Digital Media and Your Brain
Being Aware of What You Share
You Won't Believe This!
Library Stuff
Current Events
100
When we do something often it becomes this (not a fancy term).
What is habit?
100
This term refers to the trail of information you leave behind when using the internet, including search history, social media activity, and app usage.
What is a digital footprint?
100
This term refers to the desire we have to figure out missing information when we see headlines or images.
What is the Curiosity Gap?
100
This is the name of the Vermont middle school book award.
What is the Golden Dome?
100
This man is the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
Who is Donald Trump?
200
These are features or aspects of a device or app that prioritize what's good for people's lives.
What is Humane design?
200
This is what we call it when we choose to not participate in something
What is opting out?
200
This type of headline or image is designed to get you to click by making you want to learn more about something you already know.
What is clickbait?
200
Graphic novels can be accessed from these two online databases. Name one.
What is Sora and Comics Plus?
200
This man, who is the current leader of Russia, announced yesterday that he is forcing 160,000 men, aged 18-30, to join the military.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
300
One way to reduce the negative effects of addictive design is by turning off these phone alerts to limit distractions.
What are notifications?
300
These small text files are placed on your device by websites to track your online activity.
What are cookies?
300
This is the name of the crime when someone steals your personal information and pretends to be you.
What is identity theft?
300
You can freely access three newspapers from the PA Library website. You earn the points if you can name two.
What are the Burlington Free Press, New York Times, and USA Today?
300
This is Vermont's governor.
Who is Phil Scott?
400
Features or aspects of a device or app that are intended to hook the user into frequent use
What is humane design?
400
Before signing up for an app like Snapchat, users should review these two important agreements that outline data collection and user rules.
What are Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?
400
This phrase in a headline, "Go Ahead and Play that Video Game: It’s Might Actually Be Good for You," creates a knowledge gap about this common activity.
What is playing video games?
400
Library books are organized most commonly by using these two methods.
Alphabetically, by authors' last names, and by genre (and Dewey Decimal system).
400
Currently, these three people represent Vermont in Washington, DC. They are one representative and two senators.
Who are Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch, and Becca Balint?
500
When you post a picture and receive likes and comments, your brain releases dopamine, reinforcing this cycle (loop).
What is the feedback loop?
500
If you want to limit how much websites track your online activity, you can adjust these settings in your browser.
What are privacy settings?
500
These are messages or photos that are made to persuade someone to buy a certain product.
What is advertising?
500
You can find the school library website in Schoology. You can also access the website here.
What are Clever, the PAML and the PA websites?
500
This New Jersey Senator filibustered for over 24 hours from Monday until Tuesday.
Who is Senator Cory Booker?