Cognition, Brain Health and Social Media Infographic
Your task is to create a complex and info rich infographic sharing your best insights about cognition, brain health and social media to a peer audience. This can include statistics, quotes, findings, insights, new science, etc.
For audience, consider your smartest, open-minded college friends, and what might appeal to them. We may print some of these for distribution around campus, so consider what might have helped you or a friend when you were feeling down and needed some support and info.
You can take a variety of different tactics, for example:
- Solutions: Social Media’s effect on brain health: problems (issues, stats, science), then solutions ( learning better focus, controlling attention, healthier behaviors and habits, better apps)
- Choices: New habits, routines or actions that worsen vs improve brain health. eg Does Chat GPT contribute or detract from cognitive skills? What kinds of activities do improve brain health?
- Consider Idiocracy & Wall-E as stories about diminished intelligence and mental dexterity. Can you cite behaviors or examples that lead to this?
- Your own ideas.
Remember that you can take some creative liberty with this assignment to make it your own as long as you are creating a visual message about this topic for your peers.
Samples below are about a related topic–depression (which we will review next week):
