What’s the Matter with Kids Today?

Shaina LamhutErin WilsonSteven Hultgren

“Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic

that the internet is melting their

brains.”~Amy

Goldwasser

The Internet is a positive tool for

adolescents!1. Communicating

a) Personalb) Mass

2. Research

Communicating

E-MailKeep in touch with family members

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Send files to professors, co-workers, friends, etc.

Blogs

Connecting with others who share the same interests Free Writing

Sharing Ideas

Blogging about current events

Blogging about personal lives

Used for political updates

Used for interacting with friends/family

Sharing photographs

Sharing personal interests

Instant Messaging

Immediate contact

Private chatting with Friends/Family/Professors

Conference chatting

AdvertisementCompanies profit from online

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Online shopping

EducationOnline Courses

WebCt

Wiggio

Research

“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.”

Online Encyclopedias

Wikipedia

Brittanica

Music encyclopedias

Online News Forums

Online Search Engines

Who Disagrees?

The Older Generation

National Endowment for the Arts

Older Generation

“The internet, according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters, or perhaps pens), has “seduced a whole generation into its inanities.”

“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.’”

The Internet is a positive tool in today’s society. There are those who say “Nay” but we say “Yay”!

Works CitedFacebook.comTwitter.comMsn.comCnn.comThey Say/ I Say by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel DurstBoston.comGoogle.comWikipedia.orgSalemstate.eduBrittanica.orgNEA.comAskJeeves.com