https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh en-us 2023-01-13 00:50:58 UTC 2023-01-19 22:26:41 UTC hello@padlet.com sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443017350 This article is from the National Health Institute, and is on physical health & wellness. Throughout this article it explains how studies are finding that video gaming is associated with better cognitive performance in children, according to recent tests. The article begins by explaining a recent study involving 2000 children in which they found that children who play video games for 3-4 hours a day, performed better on cognitive tests. Specifically, these cognitive tests focused on skills involving impulse control and working memory. These results were in comparison to children who did not play 3-4 hours of video games each day. This study also found that the two groups of children had very different brain activity. After MRI brain screening, the article explains, "those children who played at least three hours of video games per day showed more brain activity in frontal brain regions that are associated with more cognitively demanding tasks and lesson brain activity in brain regions related to vision". This is important for teachers to know, and be aware of due to many other studies stating that video games often hurt mental health.



U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, October 24). Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/10/video-gaming-may-be-associated-with-better-cognitive-performance-in-children 


]]> 2023-01-13 01:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443017350 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443030524 This article is from New York Times, and relates to trauma. Throughout the article it talks about the recent killings that took place at the University of Idaho college campus. The article explains what happened, as well as the victims who lost their lives. We learn through the article how different life is now at this college campus. Many students refused to return to campus after this, and the article explained that many classrooms sit empty. Many college students at the University of Idaho now have defense items such as pepper spray, have been putting rods in their windows to lock them, and have been buying security cameras for outside their homes. This is important to be aware of, because it shows the direct connection to trauma and horrible situations. We see that after this college town dealt with these murders, it has causes everyone on the campus to now act differently.

Bogel-burroughs, N. (2022, December 3). Killings left an Idaho College Town Shaken. The New York Times. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/us/idaho-university-moscow-killings.html  ]]> 2023-01-13 01:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443030524 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443903489 This article is from ABC 6 Philadelphia, and goes along with safety. The article explained a 13-year-old boy in Texas was riding bikes with his friends, when he decided he wanted to go home. When we began his trek home, he noticed that a car began following him. Out of fear, instead of riding all the way home, he decided to go to a friends home where he had to hide outside due to no answer at the door. Due to his quick response to hide, and not go all the way home the car quickly stopped following him. This is important because while at school students should be learning safety mechanisms to take when you may feel unsafe. It is also important to be aware of your surroundings. It is important for parents to teach kids about what to do in these situations where they have to act quickly.

Teen manages to escape vehicle that followed him to friend's house: 'the car was just there'. 6abc Philadelphia. (2023, January 13). Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://6abc.com/teen-followed-13-year-old-escapes-car-katy-tx-stranger-follows-teenager/12697564/ ]]> 2023-01-13 18:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443903489 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443918675 This article is from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and is about mental health. The article specifically talks about how social connections, sleep, and physical activity is associated with mental health in youth specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study looked at 3,000 adolescents within the ages of 11-14. During the COVID-19 pandemic it affected children within this age range because it is during a time when they are changing a ton physically, emotionally, and socially and the pandemic truly disrupted these stages of life. In summary the people within the study, as well as their parents did an assessment in February 2020, which documented some problems such as anxiety, sleep problems, eating habits, etc. They then did three more surveys a few months later. Out of all the surveys/responses they found that positive variables such as talking to parents, family activities, and other healthy behaviors are all connected to protecting the child against anxieties, and depression. The study also found that specifically girls, and those who entered the pandemic with mental heath difficulties, appeared to be vulnerable to the negative sides of the pandemic. This is important for teachers to be aware of because these students who were of this age during the pandemic may be drawn to more mental health issues, which schools can help with!

