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 * __Some Themes in the Frontline Video – “Growing Up Online”__

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// Use these ideas and your own to blog to your tutorial teacher about what you thought about this documentary. Find email addresses below. Write at least one page of your thoughts and opinions. // · Think about whether technology is good or bad for kids' education and development. What are your thoughts on that issue?

· How do you view the internet’s impact and do you worry about it or not? Do you have a story to share? · Think about whether technology is good or bad for kids' education and development. What are your thoughts on that issue?

· Kids' knowledge is broader but also much shallower than it used to be. Kids seem to know a little bit about a lot, but they're so impatient, so used to moving quickly, that they cannot handle the deep, probing, complex thinking that is the key to true mastery.  · Writing an e-mail for a lot of the kids we talked to is equivalent to sitting down and hand-writing a letter for me. They described e-mail as a slow, archaic way to keep in touch with your aunt halfway across the country or apply for a summer internship  · Cyber-bullying is perhaps the more prevalent danger. Were you expecting on-line predators to be a bigger concern?  · The threat of online predators is misunderstood and overblown  · How dramatically is the Internet changing the experience of childhood?  · It's also worth remembering that, for all the danger inherent in it, the opportunities the Web affords — for education, for communication, for self-actualization — are far more profound.