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WorksheetsFinding My Media Balance
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What three questions should you ask yourself when thinking about your own media balance?
Why? When? Where?
What? When? How much?
Here? There? Everywhere?
Where? Who? How?
Media balance includes activities that involve:
Different types of digital media.
Different types of media.
Different types of non-media activities.
All of the above.
How much time should people spend with their family to be balanced?
At least one hour per day.
At least the same amount of time they spend using digital media.
However much feels healthy and positive, which may be different for everyone.
Pick the questions you should be asking when you're trying to create a healthy media balance.
What you choose?
When you use it?
If dogs are smarter than cats?
How much you consume?
Sometimes the best media choice is _____________.
Staying up all night playing online games on a school night
No media at all
What is the best definition for "digital media"
connecting to Wi-Fi
information that comes to us through the internet, often through a table, smartphone, or laptop
using apps
Click on all non-media choices you can make.
What to have for lunch.
Which game to play on your iPad.
Whether to ride your bike or go swimming.
Which song to listen to on your phone.
Click on all media choices you can make.
What to have for lunch.
Which game to play on your iPad.
Whether to ride your bike or go swimming.
Which song to listen to on your phone.
The choices we make about what media we use effects how we feel.
True
False
Pick the definition for media balance.
Being able to hold five pounds of potatoes in each hand.
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
Using media in a way that doesn't feel healthy or in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
Which is the best definition for "digital habits"
Things you do everyday before you go to bed
Behavior we do often on our electronic devices
Behavior that we show only with our friends
Kaira likes to create art. Making things by hand feels good. But lately Kaira is so busy keeping up with friends online that there never seems to be enough time. Imagine you're Kaira. What should you do?
Wait to see if your schedule slows down again, such as when the school year ends.
Use a sketching app while watching videos or while someone else is talking.
Schedule times for making art by hand, invite interested friends, and turn off your phones.
Cross this activity off your list, because you can't do everything.
