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PBS - Growing Up Online
On January 22, 2008, PBS will run an episode of FRONTLINE titled “Growing Up Online.” The program starts at 9:00 PM on Channel 39.
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In “Growing Up Online,” FRONTLINE peers inside the world of this cyber-savvy generation through the eyes of teens and their parents, who often find themselves on opposite sides of a new digital divide. From cyber bullying to instant “Internet fame,” to the specter of online sexual predators, FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin investigates the risks, realities and misconceptions of teenage self-expression on the World Wide Web.
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They cyberbullying portion of this episode most interested me because it explores how young user’s social network of support (or its opposite) has broadened immensely thanks to social networking. I’m not making an alarmist cry here either. To me as an educator, it brings home the importance of teaching our students to participate ethically and productively not only in their school assignments but in their extracurricular choices. Although we have considered this in the past, it’s more important than ever. The part of the new 21st-century learner standards that address these issues cannot be shortchanged.