TAG: youth
Letting kids drink early reduces binging
"In this age of "just say no," some people believe it is time for Americans to reconsider how they teach kids about alcohol."
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If It Says McDonald's, Then It Must Be Good
"Some food tastes better to children if they think it came from McDonald's, a small study suggests."
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Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)
"The film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head."
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'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
"A nosy parent goes where the kids are and learns more than just what her kid is up to."
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"Those who saw the telephone as a destructive force in communities might have had -- and might still have -- a point, but technological changes have left them on the fringe of society."
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A conversation about death between a parent and his three-year-old daughter.
Teens Schizophrenic About Their Brands
"Millennials have complex feelings about brands unless, of course, it's Apple. "
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Thirty Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and fifty Nine Seconds
"The Threebillion Project put together a nice little video for MTV Asia's Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week. The video displays thirty six youth facts in one hundred and fifty nine seconds."
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An incredibly helpful news station exposes the dangers/pitfalls of emo.
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"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
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YPulse conference on reaching youth using technology.
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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.
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ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)
"While adult bloggers talk about building an identity through extended blogging, i keep finding teens who got locked out of Xanga and responded by making another Xanga (or a Blogger or a LiveJournal)."
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what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens
"Email is not gone but it is dead in the sense that it is no longer a site of deep emotional passion. People still have accounts, just like they still have mailboxes. But their place for sociable communication is elsewhere."
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1. Marketing should make the world better. 2. Millennials are about to change the world (more). 3. Brands are anthropomorphic.
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All about the act of 'friending.'
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youth and those crazy hormones
Maybe, just maybe, it's possible that teenagers aren't as dumb as we think they are?
Looking back on 25 years of MTV, "More and more, it feels as if there is no longer such a thing as mass culture. MTV, for good or bad, still reassures me that there is."
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"The summer-camp ink blot, then, is universal. You are how you camped, even if you never camped at all."
The Ten Biggest Themes of 'What Teens Want'
A great roundup of teen trends from Anastasia at YPulse.
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"These kids don't need to read The Long Tail, it's just how the world works to them. Rad."
Social Networks are Killing Email
"Email is now a commodity feature: we can almost assume that we’ll always have some sort of messaging system no matter what software we use. Messaging puts the social in social software…"
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For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume
College kids are facing the hard truth from all the stuff they've posted about themselves online.
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Take This Internship and Shove It
"What if the growth of unpaid internships is bad for the labor market and for individual careers?"
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Barbie? Who's Barbie? Young girls are playing electronic house with The Sims, and the game lets them tell their own stories.
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Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
"Social technologies succeed when they fit into the social lives and practices of those who engage with the technology."
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Will Wright: "In an era of structured education and standardized testing, this generational difference might not yet be evident. But the gamers' mindset - the fact that they are learning in a totally new way - means they'll treat the world as a place for creation . ."
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Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
Danah Boyd's excellent look at MySpace and it's impact on youth culture.
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"Younger people are not tied to a location anymore," said Ritch Blasi, Cingular's director of media relations. "They really are tied to their phones."
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Their Own Version of a Big Bang
Those who believe in creationism -- children and adults -- are being taught to challenge evolution's tenets in an in-your-face way.
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Psst, Don't Tell Anyone, But the Internet Is Over
David Card explains, "People seem to be settling on what they use the Internet for, and doing fewer things overall."
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Career advice for young people?
The five skills Creating Passionate Users predicts young people will need are "creativity, flexibility, resourcefulness, synthesis and metacognition."
There's no such thing as cyberspace.
"I find very compelling the idea that we beginning to see a generation that has not grown up with the idea of the internet as a separate "cyberspace""
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Generation Y Ripe For Experiential Marketing
"A recent survey of 2,574 US consumers commissioned by Jack Morton and conducted this year found Gen Y consumers - also known as "millennials" - respond strongly to live marketing events, which they prefer over TV and Internet advertising."
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If It's After Midnight, Then It's Time to Market to Young Men
The Oxyride campaign gets another New York Times mention, this time talking about marketing after hours.
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Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude
""They've grown up questioning their parents, and now they're questioning their employers. They don't know how to shut up, which is great, but that's aggravating to the 50-year-old manager"
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Growing up with the wired generation
"Today's teenagers use technology to stay in touch with friends at all times - turning their bedrooms into 'connected cocoons'"
Teen Content Creators and Consumers
"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
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Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
"The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher."
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Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers
Web 2.0 Conference: "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers."
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The DH Interview With Phillip Bouchard, Creator of Oregon Trail
Finally, an interview with the man behind the game I remember most from my childhood.
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"A young person is constantly taking risks as a means to improve him or herself; an older person feels that he or she has taken enough risks already and is sated with his or her point of development."
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Kidsbeer proves hit suds for minors
"Kidsbeer, a nonalcoholic brew aimed at children, is catching on with young drinkers and is posting monthly shipments of 75,000 bottles, according to maker Tomomasu Co"
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Friendster's Flattening and the Participation Generation
"If Jonathan had instead of found a way to accommodate hundreds of thousands passionate users who were doing a ton of free work on his behalf, I don’t think we would have ever heard of MySpace."
