Growing up Online — PBS Frontline Documentary

From a review I published on TheMediaSpot.org: “The PBS Frontline documentary, Growing Up Online, is an exploration of the digital world that kids are spending a lot of time in these days. Frontline may tend to put a hard spin on issues like this, but this one was SCARY… And I’m not even a parent! If this is not a fair depiction of American youth at present, one can easily imagine it in the near future. Educators take various worthy positions on the form media education should take into schools — teach about media without technology, teach about media through collaborative production (wink), etc. Whatever position you take, it is clear, evidenced by videos like this, that emerging digital technologies impact kids’ identity formation and what it means to be a citizen in our culture, and the it is the responsibility of schools to adapt to that influence one way or another.”

• Read the rest of my review on TheMediaSpot.org
• Watch Growing Up Online on Frontline.org
• Check out the Teacher’s Guide that goes along with the video