a field guide to digital natives
TRANSCRIPT
Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV).
From a poster spotted in my suburban town:
What your teens don’t want you to know about:
• Drugs• Sex• Facebook• MySpace• The choking game
There, in my own realm, I could be, say, and
think whatever I pleased… I felt accepted for who I was, and what I saw myself to
be.
• Fast-paced• Multitasking/Multimedia• Non-linear• Constantly connected• Social• Discovery-oriented• “Fame?”