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Peer review 3: Usage of personal music players in adolescents [...]

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Peer review 3: Usage of personal music players in adolescents [...]

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This article is about Personal Music Players (PMP) and how teenagers/ adolescents are using them. It talks about how when teens use their devices for leisure, they tend to not notice how loud the music is rather than the music itself.

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.elm4you.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=120212438&site=ehost-live

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I like this youtube video because it was a short and easy way to gain information on Noise Induced Hearing Loss. It was very engaging and it kept me interested. I used the information in this YouTube videos to put in the announcements for my "Turn It To The Left" Challenge. I also used the style of video as an inspiration for my own YouTube video that I created using PowToon.

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Learn About the Causes of Noise Induced Hearing Loss

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Audiology Associates of Deerfield, PC 400 Lake Cook Road, Suite 108 Deerfield, IL 60015 (847) 999-0211 http://deerfieldaudiology.com Audiology Associates of Deerfield, PC 1535 Lake Cook Road, Suite 412 Northbrook, IL 60062 (847) 999-0272 http://deerfieldaudiology.com

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I used this website, Teen Safe, to help me justify why I chose these outcomes.
The reasons I chose to do these outcomes is because teens like to be challenged and they participate because they want to prove that they can do the challenge. I chose to make a YouTube channel because students spend a lot of their time on social media and watching movies and videos.
https://www.teensafe.com/blog/why-are-social-media-challenges-popular-teens/

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Due to the fact that my target audience is teenagers/high school students,  I decided to do a challenge for my final outcome in addition to a YouTube video. because teenagers like to watch a lot of YouTube videos. I decided making a channel may appeal to them as well as encourage them to learn about the topic. Because many teenager are competitive, I also decided to do a challenge to see who could really go a whole school week without using their earbuds.

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Peer review 2: [...]Prevention of temporary threshold shift

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Peer review 2: [...]Prevention of temporary threshold shift

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This article was all about how we can prevent the gradual decay of our hearing by not messing it up know, as young individuals. It talks about how temporary threshold shift (TTS) is a type of Noise Induced Hearing Loss but it can lead to the acceleration of aging hearing loss. I used this article for information on how to prevent hearing loss and put it in my youtube video.

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.elm4you.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=116487389&site=ehost-live

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Peer review 1: Hearing disorder from music; a neglected dysfunction

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Peer review 1: Hearing disorder from music; a neglected dysfunction

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I liked this article because it talked about how Music Induced hearing loss is now becoming a thing due to the fact that we have such advanced technology that can negatively stimulate the hairs in our ears leaving them damaged. I used this article to gain information about on how the world around us is playing a role in the deterioration of our senses.
http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.elm4you.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=keh&AN=127185278&site=ehost-live

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My target audience for this project is teenage students. I put them as my target audience because of the fact that in todays society, teenagers love to listen to things on high volume. With technology becoming more advanced, teenagers are becoming more and more accustomed to listening to things on a higher volume. Some of this advanced technology includes: power tools, live concerts, subs in cars, loud engines, earbuds or headphones on higher volume.  I used this website article, "There Are Scientific Reasons Your Teen Loves Loud Music". I uses this website article to help understand why so many teens like to listen to loud music and to support my reasoning my target audience being who I chose. in the last decade hearing loss in teens has gone up 30%!

-all genders, races, and socio-economic status
-ages 12-19
-St.Cloud MN community

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Lillie Forteau is a happy-go-lucky Michigan teen who loves Beyoncé and streaks the front of her curly black hair with emerald green. When Lillie wants to feel pumped for a workout, she grabs her MP3 player, cranks up her mom's '80s pop classics, and lets the music move her. The 13-year-old says it helps her feel "more hyper, helping me run faster or play better or whatever." Like most American teens, it's hard for Lillie to imagine not blasting music with a past-paced beat, ear buds in place.

"It would be weird for me to run on the treadmill and not listen to music. If I listen to music, I run faster and feel better," she says.

