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The Bamboo Project Blog: Forget the Kids--It's the Adults Online Who Need Critical Thinking Skills
Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter.
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If anyone needs training in critical thinking on the Internet, it's the adults who are still living in a world where media is something they consume unquestioningly because they've never had the experience of making it themselves. It's the adults who were raised on "authorities" and "experts," in a monocultural world where many subcultures remained hidden from view and therefore assumptions about "truth" and "fact" were not questioned.
Our young people, on the other hand, are growing up in a world that's more transparent, where the web of links that we're developing helps them find the more complicated "truths" that underlie what we've always seen as "fact." Young people are the ones who see that transparency is the new objectivity because they have grown up Googling their way to source documents and "smoking guns." They relish disproving and questioning facts, like young people always have, but for once, they actually have tools at their finger tips that allow them to do it easily and at will.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
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When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
Internet generation leave parents behind | Media | The Guardian
The report is based on an annual survey, now into its 15th year, of 1,800 children at 92 schools across the country. "This year has seen a major boost to the intensity and the independence with which children approach online activities," the report says.
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The report is based on an annual survey, now into its 15th year, of 1,800 children at 92 schools across the country. "This year has seen a major boost to the intensity and the independence with which children approach online activities," the report says.
The Web and the Classroom | 21st Century Connections
"What will be taught and learned; how it will be taught and learned; who will make the use of schooling; and the position of the school in society - all of this will change greatly during ensuing decades. Indeed, no other institution faces changes as radical as those that will transform the school"
- Peter Drucker in "Post - Capitalist Society"
Society hard-wired for a fall | The Australian
"People in Australia just get on with it and if they believe in things, they get them done, so things can go from a standing start in a way that they don't here. After you spend time (in Australia), the lack of enthusiasm back here for new ideas can be like a wet flannel in the face and I do speak from experience because I have been so many times to Australia."
So Young, and So Gadgeted - NYTimes.com
EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?
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EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?
Schoolboy spares NASA's blushes
A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth after spotting the boffins had miscalculated, a German newspaper reported.
Generation Gap? 'Online Gap' Widens Divide Between Parents and Children
Parents should not disregard the advantages of the Internet: "We tend to forget that it offers our children a source of independence, a way to explore the world, and helps them meet friends whom they could not meet in their real world.
YouTube - iPhone tutorial from a two-year-old
Text messaging, watching video, looking at pictures, using YouTube, writing notes, or using the calendar feature...she covers it all.
Weblogg-ed » Pocket Texting and Open Phone Tests
From the “So What Do We Do About This?” Department comes a story about the tech savvyness of one 14-year old South Korean youngster who is making his phone play an important part in his education.
Digital Nativism, Digital Delusions and Digital Deprivation.
Being born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
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