Synopsis
Children today are different! But not just because they mature years earlier than children did even a couple of generations ago. Not just because of the clothes they wear or don’t wear. Not just because they dye their hair and style it differently than we did when we were that age. Not just because they seem to have more body parts than we did – which they seem to want to pierce, tattoo, and/or expose.

No, today’s Instant Messenger Generation has grown up in a new digital landscape. For most of them, there’s never been a time in their lives when computers, cell phones, video games, the Internet and all the other digital wonders that increasingly define their (and our) world haven’t surrounded them. Constant exposure to digital media has changed the way these Digital Natives process, interact and use information. As a result, DNs communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generation.

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Forwarded by
BJ Berquist
bjb@tappedin.org