Social Media Questions

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Community Connections - Your Life Online

How many POSITIVE effects of a media and tech soaked world and life can we think of?

How many NEGATIVE effects of a media and tech soaked world and life can we think of?

Is your generation being harmed? Are phones causing a mental health crisis?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

Is your brain being changed? 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/marketplace-phones-1.4384876 


Is your phone making you stupid?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/ 

Is your brain being hacked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_Uw7Q7cPE&list=PLQGorANw9Zas6mJKGbFzs2hrCNywQ_mEQ&index=2  
 #being thirteen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9LtTtkg04

• Do you know you that your future employers will google you? 
• Do you know that some of you will lose your jobs for cell phone use and some of you might even lose your jobs for social media activity?
• Do you know that you can be suspended for things you do online?
• Do you know how to maintain your privacy and a positive and anxiety-free life online?

Vaping

Sleep Well, Eat Well, Live Well! :)

Discussion Questions:

What have been the most notable (good or bad) aspects of your grade 8 year been? 

What are you seeing that is getting in the way of people's personal success?

PART ONE - SLEEP WELL

• "Go to bed - it's after midnight!" "Get up or you'll be late for school!" "Are you going to stay in bed all day?!" Why do teens hear these questions so often? 
• How important is sleep to your health?
• Have you ever had a night you couldn't fall asleep? Think of that time and name some of the reasons you couldn't sleep. 
• When do you think sleep loss is a big enough problem that you should talk to your doctor?
• How much sleep do you need?

DID YOU KNOW? http://school.sleepeducation.com/resources/sleep-recharges-you.pdf


WORKSHEET - Adolescent Sleepiness Questionnaire

-Establish a regular, relaxing routine to unwind at night, just before bedtime. This will help signal to your body that it is time to sleep. 

- Avoid all products containing caffeine (including soda, chocolate, etc.) after about 4:00 p.m. - avoid smoking (including smokeless tobacco) since, in addition to other bad health effects, nicotine is a stimulating drug.

- Avoid alcohol/drugs.

- Stay away from stimulating activities in the late evening such as heavy studying, computer games, and violent or frightening television shows, videos, social media drama or trolling.

- Promote a calm atmosphere surrounding bedtime.

- Do not fall asleep while watching television or videos.

- Establish a regular exercise routine and healthy diet.

- Avoid late afternoon and evening bright light, and open blinds first thing in the morning.

- You can go to bed later on weekends, but make sure you wake up within two hours of your usual weekday wake time. If allowed to “sleep-in” on the weekends, your body clock will be disrupted, and you will have a very hard time waking up on Monday morning. It is important to establish and maintain a consistent sleep-wake schedule.

- NO PHONES IN THE BEDROOM WHEN SLEEPING!! Leave it in the kitchen or other area far away from you.

PART TWO - EAT WELL

WHAT DO YOU EAT?? 

What does the perfectly healthy day of food look like? 

•   How have you learned about what healthy food is?
•   How do you know what food is tasty?
•   What is different about food now than, say, forty years (or more) ago?

What the World Eats: http://time.com/8515/what-the-world-eats-hungry-planet/ 

What do we say is a good diet in Canada? http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/food-guide-aliment/print_eatwell_bienmang-eng.pdf 

WORKSHEET - Okay, so let's figure out your typical day of food and diet - and see how it stacks up to the Canada Food Guide: using the food guide, let's all complete the FOOD DIARY worksheet.

Future Work and Eight Careers of Interest

What is the Future of Human Work??

Check this out! 

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/17/16671328/boston-dynamics-backflip-robot-atlas 

What might this mean about the future of work?

Let's Watch the series Robots and Us - and see what we think about each episode.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dxEjUuwSuvNkAPmc_J4we6M 

Take Notes for marks!

Second Half of Class - Library

1. Login to My Blueprint

2. Go to your Match Results

3. Complete the compatability quizzes for at least 8 jobs.

4. Favourite them. (Heart symbol)

5. Add them to your Portfolio

6. Complete the 8 Careers of Interest Worksheet

Catch-Up Day

1) Are you missing any of these assignments? Do these first. Ask me for copies.

• Things I Know About Me
• My Blueprint - Survey Results
• Mindset Quiz
• Thinking Style Inventory
• Happy Survey
• Happy Questions
• Dear Future Self Letter

2) Do you have all these pieces completed inside of your My Blueprint Portfolio?

• All 4 Surveys
• Five long term goals posted
• Journal Entry - Your Mind Style
• Upload Dear Future Self Letter into Portfolio

3) All done? Then go ahead in My Blueprint... and find eight jobs that interest you under Who Am I? --> Match Results. Complete eight compatibility quizzes, at least, and then favourite your top eight (press the heart button then add them to your portfolio.)

Future Letter to Yourself

In just four years you will be preparing to graduate from high school! 

Maybe that feels like a long way from now, but the time will fly by faster than you think. You will grow taller and stronger, your voice might change (guys), your brain will evolve, your sense of what is important will shift and you will find yourself becoming more serious, more aware of the future ahead of you.

So, as a way of keeping your grade 8 self alive, I want you to write and email a letter to your future self.

What should you write about? Anything really... Ask yourself questions...give yourself advice on love, education, goals... talk about what grade 8 has been like...

If you want a specific structure, here you go:

1. Paragraph 1 Current mood — How you’re feeling, what’s happening in your life right now? What are you fears and motivations? How has grade 8 been?
2. Paragraph 2 Questions for your future self — What are grappling with now? What are you curious to ask your future self? 
3. Paragraph 3 Aspirations for the next years — What do you hope to achieve?
4. Paragraph 4 Advice Giving - Stop, Start, Continue (What are 3–5 things you should stop doing, start doing, continue doing?)
5. Further Paragraphs More Advice Giving - General (What would you advise yourself to be like in the future? ex. Dear Future Self, I really hope you have a lot more confidence than you do know. Because I know you can do great things.)

The letter should be at least four well-developed paragraphs. But, feel free to make it as long as you like. Up to 20 marks for each unique detail and idea and question and thought. :) 

Hand in a paper copy to me, and upload it to your My Blueprint Portfolio but then you can also go ahead and email it to yourself! You have two choices: 

www.futureme.org                      -   you can control the exact date you will receive the email with this site, but you will have to respond to a confirmation email to make it work.

http://lettertomyfutureself.net/    -  this one only offers set times and you would have to pick either three years (end of grade 11) or five years (springtime of your first year out of high school). But it is easy and there is no confirmation email or anything.

Happy Writing!