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Study reveals a generation 'raised online'



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A GENERATION of young people is effectively being "raised online" by spending their free time on internet sites such as Facebook and MySpace, a report said today.
Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests many teenagers are spending more than 20 hours a week online, staying up into the early hours of the morning and leaving their mobile phones on all night in case they receive a text message.

It warns a lack of parental knowledge and understanding means that few have any idea about what their children are doing online. This new research, titled Behind the Screen: the Hidden Life of Youth and published next month, comes ahead of the final report of the Byron Review of children and new technology, set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2007 and headed by Dr Tanya Byron.

The report argues that with children being "raised online" the Government and internet firms need to do more to protect them from inappropriate content.





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  • Last Updated: 24 March 2008 10:35 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Technology
 
1

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 24/03/2008 15:07:15
This generation raised online is illiterate, don't know how to use a library because they just Google names and subjects and cannot separate the viable facts and figures from spurious ones because there are so many dodgy sites out there, and the are unmannered, have short attention spans, could not coherently argue their way out of a wet paper bag because their "minds" are filled with useless "knowledge" and preoccupied with texting and showing off on Facebook and MySpace.

This is a lost generation and if they don't smarten up we will suffer the results of an undereducated workface that does not know how to spell or punctuate or know the rules of paragraphing and cannot communicate with concision and coherence. Sad, sad, sad.
2

John Blackley,

Florida 24/03/2008 19:47:54
TimW, in the past fifty years, all generations have been called 'illiterate' by a certain sector of the preceding generation.

I think your comment is a horrible generalisation and does no justice to the many smart, dedicated members of the current teen generation.

Instead of comments like yours and generalised 'research' like that quoted in the article ("many teenagers are spending more than 20 hours a week online" - okay, so how many is "many"? Ten? A thousand? A million?), I'd like to see some harder research that includes numbers and ties to education results.
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TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 24/03/2008 20:45:30
#2

So I generalised. So .... sue me. There ARE gifted teens out there but they are increasingly few and far between.

I find the teenagers I encounter in public to be loud, self-absorbed know-it-alls with no social skills, horrible dress sense, and an appalling "lingua franca" that is laced with too many "eff words", the phrase, "You know?", and a total lack of imagination in thought and deed.

THIS is the future of the world. God give us salvation from such a scourge of stupidity.
4

CowtownSweetheart,

Edinburgh 24/03/2008 23:37:11
So, #3, how many of these teenagers have you encountered? 2, 4? Have you actually asked them any questions about geography, current events or other relevant issues that matter to you or did you just observe from a distance and judge based on what clothing they happen to be wearing and if they happen to be having fun with friends:> Wow, I had no Idea such a powerful and all knowing intolerant, judgemental, washed up think tank existed in Canada.

 

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