8Th Grade Unit 1: Coming of Age in the Digital Age Resources

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8th grade Unit 1: Coming of Age in the Digital Age – Resources

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Online Safety

· Privacy in the Digital Age ACHIEVE3000

· Online Safety

· http://kidshealth.org/teen/safety/safebasics/internet_safety.html

GENERAL – Teens and Technology

· Pew Internet and America Life on teens and the Internet: http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/teens-and-technology/pages/4/

· Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society? ProCon.org - http://socialnetworking.procon.org/

· “Texting May be Taking a Toll”

· lhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26teen.html

· “Texting Addictions” http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/hot+topics/texting+adictions

· Negative Effects of Social Media on Teens

· http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20140415/articles/140419801

· To Text or To Talk? ACHIEVE3000

· “Needing the ‘Net” – ACHIEVE3000

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (including self)

· “We Never Talk Anymore: The Problem with Texting” http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/tech/mobile/problem-text-messaging-oms/

· “FOMO” = Fear of Missing Out - Washington Post article: “Research finds link between social media and the ‘fear of missing out’,”7/8/2013 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/research-finds-link-between-social-media-and-the-fear-of-missing-out/2013/07/08/b2cc7ddc-e287-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_story.html

· DoSomething.org article: “9 Ways Technology Affects Mental Health” - https://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/9-ways-technology-affects-mental-health#

· “The Trouble With Texting”- ACHIEVE3000

· “9 Ways Technology Affects Mental Health”

· http://www.ehawellness.org/ehareps/9ways.pdf

· “Students can’t resist distraction for two minutes…and neither canhyou – NBC News”

· http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/students-cant-resist-distraction-two-minutes-neither-can-you-f1C9984270

· NBC News video: “Docs Warn About Teens and ‘Facebook Depression’,” 3/29/2011 - http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42298789/ns/health-mental_health/t/docs-warn-about-teens-facebook-depression/#.VAChWeNdXTo

SCHOOL

· New York Times series Your Brain on Computers (2010*) on the effects of ubiquitous technology on school and learning: *(these titles are older and may not reflect current technology available to teens, but they raise interesting and compelling questions)

§ “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html

§ “Students and Technology, Constant Companions” – I love this! Audio clips of 5 students talking about their relationship with technology

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-interactive.html?ref=technology

· “Can kids really do their homework and multi-task?” – article: School AtoZ, Government of New South Wales, Australia. – This article you can listen to and follow along as it is read to you.

· http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/technology/using-technology/homework-and-multitasking-can-it-be-done

· “Text Messaging and its Effects on Teens' Grammar”
- The University of Alabama Computers and Applied Technology Program (2009). Technology Education: A series of Case Studies. (Available at http://www.ua.edu/edtechcases.) http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/Case%20Numbers/text%20messaging%20and%20grammar_Case%2011.pdf

· “Digital Distractions”

· http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2014/campuslife/digital-distractions.html

· “Wired and Tired” – ACHIEVE3000

· “Higher Screen Time, Lower Grades” – ACHIEVE3000

· DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

· Video: “Toils of Social Networking,” CBS News report on teens’ digital footprints - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THRZEDyHIfQ

· Social media and getting into college http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/business/they-loved-your-gpa-then-they-saw-your-tweets.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1413468295-QF8nNNXXBCpVoW5CV0sMCw&pagewanted=print

· College & Social Media

http://www.today.com/parents/application-angst-teens-social-media-could-hurt-college-chances-2D11641782

· Digital Self/Web Identity

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/guest-post-who-are-you-online-considering-issues-of-web-identity/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&

· Kids and Screen Time – Listen to the story of a school’s experience

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/30/351521488/kids-and-screen-time-cutting-through-the-static

· “Peer Pressure: Its Influence on Teens and Decision Making”

· http://headsup.scholastic.com/students/peer-pressure-its-influence-on-teens-and-decision-making

· “Making Decisions “– ACHIEVE3000

· “Are Web Sites Watching You?” – ACHIEVE3000

· “Privacy in the Digital Age” – ACHIEVE3000

· “Schools Take Steps to Stop Bullies” – ACHIEVE3000

· “Are You Being Bullied”

· http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/bullying/bullying_news/index.asp?article=bullyingintro&topic=0