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, July 29). Social connectedness, sleep, and physical activity associated with better mental health among youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/01/social-connectedness-sleep-and-physical-activity-associated-with-better-mental-health-among-youth-during-the-covid-19-pandemic ]]> 2023-01-13 18:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443918675 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443931266 This article is form the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and is about preventing alcohol/drug use. Marijuana and hallucinogen use of young adults between the ages of 19-30 years old, is at an all time high compared to 5 and 10 years ago. This caused us to reach all time highs within this age range from 1988. This article also includes information about alcohol use, in which it states alcohol specifically is the most used substance, and through the pandemic the amount of binge drinkers has improved greatly. The article goes into talking more about hallucinogens in which 8% of young adults reported hallucinogen use, and specifically they are using ecstasy. Vaping was also mentioned int his article in which it still remains a "trend" and the amount of people vaping increased to 16% of young adults. It is evident that the amount of people turning to drugs and alcohol is growing. Scientists, and doctors stated in this article that there are still tests, and research being done about how this will affect people long term. This is important because children should learn from a young age how bad these substances are, and how there are so many other things to turn to in means to cope with things. Students in schools should/need to be learning about this from a young age to be educated about these substances affects. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, October 28). Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all time-high in 2021. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/08/marijuana-and-hallucinogen-use-among-young-adults-reached-all-time-high-in-2021 

]]> 2023-01-13 18:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2443931266 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444535759 This article is from NBC News, and has to do with gender & sexual identity. Over 100 bills that go against LGBTQ rights, including transgender rights, have been filed in about 22 states. Over the course of the past three years more than 18 states have banned transgender student athletes from participating on sports teams that align with their gender identity, rather the sex that they were assigned at birth. Lawmakers in about 3 different states have made laws to prohibit transgender females from playing on female sports teams. As the article explains these shifts in human rights are very scary, and affect many people throughout the world. In the state of Oklahoma they have a proposal going that would prohibit transition-related care for anyone under the age of 26, as well as prohibit Medicaid from helping cover this care. This is important for teachers to be aware of because teachers, and school should support families apart of the LGBTQ community, as well as teach students from a young age about these differences to cause students to grow up supporting those different from them. 

NBCUniversal News Group. (n.d.). With over 100 anti-LGBTQ bills before state legislatures in 2023 so far, activists say they're 'fired up'. NBCNews.com. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/100-anti-lgbtq-bills-state-legislatures-2023-far-activists-say-fired-rcna65349 ]]> 2023-01-15 01:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444535759 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444537889 This article is from the CDC, and goes along with personal health and wellness. The article begins with explaining how the number of people under 20 with diabetes in the US will probably increase. Researchers guess that this trend might lead to as many as 220,000 people having type 2 diabetes in 2060, and people with type 1 diabetes could increase by 65% in the next 40 years. Type 1 diabetes is still the most common in US youth, but type 2 has increased in specifically young people in the last 2 decades. The article also explains how people with diabetes are at a higher risk factor for other health difficulties such as heart disease, stokes, diabetes complications, and premature death. This is important for students to learn, as well as other health factors that may impact them. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022, December 29). Future surge in diabetes could dramatically impact people under 20 in U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p1229-future-diabetes-surge.html ]]> 2023-01-15 01:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444537889 sydneytorresson https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444540019 This article is from the National Institute on drug abuse, and has to do with preventing alcohol/drug use. The article begins by explaining how prenatal cannabis exposure following the middle and first trimester is associated with attention, social, and behavioral problems that affect children even into 11-12 years of life. The conditions put children at risk for mental health disorders and substance use in late adolescence. Cannabis use in pregnant women increased from 3% in 2002, to 7% in 2017. This is important for parents to be aware of so they do not use drugs when pregnant. This is also important for students to learn so when they get older they know the affect that substance has when it is carried into later years, especially when they are pregnant. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, September 12). Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/09/prenatal-cannabis-exposure-associated-with-mental-disorders-in-children-that-persist-into-early-adolescence ]]> 2023-01-15 01:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sydneytorresson/hdfopjktsogqp7mh/wish/2444540019