Growing Up Online:
Overview:
FRONTLINE: The Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) news-magazine, produced by WGBH in Boston, has been turning out award winning, public affairs documentaries since 1983.
- View the PBS Website.
- View the FRONTLINE Website.
- View many of the FRONTLINE documentaries produced over their 25-year history.
In "Growing Up Online," FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming the experience of adolescence:
- At school, teachers are trying to figure out how to reach a generation that no longer reads books or newspapers.
- Fear of online predators has led teachers and parents to focus primarily on keeping kids safe online. But many young people think these fears are misplaced.
- Online media has also intensified the social dimensions of adolescence as teens create and play with identities on sites like MySpace and Facebook and encounter intense peer pressure in a variety of virtual worlds.
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Parents are confused about how to respond to the increasingly private worlds inhabited by their children, lacking an understanding of both the creative potential and the genuine risks of this new dimension of our cultural environment.
Content:
- Growing Up Online: Available from the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). View the website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
- Below is an "Inline Frame (embedded web page)" which will allow you to view the entire program.
- The program is made up of seven chapters, you are encouraged to watch them all:
| Chapter | Title | Length (Minutes) |
| 1 | Introduction & "Living Their Lives Essentially Online" | 7:34 |
| 2 | "A revolution in Classrooms and Social Life" | 9:04 |
| 3 | "Self Expression, Trying On New Identities" | 7:15 |
| 4 | "The Child Predator Fear" | 7:33 |
| 5 | "Private Worlds, Outside Parents' Reach" | 8:18 |
| 6 | "Cyberbullying" | 8:31 |
| 7 | "Updates" | 8:20 |
| TOTAL TIME | 56:35 |
Directions:
- Move your cursor over the images below:
- You will see a brief synopsis of the material present in the chapter.
- "Click" on the image to view the chapter.
- As you move your cursor laterally, over the images, more images (chapters) will become visible.
- Player Features:
- SEARCH:
- Allows you to make a search among all FRONTLINE documentaries, based upon a specific topic.
- REPORTS:
- Allows you to view other FRONTLINE documentaries.
- CHAPTERS:
- Allows you to select specific chapters within the selected documentary.
- Continuous Play:
- ON: Once you select an episode, subsequent episodes will play continuously from that point.
- OFF: Once you select an episode, that episode will play to its completion. You will then have to select another episode to continue.
- SEARCH:
- ENJOY!
Summary:
This documentary is not presented to inspire fear. Rather, it is presented to provide insight into the minds of our current generation of college students. These are students who have never known a time without cellphones, computers, and instant access to the world's information and each other.
This instant access to everything changes the way students view, accept, and assimilate information. Therefore, it changes the way we successfully teach.
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