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Student input would have been very valuable!

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Seconding Keionna about the reflection. I do think we need more time and a larger group to complete this project.

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I think our group was at the same point. I like that you included a variety of different sources

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I like the connection to blue light and how going forward you see this as a collaborative experience!

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I agree with your reflections. I to wish I could have found time to approach this with my students. My approach was collecting data on how many times zoom kicked students out, we lost connection etc and how this was disrupting learning time. Thus making it difficult for students to learn.

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We use our devices to stay in touch with friends and family, to educate and entertain our children and, for many, to work from home.

To prevent digital burnout, tech firms are now trying to design technological solutions to encourage productivity and creativity and to allow you to spend less time staring at a screen.

Take breaks

Microsoft has introduced a new tool on Outlook that encourages people to take shorter meetings with plenty of breaks.

The settings schedule meetings five minutes after the hour - to provide a natural break between calls.

The tool was created in response to Microsoft's own research, which found that back-to-back virtual meetings can make people stressed and distracted.

The analysis said no breaks led to a spike in stress levels, especially when switching between calls.

"Taking a physical break from screens is also essential, as this can improve our ability to focus," Nick Hedderman, modern work lead at Microsoft UK, told the BBC.

He suggests that leaders could create a "positive remote culture" by:

shortening meetings to between 20 and 40 minutes

conducting "team check-ins" that aren't related to work

scheduling voice-only walking meetings "to change the scenery and improve physical wellbeing"

Clear boundaries

"If we are mindful of our behaviour and establish clear boundaries and schedules, we can choose to have technology work for us instead of against us," says Naz Beheshti, former executive assistant to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

In her new book, Pause. Breathe. Choose: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being, she stresses the importance of being bored, a lesson she learned from Mr Jobs to encourage creativity.

"The next time you have a gap of time in your day, refrain from filling it," her book says. "Resist picking up your phone or other electronic devices, which could temporarily entertain you with something diverting like your never-ending social media feed."

There are a mounting number of scientific studies which have shown that phones and notifications have a detrimental effect on productivity and attention.

Notifications can take time to recover from, lead to errors and can cause stress, the research suggests.

Daily limits

Apple and Google have both tried to empower smartphone users, with Apple's Screen Time feature and Android's Digital Wellbeing tool.

A user's device will brief them on how much time is spent on each app, and how many notifications they have received.

You can set daily limits and timeframes and customise notifications.

Digital detox

For those without the willpower to disable notifications, there are tech hardware solutions.

It has very basic capabilities: calls, texts (and group messaging), alarm and mobile hotspot.

You can also add a calculator, simple music player and podcasting tool.

But the phone "will never have social media, internet browsing, email, news, or ads", the company promises.

There has been a steep increase in orders of the Light Phone over the pandemic, as people struggle to switch off at home.

"The problem is still there, if anything it's worse because we are locked down," co-founder Kaiwei Tang explains.

Only 50% of Light Phone owners use it as their primary phone, many switch to it at the weekend, on holiday or in the evenings, when they want a break, Mr Tang adds.

And for drafting documents, or editing them, reMarkable offers a technology solution... to the notebook.

It looks like a tablet, but feels like writing on paper. The technology can also convert your handwriting into a text file to send over email.

But as it is designed to "take you into production mode", you can't browse the internet, receive emails or even check the time on the tablet.

"It isn't just a device, it is a counter-movement against all of that," says chief executive Magnus Wanberg.

He says it is "hypocritical" of big tech companies to put the responsibility of limiting screen time on the users, when devices and algorithms are designed to be addictive.

"Focus is the scarcest commodity now that we have," he adds.

There is a growing understanding of the importance of being left uninterrupted while doing focused "deep work", says Prof Duncan Brumby, of University College London.

"We know that periods of focused deep work are short-lived and hard to carve out.

"These periods should therefore be used wisely, and notifications disabled during these times."

But although this may be more productive, such working patterns may not be suitable for everyone.

"You are at the mercy of your boss" if you don't respond to calls or emails for long periods of time, says Bruce Daisley, former Twitter vice-president, now author writing about workplace culture.

"Pretty much the whole of modern working is suboptimal for concentration," he adds.

"We're at breaking point with screen time."

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Screen time at 'breaking point' but can tech help?

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We use our devices to stay in touch with friends and family, to educate and entertain our children and, for many, to work from home. To prevent digital burnout, tech firms are now trying to design technological solutions to encourage productivity and creativity and to allow you to spend less time staring at a screen.

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We are going to focus on Blue light and the affect it has on the amount of work students submit and complete versus a "normal" year. We will be using comparisons through ratios & proportions and likely make some tables. If we can look at Blue light and productivity to compare to another year, it might give us justification on how long we can hold students on a zoom call, and how much virtual work we can give. Depending on time, we might compare with our own students to identify other factors that could be affecting their productivity and sleep this year, which will again help us justify our final finding.
We would like feedback in the form of
- direction we're going in
-does this solve/address the main question(s)
-any ideas that you have

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989256/

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Final class question: How can we utilize zoom and asynchronous learning in a way that is effective and productive?  Why does this matter?  How is it connected to justice?

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Final class question: How can we utilize zoom and asynchronous learning in a way that is effective and productive?  Why does this matter?  How is it connected to justice?

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Choose 1 or more math concepts that you will use to create a math model to answer the class question. Create the model.

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Set parameters to your answer to the class question (e.g., what data you will use - you can't use everything). Make assumptions such as what "productivity" means in relation to the question. Make choices - choose how you will address the class question. Remember that you won't be able to address everything. Choose at least one direction to go in.

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Research at least 5 different sources of information that will help your group answer the class question. Post your resources in your padlet

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1) Identify a topic (done)
2) Share why this is important (done)
3) Make connections (done)
4) Identify a class question (done)

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Level of Participation with Async vs Sync. 

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Level of Participation with Async vs Sync. 

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Efficiently maximized output based on screentime