The document discusses how media is changing the way people learn at different stages of development according to Piaget's theory. It provides statistics on how much time teens spend on various media like social networking, blogging, and creating their own content. The document concludes that access to participatory media culture functions as a new form of hidden curriculum that influences which youth will succeed or be left behind.

1. How Media is Changing the
Way We Learn
Tammy Stephens

2. Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era
By Margaret Weigel & Katie Heikkinen
(November 2007)
Harvard University
Project Zero

3. Piaget’s Four Levels of Development
Sensorimotor stage: 0-2
Preoperational stage: 2-7
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Formal operational stage: 12+
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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2

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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV

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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV
DVD/ VCR

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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV
DVD/ VCR

8. Preoperational stage: 2-7

9. TV, DVD, VCR
Preoperational stage: 2-7
Computer
Video Games

10. Concrete operational stage: 7-12

11. Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Computer
Word Processing

12. Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Computer
Word Processing
TV (3 hours)
Music (1 hour)
Video Games (1 hour)

13. Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Computer
Word Processing
TV (3 hours)
Music (1 hour)
Video Games (1 hour)
Social Networking

14. Formal operational stage: 12+

15. Hours Spent Per Day on Media

16. What % of Teens:
• Social Network?
• Have their own blog?
• Instant Message (IM)?
• Create content and media to share on the web?
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17. Homework
Instant Messaging
(71%)
Blogging (19%)
Creating Media
(57%)
Social Networking (55%)

18. Learning to Change Video

19. Teens Use of Cell Phones
• 83% use their phones to take pictures.
• 64% share pictures with others.
• 60% play music on their phones.
• 46% play games on their phones.
• 32% exchange videos on their phones.
• 31% exchange instant messages on their phones.
• 27% go online for general purposes on their phones.
• 23% access social network sites on their phones.
• 21% use email on their phones.
• 11% purchase things via their phones.
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21. When they are on a computer, 62% are also using another
form of media and 64% are engaging in multiple computer
activities at the same time.

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Access to this participatory culture functions as a new form of
the hidden curriculum, shaping which youth will succeed and which will be left behind
as they enter school and the workplace (Jenkins et al., 2006).

29. References:
Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of
Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century: McArthur Foundation.
Lenhart, A., Madden, M., & Hitlin, P. (2005). Teens and technology, Youth are leading the transition to a fully
wired and mobile nation: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Nicholas, C. (2008). Is Google making us stupid? Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008.
Rideout, V. J., Elizabeth A. Vandewater, and Ellen A. Wartella. (2003). Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives
of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers: The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Stephen, J. (2006). Everything bad is Good for you: How today's popular culture is actually making us smarter:
Penguin Publisher.
Weigel, M., & Heikkinen, K. (2007). Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era:
Harvard University.
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Contact Information
Tammy Stephens
School Perceptions
tstephens@schoolperceptions.com
http://www.schoolperceptions.com
(800) 644.4300