The document discusses the benefits of technology and how daily exposure to devices like computers and phones can stimulate brain development by strengthening neural connections. It also notes that the current technological revolution is creating an intellectual revolution that is faster and better than previous changes. The document suggests that what older generations believe may not apply to new generations, especially regarding traditional value systems, due to changes created by the information age.

3.  There are positive benefits derived from the use of
information technology or digital resources and these
counterbalance possible negative effects of
technology on children.
 Daily exposure to high technology-personal
computers, video game gadgets, cell phones,
Internet search sites-stimulates the brain by
strengthening and creating neural circuits.
 A current technological revolution is creating an
intellectual revolution, faster and better than ever
before.

4.  first two years of susceptible
minds,
 Six years of acquiring
communication skills
 Teenage years of transition
concrete thinking and adult
years of abstract thinking and
reasoning

8. In small groups, discuss and report:
1. How many in the group think they
belong to the technology or digital
generation?
2. How many feel they should support and
stride along the information technology
revolution?
3. Present ideas on how to balance
“butterfly-like” multitasking skills with
single-task skills to accomplish specific
tasks.

9. Parents 30 Years New Millennial Generation
Media/technologies available
Social Relationships
Beliefs or Values
New Technologies
New Social Relationships
New Beliefs or Values

12.  The new network of instantaneous communication is
global, overcoming borders between countries and
continents.
 Much of what elders believe may not be applicable
anymore to the new generation, especially along
matters of traditional value system.
 Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shows how the
information age has begun to create many cultural
changes in the family, societies, business,
governments such as what he calls the throw-away
society, modular man, kinetic image, scientific
trajectory, fractured family, surfeit of sub-cults,
psychological dimension , etc.

15. Read and write a one-paragraph
essay of one aspect of radical
changes in Alvin Toffler’s book Future
Shock . Follow this with a group work
and reporting through a 3-minute
power-point or video presentation.