- Texting, Surfing, Studying?
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This pretty much sums up the state of adults’ understanding of children and their relationship with the new digital age we live in.
The New York Times:
Parents are digital immigrants, Dr. Christakis said; children are digital natives. “In the 20th century, you worried about a digital divide separating rich from poor,” he said. “That’s narrowed, and the one that’s emerging is separating parents from their children. We’re fairly clueless about the digital world they inhabit.”
Oct 18, 2009 :: Tagged under: child development, sociology of children, sociology of family, technology, television, texting, thefuture, video games :: #
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