Lillie is not alone in her feelings of euphoria when listening to loud music. According to a Danish study published in 2014, the top three reasons teens said they listened to loud music were that they could feel and enjoy the music better, they could lose themselves in it, and they could get energy from listening to it.

The image of parents telling their teenagers to turn down the music has been around since people figured out how to play recorded music at home. But only recently have we thought to research exactly why it is that teens love the high volume, and what effects it might have on them-good and bad. Studies on a part of the ear called the sacculus may explain this consensus of good feelings and energy.

This tiny part of the inner ear, once thought to be functionless, first showed up in popular culture in the writings of Barry Blesser, an independent scholar and author of Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? In his 2009 paper " The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music," he shifted the scientific discussion away from figuring out how badly kids are destroying their hearing to why kids would want to do that at all.

Basically, loud music stimulates the sacculus, which has neural connections to pleasure centers in the hypothalamus. The louder the music, the more the brain releases endorphins and desires even louder music. By analyzing earlier studies dating back to 1995, Blesser found that music played over the level of 90 decibels activated the sacculus into a form of "self-stimulation" through the ear, and that the louder the music, the more it would stimulate the ear's reflex, opening the ear canal wider to get those decibels to the sacculus.

Six years after his initial paper, Blesser said that while fMRIs (a fancy acronym for brain scans taken while administering a task) have revolutionized how we study the brain, we're actually no closer to understanding the teenage brain on loud music. Part of it is because your parents were right all along: You could lose your hearing.

"The problem with researching this with science is that you can't get permission, because it is damaging," Blesser said. "You can do experiments on mice, but you can't do them on people. Just because you could do it doesn't mean you can do it."

The range between when your brain activates its pleasure and when severe hearing damage occurs to the inner ear is very small, Blesser said, which may account for more studies on how teens' hearing is damaged after they've already listened to music than on what happens in the brain during. But also, adults are the people conducting the tests. Their opinion matters, and Blesser says that if adults are so focused on how teens will lose their hearing, it can shut down the line of questioning about why teens are attracted to the decibels in the first place.

Loud music stimulates adults and teens in different ways. And this also depends on the type of music being played.

Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain on Music, was the first to present evidence that a person's musical taste is imprinted at the age of 14. For parents who don't understand how their kids could listen to what they do, Levitin's research suggests that they might not hear the music the way their kids do, because the adult's taste is largely already solidified.

As Levitin told the American Society of Audiology, "As an adult, the new music I hear becomes assimilated within the framework of the music I knew as a youth. So we continually add new information to our cognitive database, but we retrieve and analyze it in terms of what we already know."

Does your kid's music resemble your favorite Monkees album, or does it sound like your mother's Lawrence Welk to your brain? You may not know it, but your brain is processing that information and making the decisions for you.

Add to this that adults have already lived through their teenage years, and they probably also played loud music and damaged their hearing. That literally blocks them from being able to hear the music like their kids do, with a fresh and receptive sacculus.

All of this research may also account for why music has historically been used as a weapon since as early as the Roman Empire, when hundreds of horn players disrupted the equilibrium of their enemies. Some adults may erroneously think a teen's music is his weapon.

In the case of teenager Jordan Davis, who was gunned down by Michael Dunn for playing loud music in a gas station parking lot, Dunn had yelled at Davis to turn down his music, but Davis either didn't hear or didn't comply. Dunn argued that Davis' noncompliance was aggressive. The murder trial-which became known as the "loud music case"-became the subject of the documentary 3½ Minutes, 10 Bullets. (Disclosure: TakePart's parent company, Participant Media, partnered with the Filmmaker Fund/Motto Pictures and produced the documentary in association with Lakehouse Films and Actual Films.)

This tragedy may also beg the question of why we've spent time researching why a teen's brain listens to loud music and not why an adult's first instinct is to punish youth for the impulse, especially since an adult's learning has already been imprinted on the brain while teens are still "pruning" synapses (receptors).

