ELA WRITING ASSESMENT
An organization called the Digital Youth Project conducted a study on how social network , video sharing sites , and electronic devices have greatly effected the lives of youth culture. They interviewed over 800 youth and young adults to configure how much the media was being used . Various people were involved in the conduction of this widespread study.Many adults worry that children waste their time doing things such as playing games or texting. This organization found that to somewhat be true but instead of focusing completely on the downsides on the downsides of social network (texting, etc.) they decided to look at the Brightside. For example, the Digital Youth Project stated this , "The digital world is creating new opportunities for youth to grapple with social norms, explore new interests, develop technical skills, and experiment with new forms of self expression ."
The Digital Youth Project's point of view has shined a positive light on new technology. These authors have even came up with two categories for people's motives when on the internet. The two categories are Friendship and Interest driven online media use. This is quite brilliant considering that most people use the internet to either gain friends or explore interests.
When you really analyze the summary of the Digital Youth Project's findings you see how they've really taken the use of social media and its affect on teens and broke it down to a simple form. Not only did they point out the bad they pointed out the good which in my opinion is very rare. Lots of people look down upon the use of technology or they say its taking over our lives but the Digital Youth Project disregarded that and said you know what lets do something different.
Technology has also affected how we learn. Their are already schools using Ipad's as books as well as a note taking tool. So my big question is technology helping us or hurting us or will it start to take over our lives?
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