13 Things to Know About Teens and Technology. (2014, July 23). Retrieved November 18, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/23/13-things-to-know-about-teens-and-technology/
1. There is no playbook for this environment. This is a new frontier for many parents and educators. Technology is always changing.
2. No cure for making teens do what we want. This includes online contacts and activities.
3. Teens are not aliens they are just tech savvy.
4. Teens have tech saturated lives. 95% use the Internet and 78% of them have cell phones.
5.. They are linked in and connected online.
6. Information is a third skin.
7. Teens have a new attention layer: continuous, partial.
8. Teens have a fifth lobe.
9.Teens participate in the fifth estate.
10. There is a Yin and a Yang story when it comes to the way this affects teen research. For example, teachers say 77% have a positive impact on classwork while 87% say technology creates distractions. 76% of teachers say technology enables students to access wider amounts of information and 76% says it conditions students to expect information to be available quickly and easily. 65% of teachers say the Internet makes students self sufficient while 83% says the Internet is overwhelming.
Learning has changed. The old way was a learning transaction which was objective and certain. Learners received knowledge. We learned by watching and listening. The new way is a learning process which is subjective and provisional. The learners create knowledge. We learn by doing.
Teens today are wired differently. Hence, they learn differently. The multi-task and work to solve applicable issues. They collect information from the Internet. This creates a positive outcome. Or maybe teens today are wired differently but lack deep thinking and always on devices. This would be a negative outcome.
11. They are super taskers.
12. The are new winners/losers.
13. Distracted are toast.
Media Zones
1. Stacks
2. Signals
3. Snacks
4. Streams
5. Socials
6. Synthesized Spaces
I never knew about the media zones. This makes perfect sense. This is good to know and help develop students. This is almost a cheat sheet to engage students and help them perform at their best.
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Media Zones are an interesting way to break out the different ways people are using media. Someone asked me where I get my news from recently, and I realize I rely on Twitter for a lot of it. That's different. Ten years ago it would have been a local radio station, even their website, or online or in paper newspapers. And that's just my experience!
ReplyDeleteI agree, I had never heard of media zones either. I liked that break down though, it makes you more aware of what you are doing on the internet (using it wisely or wasting your time).
ReplyDeleteI agree, I had never heard of media zones either. I liked that break down though, it makes you more aware of what you are doing on the internet (using it wisely or wasting your time).
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