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Writer's pictureTina Gallico
Jan 83 min read

Falling test scores in OECD countries | Raised #16

Updated: Nov 24

⚡️YouTube trends for 2023 🚀 Concept mapping 🛜 Breakdown of U.S. teen social media use 🪴Misinformation as an age-old problem

 
Edaith Raised Brief

Raised Brief 10.01.2024

 

I hope you’ve had a great start to the new year. Due to deliverability issues I’ve had to change the platform for sending Edaith’s briefs. If this is the first issue to arrive in your inbox then it worked! 💯

 

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Tina


 

1/ 📚Education


Falling test scores in OECD countries


OECD declining Pisa test scores

  • PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment - is a worldwide study conducted by the OECD every three years. It evaluates 15-year-old students' skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science to provide internationally comparative data on students' performance.

  • Results from the testing round in 2022 have just been released.

  • Over the last 10 years average student performance in mathematics, reading and science have been trending downward in OECD countries.


🔗 PISA 2022 results (OECD)



2/ 🛜 Online


Breakdown of U.S. teen social media use


Pew Teen social media

  • Pew Research Centre recently conducted a survey of 1,453 13- to 17-year-olds on the U.S.

  • YouTube was found to be the most widely used platform, followed by TikTok

  • Although some sites are used almost universally by teens, there are some differences by gender, race and ethnicity, age, and household income.


Pew teen social media demographic breakdown

The findings indicate roughly the same amount of internet use as last year, but substantially more than when the survey was conducted in 2014-2015.

 

🔗 Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023 (Pew Research Center)



3/ ⚡️Social


YouTube trends for 2023


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If you’re in the mood to feel out of touch, check some of these out. If you’re in the mood to feel out of touch, check some of these out.


It’s important to remember though that volume of content uploaded each day and algorithms for YouTube and TikTok do not work in the same way as Facebook and older social networks. Virality and trends have become much more ephemeral, distributed and personalised. So being on this list, doesn’t necessarily mean that a daily YouTube user is familiar with the content.

 



4/ 🪴Development


Misinformation as an age-old problem


“Virtually every form of communication technology has been met with its very own public outcry. In mid-15th century Europe, people destroyed dozens of print shops in a wave of anti-Gutenberg sentiment. The rise of radio in the 1930s led some American parents to fret about its corrupting influence on their children. Even the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates wasn’t immune to the moral panic of his day. “He didn’t like writing at all. It was suspicious,”



5/ 🚀 Skills


Concept mapping


Edaith concept mapping


Concept mapping is a problem-solving and analytical thinking tool that visually organizes ideas, to create a holistic and structured strategic view of the topic being explored. Different types of linkages can clarify different types of relationships between concepts, highlighting association, cause-effect, hierarchy, or other attributes.

 

Ideal uses

 

Studying and learning: Helps students organize information, understand complex topics, and prepare for exams.

Project planning: Useful for brainstorming, planning, and organizing ideas for projects or research.

Problem-solving processes: Useful for brainstorming, organizing thoughts, and generating new ideas by displaying relationships between various concepts.

 

How to create a concept map

 

1.     Select a central theme or idea and write it in the centre of the page. Identify the main concepts related to the central theme and write them in branches connected to the centre.

 

Keep it simple. use keywords, phrases, or simple sentences. Avoid overcrowding or overcomplicating the map.

 

2.     Create linkages

 

Hierarchical links: Use arrows or lines to show hierarchy or sequence e.g. cause and effect, top-down relationship.

 

Association links: Use lines to show associations or connections between related concepts. Alternating colours or types of lines and concept scan signify different attributes or types of relationships.

 

Cross-links: Connect concepts that relate to each other despite being in different areas of the map.

 

For example, if solving a complex problem like climate change, a concept map could help visualise various factors contributing to it, such as human activities, greenhouse gases, environmental impacts, policies, and solutions. Each factor can be linked and organised, to enable a better understanding of the complexity and connections between different aspects.


 

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