Some of the negative effects of social media for teens include comparing themselves to others who look like they are perfect, cyberbullying, feelings of loneliness and being left out, and less time doing real-world activities. We can also notice that there is a connection between social media and depression.
I think stigma usually comes from misunderstandings of mental illnesses and by saying things out loud to the public that you believe are true but actually are not. Stigma can cause people to feel distressed and sometimes stop them from asking for help. Everybody can help fight stigma by educating themselves about mental illnesses.
I mainly learned about the mental health condition of eating disorders. I realized that an eating disorder is a serious and often fatal illness that is associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Also, eating disorders mostly, 95%, appear in ages 12 to 25. It is important to understand eating disorder because we can be aware of what is a healthy body, prevent looking at posts of stimulus body photos, early treatment, a decrease stigma, and an increase empathy for people who has eating disorder.
In one of Jonathan Haidt’s research, studies and collaborative reviews have documented a rise in anxiety and depression among adolescents, particularly since the early 2010s, with social media being identified as a major contributing factor. The negative effects are more pronounced in girls, with stronger correlations between social media use and poor mental health outcomes.
Next, according to an article from EdWeek, a superintendent, Bill Wilson said “The decision to implement a no-phone policy was mostly about improving student behavior, mental health, and safety.” District leaders also wanted to “help students focus on learning and take one element of distraction and disruption out of their life at least for the time that they were at school—7 ½, eight hours of freedom from having to worry about what social media was thinking, saying, doing,” he said.
We interviewed a current high school student. She mentioned one day when she was eating lunch with her friends, she was scrolling on TikTok and watched a comparatively negative video talking about depression. She immediately got dragged into the video and sympathized with the content of the video, which affected her mood for the rest of the school day.
My opinion:
It is true that when phone usage in high school is not restricted, students’ social-emotional health and relationships will be negatively impacted. My opinion comes from my personal experiences where excessive phone usage among friends led to a lack of meaningful communication and connection during in-person gatherings, highlighting the potential harm phones can have on relationships. I observed how phones can act as distractions, bothering interactions and bonding moments with family or even friends.
Teachers and parents are likely to have the perspective that unrestricted access to cell phones in high school may have detrimental effects on students’ social-emotional health and relationships. They understand that excessive phone usage can lead to a decrease in face-to-face interactions, impact your emotions in an unhealthy way like anxiety, so they would agree that implementing guidelines to regulate phone usage is essential.
Strategies not to let cellphones impact my emotional health and relationships:
To protect my emotional health and school relationships next year, I plan to adopt several strategies regarding phone usage. Setting boundaries like specific times for phone use and prioritizing communications will help me to build stronger connection with others. Mindful consumption of digital content and limiting social media exposure aim to reduce stress and comparison triggers. Creating phone-free zones during study sessions or social gatherings will encourage meaningful engagement and minimize distractions resulting in fewer anxiety and worry. By integrating these strategies, I aim to maintain a healthy relationship with technology while maintaining positive emotional well-being and stronger social relationships.
Photos related to my claim “Cell phones in high school are negatively impacting teens’ social-emotional well-being and relationships.”
What is my WOOP Goal, and how is it important to me (outcome)?
My WOOP goal is to sleep earlier and to wake up earlier. I chose this goal because due to homework and study, I had to sleep late to finish so this led me to feel tired or exhausted while classes or even after class. With this bad habit of sleeping late, also impacted me to wake up later than I am supposed to resulting in rushing through everything in the morning. Therefore, I decided to set this goal to grow a new healthy habit for my mental and physical health.
How does it relate to my wellness compass?
I think the section care for body and school/work can be related to my WOOP goal since sleeping early and waking up early is an aspect of where you take care of your body to stay healthy and fit. This can also be in the section school/work because the reasons to stay late is due to homework and with the ability to manage my time well, and stopping the procrastination can help me to at least sleep a bit more earlier.
Which law of building habits did I apply in my plan?
Making it obvious and satisfying is included in my WOOP goal. Getting enough sleep can be satisfying because I will feel refreshed in the morning. Also this is a very obvious goal. Sleep is one of the most essential aspect to maintain to stay healthy.
What is my obstacles and how do I overcome it?
Some of the obstacles I have faced is that even if I plan my time, when I have classes or some of the projects that take way much longer than I expected, this will make me sleep later at night. I overcame this by rescheduling everything and making the schedule possible for me to achieve instead of making it unrealistic.
Pictures that represent my goal:
It is an illustration of a Sleep situation. Start from the left, look at the bottom then the top. This illustrates what happens in the morning when you get to sleep in different time.
We used ratios and rates to get how fast we go in 1m. After we got all the ratios and rates we tried to go as similar to the 1 to 1 ratio.
2. If you could re-do this project, what changes would you make during your timed trials to help your prediction for the final race?
I would have improved on telling my teammates to slow down or go quicker because we couldn’t keep track of time so some went too fast and some went a bit slow. We could try counting accurately while we are doing the race.
3. What units of the measure did you use during your timed trials? How important were units in your process? What happened to groups that didn’t include units on their paper?
We used seconds to measure our timed trials. Units were pretty important in our process because with naked numbers we can’t predict if it is seconds, minutes, or hours. Also for distance, we wouldn’t know if it is miles, meters, kilometers, etc. I predict that groups who haven’t included units on their paper didn’t meet the standard, since units are always important to notice easily and understand.
Creating a portfolio, or blog is a great way to collect all the work you’ve done throughout your academic career. You can include academic, athletic, and personal artifacts or experiences that you want to share with a wider audience. This is a great way to organize all your learning in one place and you can take it with you when you leave SAS. When you make your portfolio, you create posts that are categorized according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you, but if you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category. Think of this as the first opportunity to engage and hook your reader!
Body – this is where you share your learning. This should include a combination of text and media in the form of images, graphics, and embedded videos. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging and organized? Do they want to keep reading?
Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
Tags – create tags that can be used as keywords to describe your post. Tags help organize your post a little more! Aim to have 3-5 tags for each post. For example, if you are posting about a novel you wrote, you might want the following tags: #Fiction, #MurderMystery, #Theme, #PlotDiagram
Click on the images below to find a few helpful tips for creating your posts, adding media, and making categories:
