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Google's CEO on Teenagers and the Future of the Web
In this interview with Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, we learn what he thinks about the future of the internet and how teenagers will consume media. Schmidt thinks that Chinese-language content will dominate the web. He also says to look at how teenagers consume content today. He says they easily move from one application to the next with relative ease. He then reminds us that today's teenagers are tomorrow's employees.
Schmidt thinks in 5 years their will be no distinction between TV, radio, and the web. If what Schmidt says materializes how will this effect education. I have said in many posts on the blog that I believe smartphone growth will continue to expand exponentially and this will impact how schools use technology. If a student has a smartphone today he has unlimited access to data, video, radio, and all other forms of information without ever accessing the school network. How this will all look in 5 years is impossible to imagine. Schools need to prepare for the wave of mobile access that is hitting our educational shores now and will only increase in intensity each year. Below is a video of a portion of the interview with Eric Schmidt.
School encourages pupils to lie-in
Video from the BBC on why it might be better to let teenagers lie-in and start school later - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8356166.stm
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Signs That Your Teen Needs Money Management Help
If you teen went off to college tomorrow, how soon would they call you asking for money? Would they be able to purchase their own groceries by the end of the month? Would they end up moving back into your basement when they cannot afford their apartment any longer? The...money-> cards-> techniques-> teens-> help-> teenager
Signs That Your Teen Needs Money Management Help If you teen went off to college tomorrow, how soon would they call you asking for money? Would they be able to purchase their own groceries by the end of the month? Would they end up moving back into your basement when they cannot afford their apartment any longer? The...
Teach Your Kids about Money Management It is never too early to teach your children the basics when it comes to good money management. Teaching your children good habits is always wise, and money management is definitely a set of good habits that is better taught sooner instead of later. If you teach your children how...
Money Management Questions and Answers How can money management techniques be applied to my life? - The first step is to realize that you could possibly have an overspending problem. This is the number one reason why people get over their head financially. You can easily consult with a money management counselor that will help...
Money Management During Tough Financial Times Personal money management can absolutely be a challenge, especially when you are tight on cash. Payday never seems to come in time, and your pockets probably feel empty long before the bills have all being paid up. Here are some basic but essential tips for money management that can help...
Learning the Basics of Money Management For many people, the prospect of money management is just too much to handle. Nobody really enjoys being a bean counter, and if you're spending too much and having a good time doing it, money management may be the farthest thing from your mind. However, given the state of the...- Money Management Techniques "Successful traders have a larger edge and better money management than unsuccessful traders. Unlike popular belief however, this study shows that the smaller edge of successful traders is not the cause of their failure. Traders' failures can be explained almost exclusively by their poor money management practices." - Fernando...
- 7 Reasons Why Do We Blog Did you ever ask yourself, why do you blog, or why do you have to? Nowadays on Internet there are more than 70 millions blogs, and it is interesting what purposes do they pursue? Until recently, to make money online was not easy for usual people like we....
- Making Money Online With Affiliate Marketing- The Right Way Of Making Money Online With Affiliate Marketing Making money online with the affiliate marketing has been made far easier than that it used to be a few time ago. Now there are new and new programs that now only help you getting easy sales but also insure you instant transfer of money into your accounts.As mentioned above,...
Making a Killing, or Getting Killed in the Markets? I hear the same story over and over ... "I was making money, slowly and gradually increasing my trading account, and then I lost all my winnings on one or two trades." Ever heard that? Ever done that? There are ways to protect yourself from this common trading problem. Some...
Teach your Teens to Save Money Teaching your children how to manage their finances is absolutely critical if you want them to be successful at managing their money in the future. More than 80 percent of all parents are led to believe that their children are learning enough about personal finance and money management in school,...
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Teen Sex | Cory Doctorow
My first young adult novel, Little Brother, tells the story of a kid named Marcus Yallow who forms a guerilla army of young people dedicated to the reformation of the US government by any means necessary. He and his friends use cryptography and other technology to subvert security measures, to distribute revolutionary literature, to liberate and publish secret governmental memoes, and humiliate government officials. Every chapter includes some kind of how-to guide for accomplishing this kind of thing on your own, from tips on disabling radio-frequency ID tags to beating biometric identity system to defeating the censorware used by your school network to control what kind of things you can and can't see on the Internet. The book is a long hymn to personal liberty, free speech, the people's right to question and even overthrow their government, even during wartime.
