3/29/16 Unit 2: Reflection

Unit 2 Reflection

            As I moved on from Unit 1 I decided to focus my topic on how technology is affecting the human attention span. This fit well into the enquiry of the entire course because as the attention span of humans shortens, due to the distracting affects of technology, it is altering the identity of the younger generations. As I began to research my topic I decided to evolve my topic to include some of the social effects that technology is creating in this society. So at the end, I had established the general effects of technology in relation to attention and how these effects are changing society.

            I decide to focus my topic audience on college students. I did this for two main reason: One because I am a college student so I have physical either witnessed or partaken in the effects created by technology; secondly I believe that the generation that has entered colleges and universities around this time is the first to fully display how technology is really, fully altering ones attention as well as the social aspects of college life.

            In modern research, this topic is at full swing. In particular due to the claim that has been stated dropping the average human attention span lower than a goldfish. This has interested many people just due to the ridiculousness of the statement. All the sources I pulled from directly related to my topic. Many of them were either survey or experiments done at actual college campuses. So the researches interpretations and conclusions from their data explicitly fit my topic. To make my research better I probably could have used some primary research and actually gone out and observed students in my lecture. That would have most likely made my research paper stronger. I would have gotten similar results to my secondary research so I could have compared them.

            My pitch was engaging because I was able to draw people in because of the absurdness of saying goldfish can focus better than us. I feel like that statement really grabs ones attention because people can be slightly offended by it.