attention disorder

                Leroy Scott        

                                                                Blog #4 Attention disorder or not

                Studies by Dr. Michael Anderson talks about how people with A.D.D (Attention deficient disorder) and A.D.H.D (Attention deficient hyper activity disorder) usually don’t do well in school and he gives them medicine called Adderall to help. What these pills are doing to the young students in elementary is boosting their focus and gives them impulse control.  A quote from a mother who gives her children this medicine is “she can’t thank Dr. Anderson enough for diagnosing A.D.H.D in her children.”  A side effect that is rare is  the medicine is that people hear and see things which may cause very serious problems like in the article the boy who is 10 was in school and hearing things like people talking about his mother so that cause the boy to fight. In my opinion despite the side effect in the medicine Adderall I think if it’s helping kids do better in school and do better at home such as listening to teachers or parents and doing what’s told to do by parent or teachers.

Everybody wants a goodnight sleep but people like to stay up

Everybody wants a goodnight sleep but people like to stay up

            Using Ipads before bed ‘can lead to a poor night’s sleep by Stephen Adams tells how using Ipads or tablets before you go to sleep will not help you go to sleep or get a goodnights sleep according to the text “Researchers are warning that the blueish light their screens emit can stop users getting a good night’s sleep. That is because this type of light mimics daylight, convincing the brain that it is still daytime.”  So what they are saying is no one should really use those things before you go to sleep if you have school or work the next morning because you will most likely be tired because you will not have the right amount of sleep. They are saying the ultimate solution is to just turn off the devices at night. In my opinion I think if you know you won’t get up in the morning because you are staying up too late on the Ipad don’t use it, but all the talk about the blue light makes since but then again I use my ipad before I go to sleep and I have school the next day. I never have a hard time going to sleep, and I never heard of that before this article.  

children are always going to text

Leroy Scott

                                    Children are always going to text

            In the article Texting May Be Taking A Toll written by Katie Hafner it shows how texting isn’t very good for you at all studies are showing that too much texting can cause temporary damage to the thumbs, and also that texting can cause grades to drop in school rapidly. They are also saying that if the children will never break free from the parents if they are always texting asking how to do things the children will never grow up and become independent.

            Peter W. Johnson, a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington was telling how too much computer use can be bad for you because of typing and they are saying like the same thing for texting too much of it can cause thumb problems temporary or permanent damage.

            Physicians and psychologist say texting is leading to distraction in school and falling of grades. They say it’s hard to focus on school work when you’re in to your books and you get a text message it takes away your focus on the school work or homework which will usually cause dropping grades because you don’t know anything because you’re not paying attention.

            In my opinion I think most of these things are true text messaging is a distraction and it probably will cause your thumbs to hurt if you do it too much, but the thing about the distraction is if you really want to do your school work you’re going to get it done you will put your phone away and do it.

            Most people who have cell phones in my opinion don’t do their work because they don’t want to not because they are being distracted. When I get text messages I usually am not doing my homework anyway I just do it in the morning so that’s why my opinion is probably different from some or most people.

Cheaters are Everywhere

    Cheating is becoming more and more of a problem every day and experts are saying the reason is because it is becoming easier and more tolerated.  Studies of student behavior and attitudes show that high achiever is also the ones cheating as well as the ones that do poor regularly. The article includes a quote from Donald L. McCabe he says " I don't think there's any question that students have become more competitive, under more pressure, and, as a result, tend to excuse more from themselves and other students, and that's allowed by the adults around them," I think this quote has truth to because everyone cheats and sometimes for different reasons but I don't think people should cheat because there being competitive because someone else is always going to be better than you in something. And if adults around them are letting things like cheating to get better grades they should be dealt with because that really means no one won't be learning anything if everyone is cheating. The real reason everyone cheats is because deep down inside no matter how tough you are everybody cares what kind of grade they get. Americas tops schools are cheating the worst schools are cheating it’s just everywhere unless they made a school for each person then cheating would stop.