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What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
Shaina LamhutErin WilsonSteven Hultgren
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“Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic
that the internet is melting their
brains.”~Amy
Goldwasser
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The Internet is a positive tool for
adolescents!1. Communicating
a) Personalb) Mass
2. Research
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Communicating
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E-MailKeep in touch with family members
Advertisements
Send files to professors, co-workers, friends, etc.
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Blogs
Connecting with others who share the same interests Free Writing
Sharing Ideas
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Blogging about current events
Blogging about personal lives
Used for political updates
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Used for interacting with friends/family
Sharing photographs
Sharing personal interests
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Instant Messaging
Immediate contact
Private chatting with Friends/Family/Professors
Conference chatting
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AdvertisementCompanies profit from online
advertisements
Online shopping
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EducationOnline Courses
WebCt
Wiggio
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Research
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“Twenty-plus years ago, high school students didn’t have the internet to store their trivia. Now they know that the specific dates and what-was-that-prince’s-name will always be there; they can free their brains to go a little deeper into the concepts instead of the copyrights.”
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Online Encyclopedias
Wikipedia
Brittanica
Music encyclopedias
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Online News Forums
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Online Search Engines
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Who Disagrees?
The Older Generation
National Endowment for the Arts
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Older Generation
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“The internet, according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters, or perhaps pens), has “seduced a whole generation into its inanities.”
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“The average teen chooses to spend an average of 16.7 hours a week reading and writing online. Yet the NEA report did not find this to be voluntary reading and writing. Its findings also concluded that ‘literary reading declined significantlyIn a period of rising internet use.’”
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The Internet is a positive tool in today’s society. There are those who say “Nay” but we say “Yay”!
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Works CitedFacebook.comTwitter.comMsn.comCnn.comThey Say/ I Say by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel DurstBoston.comGoogle.comWikipedia.orgSalemstate.eduBrittanica.orgNEA.comAskJeeves.com