Look UP! Be a Part of the REAL World!

5/10/2018

Watch the above video (please excuse the one curse word but the video was too good not to share, and I’m sure you’re mature enough to deal with it). I found the story that the man told so powerful. I had tears in my eyes at certain parts (especially the parts where they have a new baby). With the story that is told in the video, the poet also offers a very clear message about technology and how “social media” is making us less social. I really liked the idea in this message as I’ve been noticing at home, with Vera and Stella, that even when they watch tv, they both like to pretend they have a cell phone in their hands. As cute as it is, it’s also very scary to me because she’s copying MY behaviour and if this is what I’m showing to her, then I’m missing out on opportunities to be in the moment with her and my family. This video has inspired me to try and put my phone away when I get home from school and only check it 3 times during the night. I hope that this allows me to be more in the moment and not miss out on great opportunities with my family.

After going to the the ReWired conference a few weeks ago and listening to the dangers of multitasking, of not giving our full attention to one thing at a time, I want you to think of how you’re focussing on your events!

For you blog post this week, I’d just like you to post a reflection on the video. What did you think of it? How did it make you feel? What thoughts do you have now that you’ve seen it? Does it inspire you to do anything now that you’ve seen it?
For your writing you can answer, some or all of the questions or add your own ideas. I just think it’s really important that we watch this video and think about it.

25 Comments

MIKA AKA #W.U.M.P

5/10/2018 02:11:34 pm

I thought this video was inspiring because it showed the man, where he missed meeting his future wife because he was on his phone, and when he wasn't on his phone he met her and they had a big happy family. I felt that I shouldn't be going on screens so much anyore because I may miss very big things. It made me feel sad because the new generations if kids aren't learning proper things because they just want to go on phones and screen. It inspires me to tell others about what screen does to you and how it is destroying your life.

Yasssssssssssss

5/10/2018 04:41:53 pm

I very much agree with this video that we are spending too much time on devices and missing out on the real world experiences that the world has to offer but many people do find the love of there life on social media and can talk with friends and family far away even with video and chat that they normally wouldn't be able to do without social media. So maybe using to much is a bad thing but a little bit is OK.

I think this very much made me spend more time out side and playing with friends in stead of on a device.

Juliet Pamela Bacon

5/10/2018 04:54:39 pm

Wow! Just Wow!
I never thought about it that way! We are all so addicted to our electronics that we don't even notice! We don't even notice that we are all skipping dreams that we can make come true by just putting your electronics down! It makes such a difference, it's incredible!
This video may have just made me want to scream at myself! Wait no! This video may have just made me want to scream at everyone in this generation! Because we can do better, we can do way better!
So...
This video really inspired me because of his words! The music! The showing of what is going on in our world! How, how can we be so selfish! This man changed his life by not going on his phone. If he was on his phone, he would never had been married to that women and that very baby would not have been born! It's ridiculous! So please just stay off your electronics for at least 24 to 48 hours, if that is even possible for us.
All these Macbooks, iPhones, iPads, Watches, it’s all a disgrace to our world, ourselves and our brain!

Adogoithi

5/10/2018 06:07:27 pm

When he tells the story of his life where he meets the girl and walks with her, marries her, had a child, got a grandchild. When he was talking to his wife and then it faded away and went back to him standing there, staring at his phone. I was like "what's going on?"
But then he said but that never happened. He never got the chance to that, just because of his stupid phone. And then he never got that true happiness. My mom and dad always tell me "having a phone is necessary." And I do agree with them, it is true, you do need a phone. A phone can connect people, but if you use it right. But the rest of my family lives in India. The only way my parents can talk to them is with FaceTime or a landline. But I do agree. My parents also say that you should never talk to anyone over the internet unless you actually know them personally.

Alex.A

5/13/2018 04:15:57 pm

I thought the video educates anybody who watches it because almost everyone has a smart phone so I feel that if everyone never looks up than no one will ever actually meet anyone in person and soon we will be a non-speaking race and if no one communicates then our world would go to no use. After seeing the video I would try to start talking to my family about not staring down at a phone and I hope that they pass it on to other people so more people can see the chances that they missed and then they use that mistake to see the chances that they could make to have a better life.