Marcus is 17, and the book is intended to be read by young teens or even precocious tweens (as well as adults). Naturally, I anticipated that some of the politics and technology in the story would upset my readers. And it's true, a few of the reviewers were critical of this stuff. But not many, not overly so.What I didn't expect was that I would receive a torrent of correspondence and entreaties from teachers, students, parents, and librarians who were angry, worried, or upset that Marcus loses his virginity about two-thirds of the way through the book (secondarily, some of them were also offended by the fact that Marcus drinks a beer at one point, and a smaller minority wanted to know why and how Marcus could get away with talking back to his elders).Now, the sex-scene in the book is anything but explicit. Marcus and his girlfriend are kissing alone in her room after a climactic scene in the novel, and she hands him a condom. The scene ends. The next scene opens with Marcus reflecting that it wasn't what he thought it would be, but it was still very good, and better in some ways that he'd expected. He and his girlfriend have been together for quite some time at this point, and there's every indication that they'll go on being together for some time yet. There is no anatomy, no grunts or squeals, no smells or tastes. This isn't there to titillate. It's there because it makes plot-sense and story-sense and character-sense for these two characters to do this deed at this time.I've spent enough time explaining what this "plot-sense and story-sense and character-sense" means to enough people that I find myself creating a "Teen transgression in YA literature FAQ."There's really only one question: "Why have your characters done something that is likely to upset their parents, and why don't you punish them for doing this?"Now, the answer.First, because teenagers have sex and drink beer, and most of the time the worst thing that results from this is a few days of social awkwardness and a hangover, respectively. When I was a teenager, I drank sometimes. I had sex sometimes. I disobeyed authority figures sometimes.Mostly, it was OK. Sometimes it was bad. Sometimes it was wonderful. Once or twice, it was terrible. And it was thus for everyone I knew. Teenagers take risks, even stupid risks, at times. But the chance on any given night that sneaking a beer will destroy your life is damned slim. Art isn't exactly like life, and science fiction asks the reader to accept the impossible, but unless your book is about a universe in which disapproving parents have cooked the physics so that every act of disobedience leads swiftly to destruction, it won't be very credible. The pathos that parents would like to see here become bathos: mawkish and
trivial, heavy-handed, and preachy.Second, because it is good art. Artists have included sex and sexual content in their general-audience material since cave-painting days. There's a reason the Vatican and the Louvre are full of nudes. Sex is part of what it means to be human, so art has sex in it.Sex in YA stories usually comes naturally, as the literal climax of a coming-of-age story in which the adolescent characters have undertaken a series of leaps of faiths, doing consequential things (lying, telling the truth, being noble, subverting authority, etc.) for the first time, never knowing, really knowing, what the outcome will be. These figurative losses of virginity are one of the major themes of YA novels — and one of the major themes of adolescence — so it's artistically satisfying for the figurative to become literal in the course of the book. This is a common literary and artistic technique, and it's very effective.I admit that I remain baffled by adults who object to the sex in this book. Not because it's prudish to object, but because the off-camera sex occurs in the middle of a story that features rioting, graphic torture, and detailed instructions for successful truancy.As the parent of a young daughter, I feel strongly that every parent has the right and responsibility to decide how his or her kids are exposed to sex and sexually explicit material.However, that right is limited by reality: the likelihood that a high-school student has made it to her 14th or 15th year without encountering the facts of life is pretty low. What's more, a kid who enters puberty without understanding the biological and emotional facts about her or his anatomy and what it's for is going to be (even more) confused.Adolescents think about sex. All the time. Many of them have sex. Many of them experiment with sex. I don't believe that a fictional depiction of two young people who are in love and have sex is likely to impart any new knowledge to most teens — that is, the vast majority of teenagers are apt to be familiar with the existence of sexual liaisons between 17-year-olds.So since the reader isn't apt to discover anything new about sex in reading the book I can't see how this ends up interfering with a parent's right to decide when and where their kids discover the existence of sex.
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Young People Tweeting More and More - eMarketer
via emarketer.com
Status update services catch on with Gen Y were more likely to tweet than users ages 30 to 49, who had previously been considered the core group for Twitter.
Status updaters were more likely to belong to other social networks in addition to Twitter, and users with multiple Internet-connected devices participated in services such as Twitter at a higher rate.
Txt 4 Help
The Safe Place Organization has a new initiative called Txt 4 Help. Below is a clip from their website.
Here is how it works:
Youth in crisis can text the word SAFE and their current location to the number 69866 and they will receive an address of the nearest Safe Place site and contact number for the local youth shelter. In cities that don't have a Safe Place program, the youth will receive the name and number of the youth shelter or, if there is no local shelter, a national-hotline number.
Safe Place provides access to immediate help and supportive resources for all young people in crisis through a network of sites sustained by qualified agencies, trained volunteers and businesses.
I think this is a good idea. It is meeting kids on their turf. Today's teenagers live in the world of text. Follow the link above for more information on the program.
BBC - dot.life: Steve Jobs: Teenage hero?
You would think most 12-17 year-olds would be getting hot under the collar over the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus. Not so.
It seems the wayward youth of today has given that honour to a golden oldie - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
A survey by Junior Achievement, an organisation that educates students on matters related to future employment, found that the Apple boss is the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers.
Of the 1,000 teens questioned, 35% gave Mr Jobs the thumbs up followed by 25% for Oprah, 16% for skateboarder Tony Hawk and a dismal 10% for twenty-something Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The Olsen twins came further down the pecking order, as did fashion model Kimora Lee Simmons with 4%.
Of the people who choose Mr Jobs, 61% cited him because "he made a difference in/improved people's lives or made the world a better place."
Testament to the power of shiny gadgets like the iPod and the iPhone for you.
"We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, so it's no surprise that teens admire famous entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey who have built brands around their personas as well as around their products," said Jack Kosakowski, president of Junior Achievement USA.
Still, it is interesting to see a tech titan like Mr Jobs leap ahead of Oprah - which might mean that a lot of youngsters are truly interested in science and technology as a career and not TV fame.
via bbc.co.uk
Highly encouraging in one way - shiny new gadgets win out over celeb froth :-)
College Kids Are the Digital Demo - eMarketer
via emarketer.com
College students remain the single most connected demographic group in the US. In 2009, 95.7% of them will go online at least once a month.
In less than 3 years college student frequency using social networking sites has doubled. Maybe we can consider the growth of the devices from which they get connected.
Good-bye Twitter
via youtube.com
Why Miley Cyrus said Goodbye to Twitter ?
Teenage pop star Miley Cyrus has released a homemade rap video on Youtube explaining she wants to regain some sort of 'normal' private life.
I'm just noticing the video was uploaded on October 9, 2009 and we are 3 days later ... with over 2 million Youtube views.
She declared on her website "Twitter is not the only thing I am cutting back on. This is not an attack against this particular site, I just think kids all over the world could maybe take a little vacation from Cyberspace. My problem with the internet is it makes negativity so available. It allows people to anonymously hurt others without any consequences."
It's pretty relevant.
Are teens more social than social media people ?
Visit her fan page also: http://www.facebook.com/MileyCyrus
