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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I am still amazed that I can go to any television network website and watch TV series online. I’m amazed I can login to my Netflix account and watch movies. I’m amazed that I can watch almost any video I could ever dream of watching on YouTube. I’m amazed I can download music from my computer and put it on a player that I can take with me. I’m amazed I can share my pictures with family and friends within minutes of taking them.
A little history of my internet life:
I’ve been “online” since 1993. I started out on a 1200 bps modem and the BBS. In about 1995, the “internet” came around and I dialed in with my GEnie account at around $18 bucks an hour. It was really hard to explain to my friends what the hell it was I did on my computer, but once AOL started sending out free CD’s, they all understood.
15 years…15 short years and all this has happened. Even my parents are online. I can’t even imagine what kind of things my children will be able to do with their computers when they are my age. What do you think we’ll be doing with our computers in 15 years?
Tell me your story of computers and the internet.
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