Week Six, March 8 - Social Media

Week Six, March 8

Using Data to Make Connections

Do Now

The following five slides have five polls. Simply choose the answer you think is correct in the poll. The answers will be revealed at the end. You will not lose points for wrong answers. Simply do your best and don't cheat.

Poll

Born after 1996

• Generation Z

• Silent Generation

• Generation X

• Baby Boomers

• Millenials

Poll

Born between 1928 to 1945

• Silent Generation

• Millenials

• Baby Boomers

• Generation X

• Generation Z

Poll

Born between 1981 to 1996

• Millenials

• Baby Boomers

• Generation X

• Generation Z

• Silent Generation

Poll

Born between 1965 to 1980

• Generation X

• Generation Y

• Silent Generation

• Millenials

• Baby Boomers

Poll

Born between 1946 to 1964

• Millenials

• Baby Boomers

• Silent Generation

• Generation X

• Generation Z

Names of the Generations

• Generation Z: born after 1996

• Millenial: born 1981 to 1996

• Generation X: born 1965 to 1980

• Baby Boomer: born 1946 to 1964

• Silent Generation: born 1928 to 1945

Poll

What generation are your parents from?

• Generation Z

• Generation X

• Baby Boomers

• Silent Generation

• Millenials

Breakout rooms

In your Breakout Room, rank these social media apps in order of how much you use them. (This list is also on your Google Doc).

Tumblr

Instagram

Snapchat

Twitter

TikTok

Facebook

Reddit

YouTube

Breakout Rooms

Compare your data to the teens of 2018

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Poll

Has social media had a mostly positive or mostly negative effect on people your age?

• Mostly positive

• Mostly negative

Breakout Rooms

In Breakout Rooms with classmates that chose the same answer as you, you will come up with five reasons why social media has had a mostly positive or mostly negative effect on people your age

Open Ended

Choose a historical era: How would social media have altered the events of the era you chose? (minimum of three COMPLETE sentences)