Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:28:03 -0400 From: David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Information Sources <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Net-Gold] "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year-Olds"
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:03:58 -0600 From: George Lessard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: L8 Media Mentor <[email protected]>, L9 NetGold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Net-Gold] "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year-olds" Media Smarts by Ken Ellis For many students, what happens in the traditional America classroom is boring. Small wonder, when you compare such relatively inanimate stuff as pencil and paper bound reading, writing, and math drills to the media mix of mind bending imagery and hair raising sound that consumes most of their waking hours outside school. A recent study, "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year-olds," found that students in grades 3 to 12 spend an average of six hours and twenty one minutes plugged in to some type of media each day. Accounting for multitasking, the figure jumps to about eight and a half hours including nearly four hours of TV viewing and forty nine minutes of video game play. Comparatively, homework gets slightly less than fifty minutes of attention. For this digital generation, electronic media is increasingly seductive, influential, and pervasive, yet most schools treat the written word as the only means of communication worthy of study. Therefore, most American students remain poorly equipped to think critically about, and express themselves through, the media that defines them. FULL ARTICLE AT: <http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1321> OR AS PDF-FILE AT: <http://www.edutopia.org/php/print.php?id= Art_1321&template=printarticle.php> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
