For our Inquiry project our pod decided to dive into the impacts of social media on peoples attention span. Specifically how social media usages affects peoples focus and productivity levels.

To get the ball rolling our pod created a shared google doc where we collaborated and reflected on our own personal social media and online habits. On the google doc we also listed tasks and delegated them accordingly.

Week 1 tasks:

~ Collect stats and discuss the social media use in teenagers and its impacts on their behaviour

~Look further into Australias ban on social media use for teenagers 16 years old and younger. Deciding whether or not this has positivity impacted Australia compared to Canada or the US.

~Looking through course content to find research on how social media is used in an educational way.

As a group we will collectively work together to collect statistics on average screen time, apps that are used the most and how many times the average person unlocks their phone. We will also reflect social media tendency’s and how it affects people’s learning abilities. Lastly we will look into future implications and if limiting social media use would truly change people’s ability to learn better through less distractions and improving attentions spans.

Our learning pod has been working together to gather sources and information in a collaborative space. We have been able to gather our own information and although we have had a harder timer meeting via zoom to discuss we have made a group chat and the Google Docs which has been extremely helpful to keep everyone in the loop.