Digital Youth Project: What kids are really doing on-line.

• Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read - Boing Boing

  New research into what/how today's "digital youth" use the internet.

  tags: education, web 2.0, digital youth

  • The conclusions are sane, compassionate, and compelling: in a nutshell, the "serious" stuff we all hope kids will do online (researching papers and so on) are only possible within a framework of "hanging out, messing around and geeking out." That is to say, all the "time-wasting" social stuff kids do online are key to their explorations and education online.

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