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.
One in five online Americans view video over the Internet on any given day, thanks to speedier Internet connections and a wider selection of clips, a study finds.
Young adults watch in greater numbers and often turn to humorous clips, while all other age groups use video predominantly for news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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Boston's public schools plan to expand an Internet safety campaign this summer, training 15 high school students in online safety and having them train their peers and mentor students in elementary schools and in their communities. BU professor Whittier ""It's very much a benefit for them to understand what ethical behavior is and what ethical practices are in cyberspace,"
While no one stepped up to give an exact age, many parents defended these virtual worlds as being extensions of their kids’ real world relationships. Rather than meet new, possibly scary, strangers online, the kids were generally using the virtual worlds as a way to communicate with their friends from school.
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles. But when it comes to one kind of work they are required to do in college — namely, academic research — they can be inept. Too often, college officials say, students rely on Google or Wikipedia as sources, as if oblivious to peer-reviewed..
Science.net, an epistemic game in which middle schoolers spend several weeks role-playing as science journalists. The majority of them, however, don?t have a strategy for assessing the reliability of the information that they find. Here?s one typical response: "You never know, it's the internet. If the first thing that pops up and then it looks pretty professional, then I'd use it..."
Each of them is sparking an online phenomenon that's radically transforming our culture and industry.
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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.
One in five online Americans view video over the Internet on any given day, thanks to speedier Internet connections and a wider selection of clips, a study finds. Young adults watch in greater numbers and often turn to humorous clips, while all other age groups use video predominantly for news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
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