The Digital Skeptic: Teens Are Web-Addicted, but Digital Illiterates Jonathan Blum 06/26/12
NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Sang-Jin Bae thinks something is amiss with computers. He should know. He's used them for decades as a technical director for Disney's Little Einsteins and as an animation production supervisor for shows at places such as Nickelodeon. He even teaches. His animation classes are some of the most popular at New York University's ritzy Tisch School of the Arts. To Bae, the problem is not the computer. It's the people using them. "When kids come into my class they divide into three groups," he says. There are the pure geeks who love technology. There are those trying to understand. And then there is the biggest group: "Those who couldn't care less." As remarkable as it is to consider, this hip, articulate 36-year old computer whiz makes a heck of an argument that the computer age is entering a dark new era: the age of the digital illiterate. Today's teens grew up on SMS and Facebook. Everything is being presented to them all the time. Web companies love it, since kids are addicted to their products. But, he says, "They expect less and less from the Web and the software they use." Bae is not just talking about obscure, high-end animation tools. Instead, he sees an essential dumbing down of bedrock computing skills. ... http://www.thestreet.com/story/11596144/1/the-digital-skeptic-teens-are-web-addicted-but-digital-illiterates.html _______________________________________________ Please be sure to include a URL to the article. Reply to the sender with a "Thank you" if you like this post. _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