According to research from Jay Giedd of the National Institute for Mental Health, teens have an excess of neurons and synapses, so they are basically feeling and sensing everything more intensely. As their brains grow, these receptors are pruned back like a tree, solidifying certain connections and weakening others based around learning. So if a teen listens to loud music repeatedly, those connections will become stronger, and the teen will want more music. Experts liken the way teen brains learn to addiction-repeated exposure rewires the brain.

Of course, it's not just the mechanics of how ears and the brain work that matters when teens are choosing thudding rap music or blaring punk rock. The hormonally charged decisions of newly developed personal belief systems-antiauthority, pro-good times, inwardly reflective-are wrapped up in these choices. The choice to listen to loud music that also represents how teens view the world is almost impulsive, not even a choice. Evidence that the teen brain's white matter has not fully developed even led researchers to find that teenagers scientifically have difficulty with impulse control.

In Beatriz Luna's groundbreaking "anti-saccade" studies-saccade refers to a type of reflexive eye movement controlled by the prefrontal cortex-she asked children, teens, and adults to ignore a flickering light on a screen while tracking their eyes and, therefore, their ability to overcome the impulse. The children succeeded at a rate of 50 percent, teens at 70, and adults at 90, backing up fMRI research of the prefrontal cortex and its slower development into adulthood. In the teen brain especially, she found that there's a kind of struggle going on-good versus evil-because the prefrontal cortex is more developed than a child's, but teens' need for immediate gratification is still battling their control.

So imagine a brain that is constantly seeking pleasure, being bombarded with sensory information, and having trouble suppressing impulses. It's chaos. Loud music seems to be the answer for all these problems.

Clara Ko, a music therapist in Los Angeles, thinks teens use loud music as a kind of pain reliever.

"Listening to loud music may provide comfort or distraction to a constant process of growth," Ko said. "I would compare it to a music therapy technique in pain and symptom management."

According to Ko, one of the best tools in our arsenal for pain management-or teen management-is simple distraction, forcing the brain to take in other stimuli.

"Our central nervous system takes all stimulatory senses and sends them to the brain to process them. So when someone is in extreme pain, the CNS is busy delivering the pain signals to the brain," she said. "What we do as music therapists is play music to match the client's breathing pattern and heartbeat, to distract the CNS from taking only pain signals, widening the path for the musical stimulation in the CNS so it can be divided-or distracted-from pain."

Ko would never advise a teen to listen to ear-damaging music, but she understands why they would.

Lillie, who listens to music through her ear buds for 60 or 70 percent of the day, by her estimate, says she even relaxes to a meditation track when she's falling asleep to help tame her anxiety.

In 2010, the Kaiser Family Foundation found teens listened to music an average of two hours 19 minutes per day, but estimates place that number much higher now with the proliferation of streaming services. Add to that research that music is now produced to be louder than ever before, and it can be frustrating for parents looking to connect with their kids when their kids literally can't hear them.

But all this research suggests the best way to communicate with your teen is actually through music, with adults sharing their own musical tastes early on in their child's development. Because no matter how many studies you cite on hearing loss, your teen's brain might not listen. And that might be OK.

In Lillie's words, "I need two things. Music is that second thing. My distraction from everything else."

That "everything else" can be pretty painful. Loud music as a "second thing" may still be preferable to the alternatives. But make no mistake: Teens are highly sensitive beings fighting an uphill battle in their own brains.

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There Are Scientific Reasons Your Teen Loves Loud Music (Promoted)

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Lillie Forteau is a happy-go-lucky Michigan teen who loves Beyoncé and streaks the front of her curly black hair with emerald green. When Lillie wants to feel pumped for a workout, she grabs her MP3 player, cranks up her mom's '80s pop classics, and lets the music move her.

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I liked this video because it went more in depth than the other one. I was not too keen on the presentation (it was boring) but it did have really useful information. Did you know Noise Induced Hearing Loss in the second most common cause for hearing loss. I used the video for the good information and discarded the rest.

