Blog Post Title: Current Events Term 1

Current Events Term 1

In Current Events I covered these topics:

• The design of the Halswell Skate Park and I made a submission to the council.
• Donald Trump’s Refugee Plan
• Christchurch Earth Memorial
• The new Ngā Puna Wai Sports Facility
• The Red Zone and Avon River Regeneration Plan with a submission to the council.

My favourite topic was...The design of the Halswell Skate Park and I made a submission to the council.because…i recon it would be cool having a skate park close to me

Here is a link to my learning on the Red Zone and Avon River Regeneration Plan.

The Reading National Standards I have achieved are (delete the ones that are not relevant)Year 7 and 8

• Identifying and resolving issues that come from competing information in texts
  gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing information across a small range of texts
• I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

maths assessment task

Evaluate statements made by others about the findings of statistical investigations and probability activities.

In the newspaper article, ‘Which Social Media for Teens?’, it was reported that young people are using different forms of social media than they did a few years ago.

Read the article below and comment on whether the reporter’s statements are consistent with the survey data.

Which Social Media for Teens?

It looks like Facebook is no longer cool amongst the teens of today.  Instagram and Twitter have taken over the most popular social networks among American children and these kids are ditching Facebook.

Research has shown that today’s teens are no longer using Facebook. Rather, they are using Instagram and Twitter. There has been a steady decline in the usage of Facebook, with all other social networks increasing in popularity. Surveys of 15,000 social network users between the ages of 13 and 19 over the past three years, gave the following results:

Source: This article has been created for the purpose of this statistics exercise and is not from any publication.it is consistent because facebook went down every year and the others raised by a bit a year