. I feel that if more and more people know about this it would hopefully lower the use of electronic devices. It negatively affects the physical appearance and can cause blemishes and ruin your posture. I feel as if more teenagers knew about the blemishes it would cause them to lower the use of cell phones. I'm aiming to start with kindergarteners because if an impact was made on them then they will more than likely go home and talk to their parents about it which would inform the parents as well.
I think the second thing I would do differently is my use of time. I would try to spend more time working on it and make the best presentation. I would aim towards getting the information out to all age groups so they would hopefully change the extensively use of electronics. This is vital information that everyone needs to know because the use just keeps increasing as years go on. Adults are giving up on playing with their kids and just having them watch netflix or play games on iPads and on their cell phones. This takes away parent child time and it provides them with an early start of bad backs, sore fingers and tired, dry eyes. There are so many factors that should make parents and children stop using cell phones and electronic devices but no one knows what it is. If I could do anything differently it would be to get the information I found out to more people.
I think the biggest thing that went well this Genius Hour is the amount of time we were allowed to work on it. We ended up getting almost the last three weeks of the senior time to work on it and actually accomplish our goals. With this time that is how I was able to accomplish my goal. During the year it was harder to work on because of the other classes homework and trying to finish everything before the seniors was done made everything more difficult. The last couple weeks we got was extremely helpful. It helped me get my information on my weebly, it helped me get my powerpoint done and set up a day to give my lesson. It also helped a lot that other teachers were finishing up with other school work so it gave me more time to work on my Genius Hour.
My success and accomplishment include finishing this Genius Hour project. I was sadly not able to complete the last Genius Hour project but I am going to complete this project. Another accomplishment is that Mrs. Van and the kids absolutely loved my presentation and looking at it. They enjoyed listening to it and they enjoyed interacting with me. The kids love me so it was a good surprise to have me teach a lesson for them before I was done with school. I asked and they said that they would go home and tell their parents everything they remembered from my lesson so that was also another accomplishment. It made me extremely happy to see the smiles on their faces because Miss Jen was finally giving them a lesson instead of sitting in the class watching them.
The beginning process of my Genius Hour project, just like everyone else's, is to research research research. I needed to look for information about how exactly technology affects the body. Almost everyone knows it is bad for the human body but I don't think anyone truly knows what exactly it does. For this exactly I wanted to get the information out to people and maybe make them decrease the time they are on their computers, cell phones, iPads, etc. My first thought was to go straight for kindergarteners because they seem to be the ones at the end of the chain. They are the ones just starting out and learning more and more about technology. I wanted to be able to teach them in a interactive way so they would possibly go home and tell their parents what they learned. As years go on more and more technology is being invented and created. The youngest of my generation are the ones that it will affect the most because a lot of the time when parents decided they want to keep their children quite they give them a phone or an iPad. I wanted to focus on kindergarteners because they will be the ones experiencing the most exposure to electronic devices as they grow up. As I was researching I wanted to figure out things that would stick the most in a persons head so I researched how technology affects your posture, how it affects your health, and how it negatively affects physical activity. After I finished researching I would put it all into a PowerPoint that I was able to show kindergarten kids.
I started out at the beginning of this genius hour project with one goal in mind. I wanted to get the knowledge that I learn out to other people who will pass it on. It took me a while to start the informational part of this project but once I started everything just exploded. I found so much information on how technology is bad for the body I wanted to be able to get it out. After I read a lot of the information it made me think twice about how much I am on my cell phone. Then I began to think, if I started thinking like this just because of the information I read maybe other people will too. Right now I am in a peer to peer class which is a kindergarten class. Over the year I have noticed that these kids absorb almost everything they hear so I decided I wanted to give a lesson to the class. Doing this hopefully will make them go home and tell their parents.
I started out with just three blog posts on my weebly page and now I have multiple posts that other people can look at. I have made a powerpoint that I will be using to help me teach the kindergarten class. The main thing I am going to ask of the students is for them to go home and tell their parents a couple things that they learned from my lesson. With the kids doing this I’m hoping that parents will stop placing their kids in front of a screen when they are being loud or obnoxious. Children will be children and I believe that with parents giving them something to call them down like a phone or an iPad will increase their technology use as they get older.
I shared my learnings with my kindergarten class. I have been in their class every day for the past year now and they have become accustomed to me. They absolutely enjoy me being there and when I come in so I have decided to use this to my advantage and give them the lesson on the negative effects of technology. I have made a powerpoint with the information that I have learned which I will be showing the class when I give the lesson. I also have pictures on the powerpoint that I am hoping will show them what I am trying to explain. I know young children are not very good with just words so I put pictures on the powerpoint to help me show them. I want to have one or two of the kids hold an iPad and demonstrate the different positions while I explain how bad they are for the body.
In doing this I hope the result will be that the kids will go home and tell their parents. I know they won't remember everything from my lesson but even if they tell them one or two things from it hopefully the parents will look into it. I’m hoping the parents will listen to their kids and do some research of their own. I know parents have a tendency to give their children their phones or have them carry iPads along with them everywhere they go. In this process parents are hoping that it will eliminate their children from having tantrums and screaming in stores. What parents don't get is that in doing this it may keep them quiet for the moment but as they grow up this can cause bad backs, bad legs, and some people can even have withdrawals from technology. I know it sounds weird but it is true. The more someone is on a device the more attached they become to it and if that device is taken away it is likely to cause a fit. That is my main goal in giving this lesson.
One of the main things I would do differently is probably getting it out to more people. Giving a presentation to more than one class so the information on the negative affects could actually have a chance of getting around. I feel that if more and more people know about this it would hopefully lower the use of electronic devices. It negatively affects the physical appearance and can cause blemishes and ruin your posture. I feel as if more teenagers knew about the blemishes it would cause them to lower the use of cell phones. I'm aiming to start with kindergarteners because if an impact was made on them then they will more than likely go home and talk to their parents about it which would inform the parents as well.
I think the second thing I would do differently is my use of time. I would try to spend more time working on it and make the best presentation. I would aim towards getting the information out to all age groups so they would hopefully change the extensively use of electronics. This is vital information that everyone needs to know because the use just keeps increasing as years go on. Adults are giving up on playing with their kids and just having them watch netflix or play games on iPads and on their cell phones. This takes away parent child time and it provides them with an early start of bad backs, sore fingers and tired, dry eyes. There are so many factors that should make parents and children stop using cell phones and electronic devices but no one knows what it is. If I could do anything differently it would be to get the information I found out to more people.
I think the biggest thing that went well this Genius Hour is the amount of time we were allowed to work on it. We ended up getting almost the last three weeks of the senior time to work on it and actually accomplish our goals. With this time that is how I was able to accomplish my goal. During the year it was harder to work on because of the other classes homework and trying to finish everything before the seniors was done made everything more difficult. The last couple weeks we got was extremely helpful. It helped me get my information on my weebly, it helped me get my powerpoint done and set up a day to give my lesson. It also helped a lot that other teachers were finishing up with other school work so it gave me more time to work on my Genius Hour.
My success and accomplishment include finishing this Genius Hour project. I was sadly not able to complete the last Genius Hour project but I am going to complete this project. Another accomplishment is that Mrs. Van and the kids absolutely loved my presentation and looking at it. They enjoyed listening to it and they enjoyed interacting with me. The kids love me so it was a good surprise to have me teach a lesson for them before I was done with school. I asked and they said that they would go home and tell their parents everything they remembered from my lesson so that was also another accomplishment. It made me extremely happy to see the smiles on their faces because Miss Jen was finally giving them a lesson instead of sitting in the class watching them.