Yesterday I talked about a 2008 report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education called Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media (go to Monday’s post to download the article in its entirety). The authors identified five key issues in regards to the topic:
identity
privacy
ownership and authorship
credibility
participation
This report worked to provide a balanced perspective on [...]
I have recently been drawn into a conversation about teenagers, sexuality, and online activities on a massive e-mail group. The conversation was started by a father posting a link to this Daily Mail article about the excessive promiscuity and online sexual activity teenagers are regularly engaging in. I was unimpressed by the article - and [...]
Here’s the thing about media images: they live in us. The dramatic nature of the impact of visual images, particularly those in motion, on our psyches is hard to describe to people who watch a lot of media. It is understood naturally by people who have spent times of their adult lives without much interaction [...]
Yesterday - as with most days - I had more on my schedule than I could realistically get done. About midday, as I was triaging, I noticed that there was a new link to my blog somewhere out there in the Internetz. Generally I try and click through to anyone that’s linked to my blog [...]
Happy Friday!
I had a serious post in the works that went back to Wednesday’s post about The Hurried Child, addressing Dr. Elkind’s assertion that middle school and even early high school is too young for sex education and that a class is an inappropriate place for sex education to be taking place. But it’s Friday [...]