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5/13/2018 05:40:58 pm

It was a very very important video. It talked about how we don’t communicate in person anymore. It told us what can happen if people continued using too much social media. We won’t get to actually talk to anyone anymore. The video made me feel very embarrassed for everyone who cannot go through the day without checking their electronic devices. We will miss on our dreams if we carry on to rely on social media to communicate with each other. The problem with social media is that people substitute real human interaction for sending each other texts or video calling. Skype and Google Hangouts are helpful when people are in completely different countries or even continents. For example my parents use video calling to talk to their friends that are on the other side of the world. But when people live close to each other there is no reason to do video calling or texting. All of this is not good. Eventually we will ALL be just staring at our phones all day. No one will be getting out of their houses to go to their friends to talk to and have fun with. We will just be texting to them from our house. There is this one teen who literally can’t get off her phone. All day and night she looks at her stupid Instagram and Snapchat or whatever. This is what is going to happen to all of us if we don’t stop. WE HAVE TO STOP AND TALK TO EACH OTHER IN PERSON!!!! We could just set a goal to not use social media for a week or so as a start.

Romina

5/14/2018 01:39:44 pm

I think this video was amazing it showed some of the things that happen around the world everyday. Everyone is always caught up in their cell phones not paying attention to anything around them. You could get really hurt! And it’s true “social” media is making us less social everyday. This video made me feel kinda sad because this is really happening. We miss out on huge chances like in this video Getting Married, Having Kids, Becoming a Grandparent and living a happy life. Just because of one small object, this might not apply to us right now because we are kids but as we grow older we will probably get obsessed with our phones. Now that I’ve seen this video I’m going to keep it in my head to remember to appreciate everything we have. Some people have much less than us and we have to be grateful of what we have. I’m going to put my electronics down for a long time and spend some more time with my family.

Tom

5/14/2018 01:53:59 pm

I do agree that a lot of people that spend to much time on there phones and WHY? I don't even get the point of a phones. LOOK AT THIS:https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+own+phones&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab

In North America 95% of people have phones. So I think ITS TIME TO STOP!! For those 5% of us in North America who don't have a phone it is just dissapointing.

Willan

5/14/2018 03:27:47 pm

I think this video is completely right, but I feel like technology really helps us today to communicate with people and other things. But say your at the table eating dinner with your squad fam, put away your phone right now! Or out on the streets just walking around, look up!

If your JOB is to play video games like a youtuber and thats how your getting all your cash, then keep doing it, but be social otherwise. Bye!

Cadence

5/14/2018 05:54:42 pm

Look UP!Listen up everyone! But please not through your headphones or from your bluetooth speaker because really what it does is actually make you weaker. If the weather's nice outside then you should not be on the wifi. Because it separates me and you from all the things we could do! And social media doesn't pull us together it actually only separates us further.You google search mcdonald's near me, well if it's near me then find it well enjoying the view. Iphones and Ipads are like 900 bucks, but loved ones and strangers could be like 10000000000. So please put down your devices and please give someone a hug, Because that will make a huge update.

Cadence

5/14/2018 05:57:24 pm

bad copy

Cadence

5/14/2018 05:57:03 pm

Ava in one

5/15/2018 03:25:26 pm

You, you impact everyone and everything around you. You, you need to stop look up not at the tv in front of you, look everything around you. Somebody made that. They didn’t go on minecraft and build that they actually built it, they did something with their life, unlike you. You need to get out their and enjoy our earth, we haven’t gave it attention, it deserves attention. This video makes me have to emotions : disgust and inspired.
I’m disgusted by this video because it’s so sad but so real. Now the excuse for bringing in something late to school Because mainly you were on an electronic, it’s not that you were busy helping your mom grow flowers and spend time outdoors is was because you were on an electronic. It’s always just one more video, then one more, one more please, don’t worry it’s the last on I promise, ok I’ll just watch half of this one, ok I’ll stop by 7:30, well it’s 7:31 I’ll wait till 8:00so on and so on. We just can’t stop it an addiction, as bad as drugs.
But this video was so inspiring by telling people you can make a difference. This world is going to waste yet, let’s get off our devices and start doing something with our lives.

Sabina

5/15/2018 05:29:07 pm

I agree with this video very much and I love the fact that it all rimes so for this week i'm spending less time on my devices and more time on the chances i'm missing out or inside both are great just not a device. and I also agree that many parents forget that there's other ways to entertain a kid and don't let them get used to just playing on their iPad or device .

jACK WATTERs

5/16/2018 02:56:19 pm

I think this video was amazing I think this video is completely right It is very very very important! When I get home normally I go onto my phone when I should be doing this:
https://binged.it/2k0I095! and not doing this:
https://binged.it/2L4glQW!!! Did you know that: https://binged.it/2KvxCkS go on their phone! So next week I will shorten down my time limit do go on my device! An other goal for me is to talk to other people without going on your phone! it's not that hard

SO PLEASE DON'T GO ON YOUR PHONE ALL THE TIME SHORTEN YOUR LIMIT!

