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01-15-2010, 09:01 PM
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Frontline interviews kids, parents and educators about the increasingly mediated experiences of youth, how they affect home life, identity, and education, and how kids' online lives often spin out of their control. Adolescence is playing out, often simultaneously, in the physical world as well as the "always on" digital world of social networking web sites like Myspace and Facebook. Kids are extending their social world into an area without the adult order and supervision of their home, community and school environments. This often presents complex versions of classic issues (like bullying, a.k.a. "cyberbullying") that kids, parents, and schools are having a hard time understanding and adapting to.
Particularly relevant to the work of The Media Spot is the chapter on "revolutions in the classroom", where teachers explain that some established ways of teaching are losing relevance with today's students. Some are adjusting through technology integration and developing new strategies and perspectives on old subjects, whereothers are fighting to hold onto traditional curricula and instructional methods.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/
Frontline interviews kids, parents and educators about the increasingly mediated experiences of youth, how they affect home life, identity, and education, and how kids' online lives often spin out of their control. Adolescence is playing out, often simultaneously, in the physical world as well as the "always on" digital world of social networking web sites like Myspace and Facebook. Kids are extending their social world into an area without the adult order and supervision of their home, community and school environments. This often presents complex versions of classic issues (like bullying, a.k.a. "cyberbullying") that kids, parents, and schools are having a hard time understanding and adapting to.
Particularly relevant to the work of The Media Spot is the chapter on "revolutions in the classroom", where teachers explain that some established ways of teaching are losing relevance with today's students. Some are adjusting through technology integration and developing new strategies and perspectives on old subjects, whereothers are fighting to hold onto traditional curricula and instructional methods.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/