Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Gotta love PBS

This investigation took a rather unexpected turn at the end with the suicides and eating disorders. But the points that were stressed there helped knock home some of the key ideas that were introduced early on. At the start I was not surprised with what the educators had to say about technology, and how it needs to be used regularly and that students are more educated about technology than the teachers. When you really sit down and look around you'll see that we are throughly in the throngs of a paradigm shift; we've moved past consumers of physical products to consumers of services and internet based goods. Teens are literally putting themselves on display online, something that I have never done to the extent that my peers have. I would call myself a little more classic and modest in some respects and am continually surprised about what people are willing putting on the internet for all to see. The refreshing thing is that though young teens though sharing some more elicit things are very ware of the dangers and how to avoid them. However with the internet they are even more accessible than before they can be tormented from afar with great ease. As a future educator there will be a continued need for teachers to be aware and teach students how to manage cyber bullying.

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