Our pods final assignment project. our topic is How does social media affect attention span, focus, productivity, and learning in digital environments? This is the final copy of the project.
Category: Open and Distributed learning
This week is the last week for our class, and our pod has is in the final steps of finished the assignment. We are now focusing on putting together our website in a visually appealing way while also still keeping our research and stats together. We also want to make sure that everyone’s parts all flow together seamlessly.
Our pod divided up each part of the assignment so that everyone had a different part to research, this made the process easier for each person to deep dive on their topic.
My only downside with this assignment is that it being an online class our pod had troubles finding time to meet up hence it was not as seamless as it could have been. Nonetheless I am proud how everything came together in the end.
This week as a pod we decided on what direction we wanted our assignment to go format wise. Previously in other classes I had done a website, and we thought that it would be the most interesting route to take.
I have been collecting information on how social media is used in the education system, I have also been reflecting on my own experiences with social media throughout my education and its effects on my learning. I will continue to find more information, my goal for this part of the assignment is to also collect more graphics that can go along with my stats.
For this assignment our group chose “The effects on learning due to the COVID -19 pandemic” for our topic. We thought that considering our last lecture it was a fitting and interesting topic. The project is broken down into four main topics:
1. What is your distributed and open inquiry question?
2. What is the relationship of your topic to teaching and learning?
3. What are the pros, cons, and risks?
4. What are some of the strategies, best practices, and tips regarding your inquiry findings?
In the audio file I am the third speaker answering the third question.
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.