Feedback generation prompt, Outdated career advice, Transitioning from primary to secondary school
Welcome to Raised. The weekly update with 5 things to better understand our rapidly transforming digital world and help raise thriving children.
This week:
⚡️Social: 4.8 hours per day on social media
⚡️Social: The Death of Social Media
🔍 Research: Transitioning from primary to secondary school
📚Education: Outdated career advice
🦉Learning: Feedback generation prompt
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Tina
1/ ⚡️Social
4.8 hours per day on social media
Data are from the Familial and Adolescent Health Survey conducted by Gallup for the Institute for Family Studies found:
U.S. teenagers spend an average of 4.8 hours per day using social media.
Teens who spend more than 5 hours a day on social media were 60% more likely to express suicidal thoughts or harm themselves, 2.8 times more likely to hold a negative view of their body, and 30% more likely to report a lot of sadness the day before
Screen time use has no association with an index of mental health problems for teens who demonstrate high levels of self-control and enjoy a strong relationship with parents who supervise them.
It should be noted that the survey is based on a sample of only 1,567 adolescents. The methodology states that participants are from a 100,000 member survey population ‘Panel’ established by Gallup that is ‘a representative sample of all American households.’ Also, the survey scope did not include Snapchat or Discord, which are also popular amongst teens.
🔗 How parenting and self-control mediate the link between social media use and youth mental health (Institute for Family Studies)
🔗 Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day (Gallup survey)
2/ ⚡️Social
The Death of Social Media?
For older generations, maybe..
Although there’s a view in established media that social platforms are on the way out, I’ve seen a couple different data sources showing that teens are using social media now more than ever, but just not in the ‘social’ ways that we became accustomed when social media was new and before platforms went down the path of entshittification.
“Social media’s greatest strength is thus its original sin: These sites are excellent at making you feel connected and informed, frequently at the expense of actually being informed,”
Or, perhaps we’re proper adults now and aren’t enjoying these sites a little because we’re not so fun anymore? Never!
🔗 This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become (The Atlantic)
🔗 Why the Internet isn’t fun anymore (The New Yorker)
3/ 🔍 Research
Transitioning from primary to secondary school
I didn’t know anything about ways to help children transition from primary to high school. Five key needs they have at this stage:
The need for safety
The need for relatedness
The need for autonomy
The need for competency
The need for enjoyment
The need for identity development
Prior to transitioning, children often worry about being bullied and getting lost in a new setting.
While friendships can be relatively unstable during the transition period, the research finds that helping children maintain a best friend during this period may contribute to better academic performance, fewer conduct problems and improved mental health.
🔗 What do students need to support their transition to secondary school? (Education Research Journal)
4/ 📚Education
Outdated career advice
This is an important theme that we can help with in terms of how we talk to young people about different career pathways. There’s shortage occupations with high demand in the job market that require university degrees, as well as trades. The former shouldn’t necessarily be promoted as the only sensible option; depending on the individual, better job prospects and avoidance of unnecessary debt can also be gained with a vocational education, and in some cases independent skills development.
Canva, mentioned in the article, is part of a broader trend of organisations removing degree requirements in favour of skills-based hiring. This topic has been popping up in the Work:life newsletter, in case you’re not subscribed ;)
🔗 Calls for national overhaul to career advice to tackle uni-centric focus for school students (ABC News)
5/ 🦉Learning
Feedback generation prompt
Here’s a comprehensive prompt that can be used for students to ascertain feedback on assignments from Open AI’s GPT4 or Microsoft Bing in Creative mode. I like it because it asks for the assessment criteria and limits the response to provide direct feedback rather than full answers.
🔗 Assignment feedback and improvement (Source: Harvard Education)
🔗 Working 9 to 5, Hopefully (NY Times)
Future ready?
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