If you’re a parent of children who go online daily, this is one show you are not going to want to miss. It’s called Growing Up Online and you can see it tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS

It touches on the tweens and teens that have spent almost their entire lives on the internet. Some have created new identities that even their friends don’t know about, not to mention their parents. I think I’m on the ball when it comes to my teenage sons and their online world. Maybe this show will open my eyes to things I don’t even know about.

At school, teachers are trying to figure out how to reach a generation that no longer reads books or newspapers. “We can’t possibly expect the learner of today to be engrossed by someone who speaks in a monotone voice with a piece of chalk in their hand,” one school principal says. “We almost have to be entertainers,” a longtime history teacher tells FRONTLINE. “If you look at the advertising world and the media world that they live in, they consume so much media. We have to cut through that cloud of information around them, cut through that media and capture their attention.”

Growing Up Online, PBS, FRONTLINE, Rachel Dretzin, John Maggio

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