Digital Media and your Brain - Part 1

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Digital Media
and Your Brain

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Essential Question

How does digital media try to hook you, and what can you do about it?

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What are some things you like to do on your phone or other devices?

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Why do you enjoy doing these different activities?

• Makes me feel good

• Being entertained

• I find it interesting

• Maintain and create new friendships

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Explore ways that different types of digital media
are, and aren't, designed to help us make good media choices.

Reflect on how digital media is designed to either help or hinder the addition of meaning and value in our lives.

Think about how to develop good, healthy habits when using digital media.

Learning Objectives

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Be ready to write about it on the next slide.

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• If you were writing a caption for the image on the previous slide, what would you write?

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KEY VOCABULARY

Habit

Something we do automatically without thinking

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this!

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A habit is something we do ​

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Do you have any habits - either good or bad?

Try drawing your habit or write it in the box to the right.

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KEY VOCABULARY

Addictive design

Features or aspects of a device or app that are intended to hook the user into frequent use

Feedback loop

A response to something you do or post online that causes your brain to experience a temporary moment of pleasure

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Drag and Drop

Addictive design is used to ​

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users to get the user to have ​

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use with applications.

When you have a response to something you do or post online, your​

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has a temporary moment of ​

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. This is know as a feedback loop because your brain wants you to ​

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hook

stop

frequent

little

brain

heart

pleasure

sadness

do it again

stop immediately

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Drag and Drop

Addictive design may include​

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, ​

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rewards increase as you play more

penalties for leaving the app

autoplay and countdown features

timers for taking breaks

The ability to disconnect without penalty