Essay On Screen Time

Summary

To what extent has screen time impacted childhood obesity in Australia?

I chose ‘To what extent has screen time impacted childhood obesity in Australia?’ for my research project question. I selected this as I wanted to do something surrounding the well-being of children due to my intention to work with them. I had been hearing about the effects of screen time and childhood obesity in the news. I was intrigued by this and formed my question. The outcome was a written report.

The research processes used for the outcome were articles, surveys, interviews, multimodal, blogs, government, education and news sites, and other uncategorised online research.

Some key findings from my research were, Screen time is now the leading cause of obesity, Screen use has increased dramatically, it can actually enhance learning, Screen time and obesity detrimental to mental and physical health and monitoring and reducing screen time could reduce obesity. Word Count 150

Processes

Newspaper Articles

They were useful and easy to access which resulted in them being highly used throughout the outcome, and folio.

General Internet Research

Internet research such as blogs and unofficial sites were valid in providing a great deal of information relevant to my topic that could assist in answering the research question however, they were all generally unreliable due to many not having an author listed and the ones that did had no qualifications in either childhood obesity or screen time. Blogs can be seen as bias as many are generally based entirely on the authors point of view and opinions.

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