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Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 1: Adolescent Cognitive Development and Technology

Adolescent Cognitive Development and Technology Topics

OurTeenBrains: The Effect Of Social Media On The Teenage Brain

BoysTown: Adolescent brain and social media

American Psychological Association: Why young brains are especially vulnerable to social media

Melbourne Age: Social media causing 'mind change' in adolescents 

Nature Communications: Media use and brain development during adolescence 

PsyPost: Teens who are “addicted” to TikTok experience worse depression and anxiety, and in turn, reduced working memory capacity

Merrimack College: The effects of social media on the physical, social emotional and cognitive development of adolescents 

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience: Effects of Internet use on the adolescent brain: despite popular claims, experimental evidence remains scarce 

Project Muse: “God Only Knows What It’s Doing to Our Children’s Brains”: A Closer Look at Internet Addiction Discourse 

ResearchGate: Information technology, internet use and adolescents 

Media and Communications: Possible effects of internet use on cognitive development in adolescents

Cogitatio: Possible Effects of Internet Use on Cognitive Development in Adolescence 

CBS News: What do mobile phones do to teenage brains?
CPR News: What Phones Do To Teen Brains (And What Teens Wanted To Know About That)
Scientific American: Are smart phones really destroying the adolescent brain? 
Forbes: Can Smartphones Adversely Affect Cognitive Development In Teens?
Digital distraction - what makes the internet and the smart phone so attractive? 
Chapter from ebook, from Lane, Sean M [Ed]; Atchley, Paul [Ed]. (2021). Human capacity in the attention economy. (pp. 27-47). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association
Frontiers in Psychology: Smartphones and cognition - A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning 
University of Woolloongong: Uses of mobile phones and changes in cognitive functions in adolescents 

Scientific American: Does TV rot your brain?

PBS News Hour: The drug-like effect of screen time on the teenage brain

PsyPost: Watching television and playing video games associated with poorer academic performance

Economics of Education Review: Is the ‘Idiot’s Box’ raising idiocy? Early and middle childhood television watching and child cognitive outcome 

Cerebral Cortex: The Impact of Television Viewing on Brain Structures: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

BrainFacts.org: Watching TV Alters Children’s Brain Structure and Lowers IQ

 

Polygon: How video games can affect adolescent brains
PsyPost: Internet game overuse linked to impaired feedback processing for symbolic reward

Trails Carolina: Video game addiction in teens - effects on the teen brain

PsyPost: Watching television and playing video games associated with poorer academic performance

Science Direct: The influence of computer games on children's development. Exploratory study of the attitude of parents 

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Using computerised games to teach face recognition skills to children with autism spectrum disorder 

Science Daily: Video games can change your brain

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience: Effects of computer gaming on cognition, brain structure, and function: a critical reflection on existing literature 

Advanced Web Searching Tips

1. Use 'Ctrl F' (Control + Find) to search for particular terms easily in a long document, whether from a website or a database article.
2.  Use a Boolean command - put double inverted commas around phrases to limit and improve your results eg "energy drinks cardiovascular problems children". 
3. Use a Google domain command eg site:edu OR site:gov to limit results to a CERTAIN DOMAIN such as education or government eg biodiesel site:edu
4. Use a Google command to limit results to the MOST RECENT: After you get your results, choose the Google Menu Bar, and choose 'Tools'. Then on the far left, at the drop-down menu next to 'Any Time', you can choose 'Within the last year' (or less, if you prefer), but generally, you can choose 'Custom Range' at the bottom, as often the last 3-4 years would be sufficient for a recent search.

Exemplar Claim and Research Question

Claim: Natural shampoos are better than synthetic shampoos.

Research Question: Are natural shampoos better cleaners than synthetic shampoos based on the properties of surface tension, wetting time, solid content, detergency and foaming ability?

Writing the Rationale

MyBib Referencing Generator - APA7

Manage your bibliography using "MyBib" - Referencing - LibGuides at Melbourne High School

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ONESearch Database Explorer

The ENTIRE collection of resources provided by the BBC Birtles Library can be searched on ONE single, powerful search platform, which retrieves print books, eBooks, database articles and websites. Click HERE for assistance.

Useful Databases

Science Direct 

 Access Science

Gale Science in Context

Facts on File : Science Online

 Science Reference Center

 STEM Database

 Gale Academic Onefile

 Informit

 Science News

Highly respected Science journal. Login with email: jking@bbc.qld.edu.au. Use the little magnifying glass symbol in the top toolbar to search.

 Cosmos Journal