Solutions

We believe that teenagers are bad communicators. Teenagers nowadays use technology for almost every aspect of their lives, especially communicating with others. By this, they talk to more people, more often. However, we have noticed that relationships are not as strong as they were before technology was prevalent in everyday life. Through research, we found that when people text or use the Internet to communicate, the chances of a text being misinterpreted are higher and teens have anxiety about their friends not understanding what they are trying to say. Texting also effects relationships because there isn't real emotion, so it's not the best way to build a relationship. We also found that interpersonal relationships are lost, since there is no real emotion in communicating through text and the Internet.

To make teenagers better communicators, we will attempt a "Technology Free Day" during the school day. The challenge will be to not use cell phones and computers at all during the school day to communicate with others. By doing this challenge, people will only communicate with others face-to-face. We will post fliers around the school advertising this day. Afterwards, the students in our class will write about their experiences in a discussion page on our Wiki.