Film 260 Project

1. Technology is changing
the definition of being
a kid

2. Children are growing up in a time known as the
“Touch Screen Generation”(10)
image via Petras Gagilas

3. “Not that long ago there was only television, which
theoretically could be kept in the parents’
bedroom or locked behind a cabinet”(10)
image via Brandan King

4. Which made children play outside and use their
imagination to make up games! (1)
image via Stefano Corso

5. Now parents are handing over an iPad whenever
they don’t want to have to entertain their kid. (10)
image via Kris

6. Kids even know how to navigate an iPad
BEFORE they know how to tie a shoe!
image via Christopher Vu

7. Parents want their kids to “swim expertly in the digital
stream” but also worry of the negative side effects. (10)
image via mliu92

8. As their children age the worries change from t0o much
technology to what they do on the internet. (3) (7)
image via Kamyar Adl

9. The internet was once used by adolescents to
fulfill their needs for entertainment…(8)
image via Binary Koala

10. Today they are increasingly using it to interact w/
friends…75% of teens us IM on a regular basis (8)
image via Mark Normin Francis

11. With constant attachment it has created cyber-bullying
and Cyber-bullying has caused a rise in suicide stats.(6)
image via Tim Wang

12. Amanda Todd, a BC teen, took her life after posting
a video on YouTube describing how she had been
tormented by bullying online and struggling with
depression.(6) image via Shandi-Lee Cox

13. Technology has increased social anxiety
among teens (2) (4) (8)
image via Daniela Munoz - Santos

14. Those with social anxiety find it difficult to
fulfill a social need of belonging because of
their fear of face-to-face interactions. (8)
image via Jason Parks

15. This leads many teens to turn to the internet (8)
image via Ministerio TIC Colobia

16. Another side effect of technology consumption is
our ability to read instead of skim (9)
image via Kat N.L.M

17. Studies show that it has become more difficult to
sit down an read a book because so many people
are accustomed to skimming articles on their
iPad (9)
image via Hernán Piñera

18. with many things being scary and negative about
technology… there are benefits of growing up in
todays generation (5)
image via Mervi Eskelinen

19. Children and young adults growing up today with
access to a world around them that they can get
to with a click of a button…or tap of a finger (5)
image via Marcus Kwan

20. Growing up today is nothing like it once
was and it never will be again and it is
important to embrace technology without
becoming consumed by it.

21. Sources
Harris, Marlys. "Kids Stay Indoors: What Happened To, 'Go outside and Play'?" MinnPost.
MinnPost, 08 Sept. 2013. Web. 12 June 2015. (1)
"Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" New York Times Upfront. Education Source, 2014. Web. 10
June 2015. (2)
Johnson, Matthew. "Use, Understand & Create: Towards a Comprehensive Canadian Digital
Literacy Curriculum." Use, Understand & Create: Towards a Comprehensive Canadian
Digital Literacy Curriculum. Media Smart, 31 Mar. 2015. Web. 12 June 2015. (3)
Konnikova, Maria. "How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy - The New Yorker." The New Yorker. The
New Yorker, 10 Sept. 2013. Web. 12 June 2015. (4)
Mac, Lindsey Harper. "10 Reasons Technology Is Vital to Education." Bitshare. Bitshare, n.d.
Web. 12 June 2015. (5)
News, CBC. "Cyberbullying-linked Suicides Rising, Study Says - Technology & Science - CBC
News." CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 20 Oct. 2012. Web. 12 June 2015. (6)

22. Paul, Pamela. "Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I." The New York Times 5 May 2013: 8(L).
Academic OneFile. Web. 12 June 2015. <http://go.galegroup.com.proxy.queensu.ca/ps/i.do?
id=GALE|
A328694536&v=2.1&u=queensulaw&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=ed444bf722dd554a00a728a96
a4737f2>. (7)
Pierce, Tamyra. "Social Anxiety and Technology: Face-to-face Communication versus
Technological Communication among Teens." Computers in Human Behavior 25.6 (2009):
1367-372. Web. 10 June 2015. (8)
Rosenwald, Michael S. "Serious Reading Takes a Hit from Online Scanning and Skimming,
Researchers Say." The Washington Post 6 Apr. 2014: n. pag. Academic OneFile. Web. 12 June
2015. <http://go.galegroup.com.proxy.queensu.ca/ps/i.do?id=GALE|
A364033903&v=2.1&u=queensulaw&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=9aef25304e722a5f4d0d00c21ce
16dac>. (9)
Rosin, Hanna. "The Touch-Screen Generation." The Atlantic Monthly 311.3 (2013): 56+. Web.
10 June 2015. (10)

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