Going into the Day of Unplugging I was interested to see a
breakdown of exactly what my usual day looked like in regards to my
interactions with technology. How much time did I really spend looking at a
screen or waste checking different social media throughout my day? Well, I
found out by creating the table you can see here.
On
the usual school day most assignments in some way or another require technology
to complete. The rubrics, PowerPoints, books, and homework in almost every
class have some connection to technology. I’m sure I have had to use more tech
in the past on other school days than on the day I chose to record my data,
nonetheless it looks to be a good representation. A total of about 7.4 hours
were spent using some form of technology that day. A little over 2 hours of
this was done doing something I considered professional rather than personal.
Right
away I noticed I spent a lot more time using technology on the weekend. Just
over 13 hours of my weekend had some connection to tech. Almost none of it
involving something “professional”. This is where I saw the full scale of how
much tech I actually use, so I set out create my Day of Unplugging Rules for
myself.
- No Social
media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, ...)
- No Video
media (Netflix, TV, ...)
- Overall no
necessary use of tech.
+ Recall some
of the things you did that you wouldn’t have normally done having used
technology.
+ How does the
absence of technology feel when it comes to the flow of your usual day?
+ Having
experienced a day without tech, what will you try to do differently in the
future, if anything at all?
Evaluating
my data and my rationales behind my uses made me realize that tech for me
sometimes acts as a relief, or get away from my typical busy school days. I
realized some of my uses of tech overlapped as I sometimes multitask as well,
and I acknowledge that I could probably optimize my uses of technology to be
more effective.
I use social media as a form of entertainment or downtime activity. It was interesting to see you understand the different ways that you used social media and when you used it the most. Getting away from social media is a hard task to do and I believe you did a good job of it.
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