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Due to the fact that the youth of St. Cloud, Minnesota have become accustomed to loud noises, they may encounter the problem of NIHL at a young age, how might I advance their knowledge regarding Noise Induced Hearing Loss so that they will make concerted efforts to reduce the amount of time they are exposed to high volume environments leaving them less likely to develop NIHL as adults in 2018 and beyond?

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This is a website on the health of children. I specifically used the one on hearing loss in children. It told me a lot about the different types of hearing loss and the difference between the temporary and permeant damage that we see. One usually will have a threshold point where they feel their hearing is damaged but after a few hours it goes back to 'normal'. If you listen to loud music for a long period of time this can happen to you and eventually when your hearing will slowly stop going back to 'normal'. due to the fact that this happens so gradually, it can be hard to notice the difference in hearing.
http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/rock-music.html

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This is a good reference because it talks about how people need to pay attention to who loud their music is because it is affecting their ears especially due to the technology of earbuds that are becoming louder and smaller and putting major strain on our ears. This article was really useful because I learned that our ears have tiny hairs on them that catch sound waves so we can interpret them and words or a noise. As we get older or as we listen to excessively loud music, these hairs bend down and decay, once these hairs are gone... so is your hearing.
https://hpoal.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/on-the-rise-teens-with-hearing-loss/

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I like this article because although it is very broad, it gives a great overview of the many different impacts that technology can have on the body. From hearing, neck strain, and eyesight to social and psychological issues. I really liked the name of it, Digital Responsibility, because it enforces that we should hold ourselves accountable/ be responsible with our own technology, as well as the companies making it should take control to ensure they are not causing any damage to their customers.
http://www.digitalresponsibility.org/health-and-technology/

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This is a good article because it discuses how students are affected by technology. This is good because we are now given technology in school. I used this to improve my credibility by showing how technology is affecting more than just our hearing but as well as our eyesight. Some of my other article on here are for that purpose as well like sleep, and health and technology. Just like the article on sleep, I also used this article to compare how different affects of technology play into the role of our hearing and our daily lives.
https://www.aoa.org/newsroom/the-21st-century-child-increased-technology-use-may-lead-to-future-eye-health-and-vision-issues

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As teenagers we already don't get much sleep and technology is also a factor in that reason. It also affects our cognitive abilities to do work and stay focused. I used these articles because just like technology affects our sleep, it can also affect our hearing; I used this website because I was trying to find a correlation in which how technology affects on the different parts of our body and all have the same affect. New studies show that sleep deprivation has been linked to hearing loss.
https://www.sleephealthfoundation.org.au/public-information/fact-sheets-a-z/802-technology-sleep.html

https://www.hear-it.org/sleep-apnea-can-cause-hearing-loss

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Hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the United States. Twenty two million Americans are exposed to harsh noises everyday. The youth of this generation have become so accustomed to loud noises such as attending concerts, using earbuds on high volume, or even blaring music in their car, that they don’t take the time to sit and think about what is really happening inside their ears as they listen, which leaves the youth of this generation at an increased risk of losing more of their hearing at a younger age than normal. 5.2 million teenagers, ages 12 to 19, are reported to have Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) in the United States alone. Decibels are a unit of measurement used to determine the intensity and the power level of sounds.  Sounds under 75 decibels are very unlikely to cause hearing problems even if it is for a prolonged period of time however, NIHL occurs from the short or long exposure to a sound that is over 85 decibels loud.

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This was a very credible and it give information about how different technology plays a role in our hearing.

"One in eight people in the United States aged 12 years or older has hearing loss in both ears, based on standard examinations"

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a normal conversation takes place at about 60 decibels, but take an average MP3 player on full volume though earbuds, it reaches up to 105 decibels and firecrackers can reach as high as 150!

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Statistics on hearing, ear infections, and deafness among both adults and children in the U.S.