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    Teens and Sexting

    How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging.

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    Teen Content Creators

    Slides about teen content creators, shown at The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media.

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    Resources and Methodology

    Resources Below are links to research groups cited in this document as well as other sites that present more exhaustive looks at relevant research and resources on distracted driving. The National Safety Council has produced a recent list of relevant research at http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/Distracted_Driving/Pages/KeyResearch.aspx#cognitive.  University of Utah’s Applied Cognition Laboratory’s website lists all their relevant research […]

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    Teens and Distracted Driving

    Twenty-six percent of American teens of driving age say they have texted while driving, and half (48%) of all teens ages 12 to 17 say they’ve been a passenger while a driver has texted behind the wheel.

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    Back to the Future

    Social media is proliferating, inside and outside the classroom. What have we learned and what is on the horizon?

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    The Millennials

    Who are they? How are they different from –and similar to — their parents? How is their moment in history shaping them? And how might they, in turn, reshape America in the decades ahead?

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    II. Generations Apart — and Together

    A Pew Research Center survey released earlier this summer found that 79% of the public says there is a generation gap, defined in the question as “a major difference in the point of view of younger people and older people today.” That’s nearly 20 percentage points higher than in 1979 when the same question was […]

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    In the Blogosphere, the Walkman and the Pitchman Supplant Michael Jackson

    In a week that exposed dramatically different news agendas between social and mainstream media, online commentators shifted away from the King of Pop to focus on a 30-year-old technological breakthrough and the death of an offbeat TV celebrity. The most viewed YouTube video captured an impromptu cell phone snafu.