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Soul Force Research

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 link: https://goo.gl/images/c8Rwhb Dear peers, parents and other members of audience,   This is my second blog post about my Soul Force Project. Our problem is to try and solve how to fix the fact that teens are on their phones a lot during school and make phones be less of a distraction. It is still important because it is an ongoing problem and I can imagine we have many teachers throughout the state of Kansas, in the United States, and all over the world who are experiencing this with their students!  After we worked on our pre-search, we had some questions we still needed answered. So in the spirit of solving this problem and doing our best to not be behind on this, we set out on our journey through the thousands to millions (and on) of articles online about our topic and related subjects.   One of my questions I had was, " Does technology inform teens on false information sometimes?" I looked at the article which can be found at,  https://theconversation.com/mi

Soul Force Intro

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Dear parents (and other readers),   In english class we have a project we are working on: this project is called "Soul Force" and it is for students (like me) to work with our (my) partner and solve a problem that we could see ourselves improving within our school.  Me and my partner chose the following problem, Teens and their phones; therefore we must research and find useful information on our topic. The image I have included to the left is me standing in a Superman cape. What does that symbolize exactly some may ask: well that is because in class we watched the movie We Are Superman  which is a story about Kansas City's 31st and Troost area.    So far in our research I have learned that this definitely is a problem nationwide. Teens everywhere are on their phones   and constantly getting distracted. I have linked to the words "on their phones" an article that the Boston Globe posted which poses a good question. I use this article because of the fact that