Shut Down Your Phone Week Analysis

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People across the nation have came up with an idea called “Shut Down Your Phone Week”. This idea proposes that students should stop using all electronic devices for a whole week. I do not think that my school should participate in “Shut Down Your pHone Week” and here is why.

Many people say that our smartphones are making us stupid. Well, it turns out that the internet actually helps us expand our knowledge. Peter Norvig, the author of, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains how this might be. “Suppose I'm interested in the guidance computers on Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s,” he writes. “My local library has no books on that specific subject, just 18 books about the Apollo missions in general. I could hunt through those or turn to