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5/16/2018 03:13:38 pm

I really aged with this video I think that we should stop looking at our phones, i.pads, computers ETC. It isn't healthy for us or our surroundings and it keeping us away from the right thing to do the wrong thing. So instead of ignoring the things we truly love our family our friends and even our pets!

# DO THE RIGHT THING !

Alex Yuan

5/16/2018 06:55:55 pm

I think this video is very accurate. I believe should just look up from their phones and take a look at the real world. People should go outside and enjoy some fresh air rather than being confined to their houses playing video games. I think that you can easily do this taking 10 minutes off one day and everyday take 10 or 5 more off of your electronic device.

DatDogoCiaran

5/17/2018 01:37:31 pm

I agree with this video very much. It shows how much you can miss out in life when you're distracted by playing on your phone.

It shows that when he wasn't on his phone he fell in love and got married! He had kids and lived a long happy life with his big happy family!!

But!!! When he was on his phone, his wife just walked by and they didn't even notice each other!

This video just shows how much you can miss out by playing on your phone! This man would have basically missed out on his whole entire life and never even met his wife! I am going to try so hard to stay off of my phone and try to communicate with people and not be rude and just stay on my phone!!! 📵📵📵📵📵

David

5/17/2018 03:30:15 pm

I think this video was good because it shwes what things you can miss out on life like in the text it said that this guy would have never met that one women and they would have not goten married and not have kids.
Im goiung to try to put down my electronics and I will try too do that for the weekend

Owen

5/17/2018 03:53:11 pm

I think this video makes a lot of sense
because you never know when a great opportunity will happen because us humans waste months of our life's on electronics and that's not good so we should look up from our phones and go see the world for what it is.

the truest banana queen

5/17/2018 05:02:47 pm

I think that this video is great I think this because when you think about a lot of people are always on there phone if we did not have phones then the world would be so much different because then kids would always meet other kids and they would actually be able to see each other without using a phone. I think that I will try and stay of my computer so that I do not miss the real world or any good chances. That is why I think that this video is great.

BOBBY DA GREAT

5/17/2018 06:52:47 pm

This video made me feel sad that if you are on your phone a lot in the video the guy has his phone and he misses his chance but when he didn't they got married. I thought that this video has lots of meanings to not use your phone a lot by using a lot of examples and said if you are on your phone you could lose friends and lots of opportunity's to do stuff. Now that I saw that video it makes me want to throw my phone in the garbage and say phone you suck. I feel that phones are useful sometimes when you have to call someone you can do it once in a while but you have to look up and don't be stuck to your phone.

Lilah!

5/18/2018 05:28:11 am

Wow just Wow
I always knew that I spend too much time on my device, but I never thought of it that way! I think the video has the right message
because it is true that some people are paying to much attention on their phone and then they never get the chance to experience their life in the real world. Some people have just donated their life to a screen. Now that I have seen this video, I have tried to limit my time with a phone or any device but too many people are still attached to any device. Once in Turks and Caicos, my brother and I went to the cafe and got a hot chocolate and a lady was standing at the counter just looking at Instagram and her drink was ready and the man who made the drink was saying "hello, your drink is ready, hello" and she was still on her phone. People can have a hard time getting off of their devices even when others are trying to connect with them.

Eve (mn)

5/18/2018 05:54:22 am

For this video it was very inspiring because of all tiny things making big things changing rapidly in a bad way because when we talk about multiple online its like your not even talking to that people or person because there in this WiFi box that is taking over our lives.this video makes me feel smad a mixture of sad and mad.I mad because no one is doing anything about it and I am sad because our world is slowly FADING away, SO STOP READING THIS AND LOOK UP AT REAL PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE

Eve good copy

5/18/2018 05:57:24 am

For this video it was very inspiring because of all tiny things making big things changing rapidly in a bad way because when we talk about multiple things online its like your not even talking to that people or person because there in this WiFi box that's taking over our lives.this video makes me feel smad a mixture of sad and mad.I'm mad because no one is doing anything about it and I'm sad because our world is slowly FADING away, SO STOP READING THIS AND LOOK UP AT REAL PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE
TALK!

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