Are students addicted to their cellphones?

I feel that students can be addicted to their cellphones because, on their phones, they're always on social media. Some students always spend time in their room or at school on their phones, instead of walking around or play with the fresh air and talking with friends. They're always on Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat e.t.c. They'd get addicted to posting photos/videos and check who likes it or comments on it, and when they do, they'd probably go around on other people's post and like it or comment on it and that would probably take them for ages. The one thing that worries them is cyberbullying. This can cause a huge problem because, other than worrying about their studies, they worry about social media. It can also damage a students brain or cause pain on the body and on the eyes. This is why I feel that students can be addicted to their phones because, of social media.

My research of the song 'Wairua' by Maimoa, and the song 'Take it easy' by Stan Walker.

Me and my music class had to research one of the songs my teacher had put in the slide and pick a New Zealander artist of our own choices and answer the following questions.

What style is the song?

Who is the artist?

Who performs it?

What did I like about the music?

and

What did I like about the video?

What is Matariki

In my Music Class we had to research what Matariki is, then we had to make a piktochart about it.

This Is my poster for 'what is matariki'

How has technology change the way we do things

Technology has improved many things back in the olden days because, everything now with technology is perfect and easier. In technology you can write stories easier and quicker. It can also fix your spellings automatically. If you’re doing reports you can use your laptop to write your reports, but back in the olden days, people had to use paper and ink to write their reports. It was hard because everyone had to practice handwriting everyday in school so their writing can be perfect, especially the spellings. We also have cars to travel around the place. Cars are way more faster and easier. If you’re running late to school, or work, you can ask someone is your family to drop you off using their cars, back in the olden days, people use to ride on horses which was quite hard because, some people needed to control their horses so they could ride on them. For us students, technology made life much more easier because, we can use wifi. Wifi is what we use to go on google, youtube and create sites. It made it easier for us to work because, if we’re learning about a celebrity, we can search them up on google and type down the information about them, in our own words. Technology was made to make life easier, for those who were in the olden days, I wonder how life would be without technology.

Digital Technology App Design

'Fearing the unknown' a game that you'll never wanna play at night time

Introduction

In Digital Technology, we were put into groups so we could create an app together. Me and my group chose to design a game app. We planned our game by using the site called 'Coggle'.  My teacher Mr Carter gave us some ideas by allowing us to play games on the computer to get ideas from it. The game that me and my group are designing on, is a scary, adventures, action and a survival game. 

D.L.O

"My Groups Coggle"

Reflection

The thing I like about this lesson is that, we get to work together as a group, because we got to share ideas and feedback each other. I also like working on the site called Coggle because we can easily think of ideas using the site. The site made it easier for us because of it's layout, as you can see the image above, you can see all our information and ideas about the game we're designing. We added The title of our game, the characters, the genres of the game, all of those things. The thing that kept my group going is by sharing all our ideas together. It was fun because we had a laugh about what we're gonna add into our game. We thought hard because, we wanted to create something different, something new, and most of all, something everyone would enjoy. What I learnt while planning the game, are different things we can include when planning a game design. It was interesting because when I was little I played heaps of games on the computer and wondering how they make it and how they came up with the ideas, and now I know how. The mistake I did was, kept some of my ideas to myself and added to the Coggle, I learnt heaps from it because, when I shared it with my group we came up with more ideas which we all liked. The thing that will make it more challenging for us is, to try and make it different from every other game. 

Sources

We got this information from the game called 'Until Dawn'by Nik Bowen, and most of it was from our own ideas. We started planning this game on the 28th of March.

We planned the game by using the site called:
Coggle Link
Padlet Link

Questions

Now that you've read my blog post;

What did you you find interesting?

Can you think of any ideas about our design?

Do you have any arguments towards it?

Are you willing to create/design a game of your own?

My slideshow for 'Child Soldiers'

Child Soldier Presentation

Here is the link to our presentation

10 Worst Countries Using Child Soldiers

My class 10Mn we had to do a second map and name it 10 worst countries using child soldiers, in Social Studies.Child Soldiers - Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or for sexual purposes.
The map above is the most countries where child soldiers are taking place.This is the link so you can view my map showing the countries.

Here is the link to my map I've created

Click here to see my map