Daily time spent with media
According to the Datareportal January 2022 global overview (see the next slide), social media growth is continually increasing:
- More than half of the world now uses social media (58.4%)
- 4.62 billion people around the world now use social media, 424 million new users have come online within the last 12 months
- The average daily time spent using social media is 2h 27m.
Many schools are now embracing the social media development. By understanding this movement, schools can make better choices on how to utilize social media in education.
Click on the infographics from Online Universities to view them and learn more about the social media in education and the advantages and disadvantages of them.
“Social media itself doesn’t cause harm, but that frequent use may disrupt activities that have a positive impact on mental health such as sleeping and exercising, while increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber-bullying,” study co-author Russell Viner of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health said in a statement.
In other words: Social media itself might not be to blame for mental health issues; rather, it takes away from girls’ sleep quality and exercise while exposing users to cyberbullying, and that’s what leads to lower well-being and problems with mental health.
Bob Patton, a lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey, said this means strategies focusing only on reducing social media use as a tool to improve well-being or mental health might not help.
“Building strategies to increase resilience to cyberbullying and that promote better sleep and exercise behaviours may well be what is needed to reduce both physical and psychological harms,” Patton, who was not involved in the research, said in a statement.
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The threats of fake news, social media misinformation, and lightning-fast information transmission have made digital tools dangerous to handle. Watch the video below to find out some of the risks associated with the content disseminated through social networks on our mental health:
Title: How to minimize Social Media risks?
Learning objectives:
Learn ways to minimize social media risks
Learn how to use Padlet and its different utilities.
Tasks:
- Login for free on Padlet.
- Make a quick research and note at least 5 ways to minimize social media risks.
- Create a new padlet, pick the Steam format and put your notes on it.
- Export your padlet as a link or image and share your creation here!
Title: How to create an interactive quiz?
Learning objectives: Use Kahoot, in order to create interactive quizzes.
Tasks:
- Go to kahoot.com and click Sign up.
- Choose Teacher as your account type.
- Open a kahoot you’d like to host for your students, click Play and choose Teach.
- Adjust game options – you’ll have to create a 6 questions quiz about “How to be protected online”. Choose whether students play individually (Classic mode) or in Team mode.
- By default, questions are displayed on a shared screen, while students tap answer tiles on their devices. If you’d like students to see questions and answer alternatives on their devices (for example, if you have a large classroom or students are joining remotely), toggle this setting on: Show question and answers on players’ devices.
- A unique Game PIN will be displayed at the top of the screen. Students enter this PIN to join the live kahoot in the Kahoot! app or at kahoot.it in their browser.
- Click Start once you can see all the players’ nicknames in the “lobby”. During playing you can use the spacebar or your mouse to go to the next question.
- After the kahoot, you can always find and assess results in the Reports section.