Students debate different kinds of majors on social media - Stag Rezscore Insight

Studentsdiscussing anddebatingsocialmedia. By choosing topics for teenagedebatearound TikTok, influencers, online privacy, and beauty filters, you’re giving yourstudentsmore than just an engaging classroom activity.

MediaLiteracy.Debate.Socialmediais good forsocietybecause it lets you write to people if you need help. You can interact with other people and have fun. You can learn from people who live indifferentcountries.

Socialmediais making us lesssocial.High SchoolDebateTopics FAQs. What academic skills do high schoolstudentslearn fromdebating?Debatesteachstudentsto research their topic, make informed choices, and argue effectively using facts instead of emotion.

Studentsdebatethe lessons of the Reddit-driven GameStop mania.Future View discusses the role ofsocialmediain coordinating the GameStop stock-market mania.

NYUSocialPsychologist Jonathan Haidt makes a definitive case thatsocialmediais amajorcause of mental illness in teen girls. Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational.

Learn howsocialmediause generally varies among members ofdifferentgenerations and how to connect with your colleagues fromdifferentage groups online.

(This is the third semester where AUstudentshave engaged in a blogdebateover the Internet's impact on community. For pastdebates, go here and here.) At issue is the following

Manystudentssaid thatsocialmediahas been “detrimental” to the way they feel about their looks, and that even though they are aware it doesn’t show the full picture, they still struggle not to compare themselves to the people they see online.

Themajorityofdifferencesinsocialmediause were reported by young people with internalising conditions. For example, “socialcomparison” – comparing themselves to others online – was twice as high in adolescents with internalising conditions (48%, around one in two)...