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30 Mar 08
Ryan BretagAdvice to parents: Give your kids their (My)space
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29 Mar 08
Vicki DavisThis is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.
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Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have grown up with the Internet, not to mention cellphones. In Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation (Palgrave Macmillan), he helps parents understand social networks. His advice: Talk to your kids, learn the technology and don't panic. USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum spoke with the author.
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They're very self-motivated.
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This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse.
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This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and teen years and young adult years
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Because they have a combination of people they know face-to-face in the real world and people they don't, (those of the Net generation) get a lot of chances to bounce ideas and to test out things on a social network that they probably wouldn't do face-to-face.
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