Presented at the "This Is Me" conference in 2010, "From Foxtrot to Facebook is a look at how young people use the tools that they have grown up with - and how society may not have changed as much as people might think.

1. From Foxtrot to Facebook
Social Tools and the New Generation
Ben Nunney
Education Technology
& Social Communities
www.theopenbracket.net
http://twitter.com/bennuk
ben@netshake.net

2. How do kids today
differ from kids yesterday?

3. My
friend
Ray

4. “… after 2 hours my parents would shout
GET OFF THE PHONE and GO OUTSIDE!”

5. “Now I find myself saying
stop Facebooking and get some fresh air!”

6. Same rules
New tools?

7. The Average Teenager…

8. 7 hours a night sleeping

9. 6 hours a day at school

10. 2 hours eating

11. 1 ½ hours watching
television

12. 3 ½ hours a day online

13. 2 ½ hours listening to music

14. 2 hours on the telephone

15. 3 hours study outside of
school

16. 27.5 hours per day

17. I am a Multitasker.
(I have to be)

18. Meet Adam
(16)
Meet Kevin
(12)

19. “YouTube gives me the
confidence to talk face-to-face
with people I never
would offline”
Kevin

20. “I organise my life, make
new friends, research with
my parents and find cool
things to do”
Adam

21. Breaking new ground, or
re-inventing the wheel?

22. 1920s – Local Communities

23. 1960s – Broadcast Nation

24. 2010 – Global Digital Communities

25. There are over 9 billion questions asked on search engines
every month.
So who answered these questions before?

26. Kids used to learn the Dewey Decimal system…
… Now they need to know how to navigate search results

27. www.netshake.net
Ben Nunney
www.theopenbracket.net
http://twitter.com/bennuk