Last week I mentioned in the blog that youth often enjoy doing self-assessment questionnaires. Well, today it is about the fact that they — and, us, as well, appreciate a fun, competitive quiz.
I have developed The Tech Revolution Quiz To Do With Your Kids, tested it with youth, and it has been a hit. The key is to make it a competition. I suggest everyone in your family, or group of any kind (maybe a summer camp group, who knows) and have everyone have a piece of paper and pencil. Since you will also be doing the quiz, don’t read the questions yourself until everyone is ready. Then, start to read the questions and have everyone write their best guess answers—no internet searching or talking during this time. Then, have everyone discuss their answers without looking up answers — just to get brains firing on the discussions that can happen via the questions. After all the questions have been discussed, then at the bottom of the blog and read off the actual answers. People should get one point for everyone, one they got right. Do a little high five dance for the Digital Age Dynamos.
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Answer: FALSE. The brain makes up just 2% of a person’s total body weight but accounts for 20 of the body’s energy use.
Answer: Netflix
Answer: FALSE. From 2020 data, Apple is 3rd after Samsung and Huawei. Apple sells about 14% of all smartphones worldwide, Samsung sells about 22%, and Huawei about 18% — but Apple makes the most money from their smartphone sales.
Answer: True. Teens are often surprised that it is not higher than 44% when they learn of this figure. The real question is, what will it be now as people come together after COVID And device use has gone up so much.
Answer: Data from 2016 shows, the video game industry earned $30.4 billion in the US, and Hollywood movies earned $11.6 billion. Video games continue to earn much more money than Hollywood films.
Answer: Approximately 7,000 (shocking, yes!)
Answer: Brave and Inside Out ( In Finding Dory, Dory is a main character, but she is not the lead in the same way as the leads in Brave and Inside Out. The obvious follow-up questions are why so few and how to change this?
Answer: It was 33% overall. For younger teens, it was 30%, and for the older teens, it was 38%. Of note, this figure of 33% had increased from 21%, when the question was first asked, in an earlier survey in 2012.
Answer: As of March 2021, according to regulatory filings, they have 60,000. Remember, Facebook owns Instagram.
Answer: Watermelon Sugar. My question is, why that song? How do they pick these things :)
**By the way, we here at Screenagers are always on the lookout for interesting tech and culture trivia, and if you have some good ones, please let us know at info@screenagersmovie.com.
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Last week I mentioned in the blog that youth often enjoy doing self-assessment questionnaires. Well, today it is about the fact that they — and, us, as well, appreciate a fun, competitive quiz.
I have developed The Tech Revolution Quiz To Do With Your Kids, tested it with youth, and it has been a hit. The key is to make it a competition. I suggest everyone in your family, or group of any kind (maybe a summer camp group, who knows) and have everyone have a piece of paper and pencil. Since you will also be doing the quiz, don’t read the questions yourself until everyone is ready. Then, start to read the questions and have everyone write their best guess answers—no internet searching or talking during this time. Then, have everyone discuss their answers without looking up answers — just to get brains firing on the discussions that can happen via the questions. After all the questions have been discussed, then at the bottom of the blog and read off the actual answers. People should get one point for everyone, one they got right. Do a little high five dance for the Digital Age Dynamos.
Answer: FALSE. The brain makes up just 2% of a person’s total body weight but accounts for 20 of the body’s energy use.
Answer: Netflix
Answer: FALSE. From 2020 data, Apple is 3rd after Samsung and Huawei. Apple sells about 14% of all smartphones worldwide, Samsung sells about 22%, and Huawei about 18% — but Apple makes the most money from their smartphone sales.
Answer: True. Teens are often surprised that it is not higher than 44% when they learn of this figure. The real question is, what will it be now as people come together after COVID And device use has gone up so much.
Answer: Data from 2016 shows, the video game industry earned $30.4 billion in the US, and Hollywood movies earned $11.6 billion. Video games continue to earn much more money than Hollywood films.
Answer: Approximately 7,000 (shocking, yes!)
Answer: Brave and Inside Out ( In Finding Dory, Dory is a main character, but she is not the lead in the same way as the leads in Brave and Inside Out. The obvious follow-up questions are why so few and how to change this?
Answer: It was 33% overall. For younger teens, it was 30%, and for the older teens, it was 38%. Of note, this figure of 33% had increased from 21%, when the question was first asked, in an earlier survey in 2012.
Answer: As of March 2021, according to regulatory filings, they have 60,000. Remember, Facebook owns Instagram.
Answer: Watermelon Sugar. My question is, why that song? How do they pick these things :)
**By the way, we here at Screenagers are always on the lookout for interesting tech and culture trivia, and if you have some good ones, please let us know at info@screenagersmovie.com.
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Last week I mentioned in the blog that youth often enjoy doing self-assessment questionnaires. Well, today it is about the fact that they — and, us, as well, appreciate a fun, competitive quiz.
I have developed The Tech Revolution Quiz To Do With Your Kids, tested it with youth, and it has been a hit. The key is to make it a competition. I suggest everyone in your family, or group of any kind (maybe a summer camp group, who knows) and have everyone have a piece of paper and pencil. Since you will also be doing the quiz, don’t read the questions yourself until everyone is ready. Then, start to read the questions and have everyone write their best guess answers—no internet searching or talking during this time. Then, have everyone discuss their answers without looking up answers — just to get brains firing on the discussions that can happen via the questions. After all the questions have been discussed, then at the bottom of the blog and read off the actual answers. People should get one point for everyone, one they got right. Do a little high five dance for the Digital Age Dynamos.
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