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ChangeThis: "Everyone is always wondering what kids are thinking. DK gives you view into the complicated and sometimes contradictory world of today's teens."
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Pew Internet: Teens and Technology
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
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Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over
Senator, would your probe of video games also take a look at the substantial benefits they can provide?
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Why children love Roald Dahl’s storiesâ€â€and many adults don’t.
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From the very first moment we suit up for gym, our physical abilities can influence who we become or reveal who we were meant to be: blooming star athlete or total band nerd.
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Facts of Life, for Their Eyes Only
The history of fifth grade sex education videos.
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As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested . . . part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such things never happen
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Lawrence Lessig responds to the outpouring of support because the New York Magazine article on his abuse at the hands of teachers at Boychoir School.
Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory, Study Finds
"The results show how some types of memory might be better when people forget what they know and instead approach a subject with a child-like sense of naïveté."
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Guardian: "It's an ageless, unisex, all-weather basic. With a hoodie, there's no need to carry a jacket or an umbrella. It's all there, on your back."
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Korean Kids' Greatest Fear: No Cell Phone
"What would be the harshest punishment to junior and senior high school students today? Confiscation of their cell phones, rendering them helpless to send SMs to their friends or post their digital school pictures on the Internet."
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Increase the Challenge, Increase the Attention
Eide: "Older adults and younger school age children had problems with focus at low levels of 'visual challenge' . . . When the task was made more challenging (centrally distracting letters), both the older and younger subjects performed better."
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Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""
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Some key findings from the latest JupiterResearch online teen survey
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Notes from talk--The Real Deal: How Young Adults Spend Their Time Online
Susan Mernit: "from RSS and SMS to peer-to-peer file sharing, find out how newspapers can tap into the new information networks, and the audience was about 40 newspaper editors and one online news producer."
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Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today: "The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity."
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Inflection Points: Personal Discoveries that Redirected Children's Lives
"In the rush to have all our school children 'meet standards' and be taught "what every n'th grader needs to know", we shouldn't forget that some of the most memorable experiences are those which make children yearn to learn more."
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Time: In a wireless world, teenagers are driving the hottest new technologies since the dotcom era
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YPulse: An AOL Red survey said "...Half of the country's teenagers would rather open up and discuss their feelings with a blog than with their parents."
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PSP, I Love You: For Gamers, The Date Has Finally Arrived
Washington Post: ""What portable gaming does is take video games to the public in the same way that the cell phone took communication out of the homes and into the street . . ."
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The Register: "Schoolchildren are developing a "problem-solving deficit disorder", and losing the ability to analyze."
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A forum discussion question that attempts to answer how many five-year-olds you could take on at once
Drinking Game Can Be a Deadly Rite of Passage
People die when they take 21 shots in an hour . . . is that news?
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ClickZ: "A full 63 percent of cell phone users in the Generation Y demographic use SMS (define) compared to 31 percent of Generation X (ages 28 to 39) mobile phone users."
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Backpacks, Lunch Boxes and Cells?
Nearly Half of US Teens and Tweens Have Cell Phones, According to NOP World mKids Study
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Understanding the Internet generation
Blake Ross: "I want to understand now why today’s admissions climate makes students crave the decision, what’s unique about my generation that so affords this craving, and how we can make progress toward curing both."
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“Media Multi-tasking� Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People’s Media Use
Press release from the Kaiser Family Foundation
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Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds
The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, examined media use among a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants w
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What Are Video Games Turning Us Into?
What are the long terms effects of videogame usage? Will it create a future workforce happy to sit in front of their computers?
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Going Online: Youth & the Internet
A brief look at the numbers of children and teens accessing the Internet and what they do online. (2003)
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How the playlist generation will reinvent radio
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Frito-Lay Urges "Millennials" to Seize the Moment
Info on the new Doritos campaign that asks INNW? (If Not Now When?)
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Tylenol goes underground to woo the 18-29 set.
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South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating
Info about the South Korean SMS cheating scandal
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A Room With A View: TVs Still Beat PCs In Kids Bedrooms
Looking at the cultural effects of having TVs and internet in children's bedrooms
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Open Windows Into Your Students' Souls
Build Student Response by Replacing Paper-And-Pen Journals with Online Forums and 'Secret Identities'
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SMS Text Messaging and Youth Culture
Thoughts on the importance of text messaging in youth culture
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A User's Guide To Middle School Romance
If you're in eighth grade and planning to fall in love, READ THIS FIRST!
Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End
"It used to be you'd call someone because you had a reason to call," said Ian Johnson, 28, a graduate student at American. "Now you call because you're bored waiting for the bus to come. . . . It's almost a noise pollution."
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More Teens See Future in Business
Annual study finds increasing number of next generation see business as “ideal job,� followed by careers in medicine, education and entertainment.
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A sassy online voice hip to all the latest teen buzz
San Francisco Chronicle profile on Anastasia Goodstein and YPulse.com
Should parents let their kids drink in their house? Isn't it a whole lot safer than letting them go drive around and drink in parking lots?
BBC: "Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there - including many sites created by children."