Resources

**Frontline's __Digital Nation__:** A documentary about the role technology plays in our life today
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ "Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? In //Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier//, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world."

2. **Peering Forward Looking Back** This article discusses learning over time. It starts with the first schools and looks into the future. It discusses digital media era in detail.

3. "**Welcome to the future, workplace challenges: high tech skill are now required**". [] This article discusses the new skill set employers often look for, especifically technological skills. With the downturn in the economy, being computer literate and knowing how to master skills previouly not part of your job description may now make the difference between getting the job or getting left behind.

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 * Is technology dumbing down Japanese?** a NY Times essay discussing the complicated nature of the Japanese language and the negative effect technology, in the form of texting, online writing and publishing, and character check are having on youth ability to write at all.

5. I**s Technology dumbing down kids?** A 30 min. TV panel discussion with experts about the role technology plays in students' lives, the challenges and dangers as well as its benefits in education (video) []

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 * The Brain: How Google Is Making Us Smarter**

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 * New Global Citizens:** A global youth initiative movement where teens can get involved in solving real world problems.

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 * Loneliness - Why It Has Become an Epidemic**

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 * Ostracized by all the machines: Is technology making us lonely?**

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 * Social Isolation and New Technology**

11. http://hc21stcenturyskills.wikispaces.com/ A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, //Wikinomics// challenges our most deeply rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to understand competitiveness in the twenty-first century
 * Wikinomics: How Collaboration Changes Everything** by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. William