Category: EdTech Inquiry

Today, my group did our EdTech presentation. I thought the presentation went well. We had a hard time preparing for our presentation since we were supposed to go last week and we had all alotted our time for other things for this past week. I believe that I did a moderate job of presenting my material and presenting it in a way that my classmates retained it. The class seemed to enjoy our presentation and they all enjoyed our Kahoot game. We got some good feedback from the class on our presentation skills and our knowledge of the topic. Overall, I have learned a lot through this process and am very satisfied with our presentation.

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Over reading break, I started doing some research into our topic. The specific statistics and facts of how social media has effected the mental health of youth. I specifically looked into Facebook and Instagram, as well as the effects of social media on children aged 9-12. Some key facts that I learned was that the more people used Facebook over two weeks, the more their life satisfaction decreased; agreeableness, conscientiousness, and self-liking are negatively associated with Instagram addiction; and, digital media use at the age of 9-12 is not strongly related to subjective well-being. After I got all of my research points together I created three slides in our presentation and added my information that I learned from my research. 

Research articles:

Bruggeman, H., Van Hiel, A., Van Hal, G., & Van Dongen, S. (2019). Does the use of digital media affect psychological well-being? an empirical test among children aged 9 to 12. Computers in Human Behavior, 101, 104-113. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.015

Griffiths, M. D., & Kircaburun, K. (2018). Instagram addiction and the big five of personality: The mediating role of self-liking. Journal of  Behavioral Addictions, 7(1), 158-170. doi:10.1556/2006.7.2018.15

Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Demiralp, E., Park, J., Lee, D. S., Lin, N., . . . Ybarra, O. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. PloS One, 8(8), e69841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069841

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For my EdTech inquiry, my group chose to research the effects of social media/technology on youth mental health. We created our Trello board so that we could monitor who does what. We gave ourselves a colour each to code who did what. After this we started talking about what we specifically wanted to talk about and we decided that we all wanted to look at both the positive and negative effects. We created a task list on Trello and got started with our independent research.

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