Cell phones have become almost as important to American teens as the clothes they wear, according to a nationwide survey of teenagers released last week.
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A generation widely defined by mobility, today's teenagers are now making demands of their mobile devices and, in doing so, redefining what mobility will be in the future, according to a national survey, “Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged,”
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A freestyle rap video by OU freshman Joshua Jarboe was released on the Internet Tuesday afternoon. In the video, Jarboe's obscenity-laced rap talks about guns and shooting people in the head. After plenty of debate on Internet message boards and talk radio, a conclusion to the situation has been rendered. Joshua Jarboe is no longer a member of the OU football program.
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Video ad (2 min 22 sec) making the point that mobile technologies are permitting individuals to build greater senses community as well as individual empowerment
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Great article about Nortel's study and IDC White Paper on people who are hyperconnected in our society (hat tip Clarence Fisher and Darren Kuropatwa in their BLC 08 preso)
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social networking, cell phones, IM and more for parents
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A crash course for parents on teens and technology
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What kind of information technology user are you? Take the Internet Typology Test to see where you fit. (from PEW/INTERNET)
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Coolhunting is a term coined in the early 1990s referring to a new breed of marketing professionals, called coolhunters. It is their job to make observations and predictions in changes of new or existing cultural trends.
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presentation by Marion Ginopolis with the Michigan department of Ed on 6 March 2008 (linktribution: Ben Rimes and iNavis)
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The purpose of this conference is to showcase innovative uses of technology in the classroom and provide school district with ways that they can enhance their classroom curriculums and professional development programs. An overview of the research regardi
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Storytelling Alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program computers through creating short 3D animated movies.
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good overview of generational differences research related to conversations about neo-millenials, digital natives, etc
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Partnership for 21st Century skills sharing site for best practices resources
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website that evaluates the potential marketing value of social networking sites, and lets people run ads on their own myspace, facebook, blog, or other social networking websites
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a project encouraging youth to share their voices as citizen journalists
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Report on the perceived importance of 21st century skills from Oct 2007
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