Youth and media pp final edit

Youth & The Media

• Youth – Under 18 years old but focused on middle and high schoolers

• Media – including forms of interpersonal communication (cell phones, email, etc.) and mass media (Books, TV, Movies, Internet, etc.)

• Technology-Electronic or digital products and

systems considered as a group (dictionary.com)

Media and Technology in Youth Education

Technology in the Classroom1920s: educational radio broadcasts in the classroom1930s: films (silent and sound) introduced1940s: television, greater access to film and radio1950s: instructional TV programs increase-- some even

replace teachers1960s-70s: use of television declines1980s: invention of the computer, adoption into classroom

1990s-Today…

Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920 (Larry Cuban).

Presented by Bridget Danish and Faisal Sheikh

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Current Technologies in Education

Interactive Whiteboard



Electronic Copyboard



Educational Software-Learning via ComputersGrade School Programs

-Online ResourcesStudy Help Virtual Classrooms




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Camera-Based Equipment

http://www.apple.com/education/teachers-professors/resources/early-learning.html

http://quizlet.com/

http://library.blackboard.com/docs/r6/6_1/student/bbls_r6_1_student/_virtual_classroom.htm

http://www.acm.org/uist/archive/videos/1999/p113-siio.mov

How Can Technology Help Students?

• Knowledge webs will complement teachers, texts, libraries, and archives as sources of information;

• interactions in virtual communities will complement face-to-face relationships in classrooms;

• experiences in synthetic environments will extend learning-by-doing in real world settings; and

• Sensory immersion will help learners grasp reality through illusion.

» (Dr. Chris Dede, New Horizons)

Through these technologies…


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New or Just a New Way of Doing It?

• Consider…



…The technologies mentioned earlier:Interactive whiteboard, copyboard,Projector, microscope, mouse



…Online Homeschooling



http://www.time4learning.com/homeschool/freelessons.htm

http://www.time4learning.com/homeschool/freelessons.htm

Social Networking “If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist” – Skyler, 18, to her mom

“I'm in the 7th grade. I'm 13. I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not the president of thestudent body. Or captain of the debate team. I'm not the prettiest girl in my class.I'm not the most popular girl in my class. I'm just a kid. I'm a little shy. And it'sreally hard in this school to impress people enough to be your friend if you're not anyof those things. But I go on these really great vacations with my parents betweenChristmas and New Year's every year. And I take pictures of places we go. And Iwrite about those places. And I post this on my Xanga. Because I think if kids inschool read what I have to say and how I say it, they'll want to be my friend.” –Vivien, 13, to Parry Aftab during a “Teen Angels” meeting

•What is social networking? How do these sites work?

-Facebook-Myspace-Linkedln-Twitter-Second Life-bebo-Friendster-Xanga

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

•The ‘MySpace generation’

- Disenfranchised teens- Conscientious objectors

• The appeal of social networking sites- Music- Friends- Entertainment

•Safety and Privacy

•The future of SNS

•Who isn’t using it?

The dangers of youth and media

http://www.minortroubles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/teenfight.jpg

Cyber bullying

• 65% of their students between 8-14 have been involved directly or indirectly in a cyber bullying incident as the cyber bully, victim or friend

“When the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.“

•Megan Meier •Ryan Halligan•Olivia Garnder

Violence on Youtube

• 8 teenagers video a brutal beating to post online.

• A search for “teenage fighting” brings up 7,210 results.

• Are kids fighting more? Are they just doing it differently? If you prevented them from posting things on the internet, would it stop them from fighting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDc05MpfpQ4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDc05MpfpQ4&feature=related

The problem with technology…

• Provides anonymity / it feels like a “safe world” without consequences

• Indirect form of bullying• Information spreads much faster and is put

into the hands of masses

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Media Effects and Youth

ViolenceSexually Explicit ContentDrug & Alcohol UseBody ImageStereotyping

http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html

Who Regulates the Media?

Who regulates the media? • Federal Communications Commission

• Federal Trade Commission

• Self-Regulation by Companies

• Independent Grassroots Groups

http://www.parentstv.org/

Media Regulation

Media Ethics

Who’s responsibility is it to ensure the safety of youth when it comes to media exposure?

Ways to Combat Negative Media Effects Without Overt Regulation

• Educating Youth in Media Literacy

• Parent-Child Interaction

• Moderation of media consumption

References:• www.delicious.com/carolyn.grant2

• www.delicious.com/aatkins2

• www.delicious.com/pandagriffin

• www.delicious.com/mbreeland

• www.delicious.com/dschmitt89

http://www.delicious.com/carolyn.grant2

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