http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/youth Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_gen_y_is_going_to_change_the_web.php Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that?s compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X?ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we?re going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a whole. aseldow Fri, 16 May 2008 19:33:58 +0000 generation y gen y youth internet http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2999&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Despite the worries of their parents (and professors), teenagers’ use of language online is surprisingly sophisticated. That’s the conclusion of two researchers from the University of Toronto, who looked at spoken and IM communications of 72 people ages 15 to 20. Instant messaging represented, they said, “an expansive new linguistic renaissance.” katiebda Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:48 +0000 may08 youth authorship research http://www.nexusproject.net.au/ The teachers' guide to this new website explains that it is designed to be a space where young refugees and migrants can improve linguistic and digital literacy. It is also designed to be a space for interaction, conversation and community. Young people from around Australia (and the world) are welcome to use the site to communicate with each other, share stories and practise language in context. janetmb Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:40:59 +0000 refugees literacy multiliteracy language youth music collaboration http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/11/26/girls_suicide_after_online_chats_leaves_a_town_in_shock/?page=2 Cyberbullying by a neighbor mom causes a tragedy. linem Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:38:53 +0000 cyberbullying internet ethics new media youth identity anonymity http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/nov/19/dps-to-vote-on-closings/ tnikundiwe Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:25:57 +0000 jovenes unidos padres unidos denver youth denver public schools youth organizing community organizing a360padres school closings http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Search/858884.html They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one. INTERNET USED TO STOP BULLYING OFFLINE. trustteam Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:46:40 +0000 youth ethics http://www.slate.com/id/2173910 So, there I was: old enough to remember Voltron, beer in hand, sitting with my laptop, surrounded by (presumed) preteens. Club Penguin plopped me in the town center. Forty or so birds were milling about. Some were dancing, others throwing snowballs. As I gazed upon this scene, I remembered something that I had once read: If your body could stay the same as it was at 12, you would live for hundreds of years. But what about your mind? What if it stayed locked at 12? Club Penguin offers that deeply trippy experience. trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:00:00 +0000 games youth trends participation http://www.slate.com/id/2173912/fr/rss/ To educate myself—and to find out what the target audience for these sites really thinks of them—I organized a focus group of five sixth-graders, all 11 years old. I set up two laptops and let the kids show me their favorites. At times the project seemed like a demonstration for a gender studies class with the boys at one computer, the girls at another. Anna, a budding sociologist, explained, "Most sites for girls are an online world—it's socializing. For boys, it's gaming." trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:52:20 +0000 youth trends games http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9777376-36.html?part=rss Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation." trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:37:09 +0000 myspace media youth http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/09/ff_facebook Photo: Emily Shur He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon. trustteam Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:51:54 +0000 social networking facebook youth http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01facebook.html?ex=1346385600&en=54ab7ad5eb8e9aad&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink FACEBOOK FOUNDING: Both parties seem to have forgotten Aaron J. Greenspan, yet another Harvard classmate. He says he was actually the one who created the original college social networking system, before either side in the legal dispute. And he has the e-mail messages to show it. trustteam Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:54:20 +0000 social networking facebook youth http://www.roanoke.com/business/wb/wb/xp-128781 Roanoke's city government is taking on a new approach to boosting the region's young adult population by trying to "friend" them. The online offensive includes opening accounts on MySpace and Facebook, and posting videos on YouTube, with Stuart Mease, the driving force behind Roanoke's quest for attracting young professionals, leading the charge. trustteam Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:52:21 +0000 social networking youth civic engagement http://www.itnews.com.au/news/59257,us-curriculum-to-include-online-safety.aspx The US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has called on state leaders to work with schools and colleges to ensure that cyber-security, online safety and ethics lessons are integrated into every classroom. trustteam Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:33:36 +0000 youth ethics http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/facebook_changes For longtime users, the influx of grownups means that information once intended for a circle of fellow students is now available for anyone to see. That has introduced a new social conundrum: deciding whose invites should be accepted -- and how much of your profile they should be able to see. "You can't really unfriend your mom," says Hillary Woolley, a junior at the University of California at Davis. "So I've been upping my privacy settings." trustteam Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:15:09 +0000 social networking facebook youth privacy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/myspace-has-4-times-the-sex-offenders-originally-reported/ MySpace.com has found and deleted profiles of 29,000 convicted sex offenders, more than four times the initial 7,000 profiles they claimed in May. The numbers were discovered after MySpace turned over info detailing the offenders they had removed from the service. MySpace turned over the records after states filed a formal legal request. trustteam Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:12:40 +0000 social networking youth privacy myspace