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incessant communication

does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development

solipsistic,

"being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,

ubiquitous

requires literacy

Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.

we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.

Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.

Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes

Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility

education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.

real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems

that all knowledge is social.

When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles

multiple frames of reference

where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.

we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar

answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.

Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth

f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.

"personal learning network,"

Even thoug

Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions

Strategy and anticipation

Developing reading and math skills

Perseverance

Memory                o    Reasoned judgments               

Estimating skills                o    Inductive reasoning and hypothesis testing

Mapping

Pattern recognition

Teamwork and cooperation when played with others

Simulation, real world skills

Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.  Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.   Video games do not exercise your kid’s imaginative thinking.  Using imagination may be important in developing creativity.   Some video games teach kids the wrong values.  Violent behavior, vengeance and aggression are rewarded.  Negotiating and other nonviolent solutions are often not options.  Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.    Games can confuse reality and fantasy. Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. Studies have shown that the more time a kid spends playing video games, the poorer is his performance in school.  (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004) Video games may also have bad effects on some children’s health, including obesity, video-induced seizures. and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online, your kid can pick up bad language and behavior from other people, and may make your kid vulnerable to online dangers.

full 65 percent of people went all the way.

Until they emerged from the lab, the participants didn’t know that the shocks weren’t real,

It’s a phenomenon that’s been used to explain atrocities from the Holocaust to the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century.

It’s inspired songs by Peter Gabriel (lyrics: “We do what we’re told/We do what we’re told/Told to do”

Greed depends on the absence of sympathy, and it benefits from ignorance about a social problem. Apathy can be reduced if there is less ignorance and less greed. Ignorance is reinforced by apathy, since apathetic folks don't care to obtain the knowledge which would reduce their apathy. Greed exploits the ignorance of the majority who do not have sufficient sympathy to counter the greedy faction.

Greed

Uttering a slogan does no good unless it arouses sympathy.

but many questions still remain. "What am I going to do with my life," and "Should I go to college or take a job."

There are many factors involved in a teenager forming that self-image or self-ideal.

rough adolescen

inherited traits

two ways

Families account for one of the largest areas of impact

structure and content of the values espoused by the family

young person may reject all or part of the parental value system

look around to replace it with one of their own

physical traits of the individual

Do they consider themselves too short or fat?

It would appear from autobiographical material, that the adolescent not only is acutely aware of every physical variation from his concept of what is normal or beautiful or handsome, but that is perhaps his most frequent frustration

physical deviation can be of great concern

to any young person

positive or negative

Anywhere that teens spend a large percentage of their time

spiritual life

Social and economic factors, geographic location, rebellion, television, movies, music, radio, books, hobbies, clubs, death of loved ones, divorce, remarriage, heroes, role models, and many more.

many other factors

re they popular, artistic, or athletic.

If they are seen by their peers as

he relationship between the teachers, coaches, and administrative personnel

Relationships with peers

Any group that teens belong, or adhere to, will affect their development of identity

unfortunately teenagers tend to attempt to emulate those in the public eye whom they view as successful

The unfortunate thing about this is that the media tends to glorify and report on those people who are not good role models.

Let’s face it, most teenagers do not want to imitate their parents

I simply wanted something different

my teenage view of success was to not be my parents,

I simply wanted to do better than what I viewed my parents life to be.

most parents goal too

We tend to forget that they are going through an identity crisis, that they are trying to figure out who they are and how they are going to make it in the adult world. What do they want to be, should they go to college, how will they pay for college …

Is it any wonder that suicides are higher among teens than any other age group?

“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms” - Harrison Ford (American Actor)

governments,

media

family

Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.

deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;

promotes solidarit

clear contrasting point of comparison

stimulates social change.

Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.

But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.

s homosexuality deviant or normal?”

ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges

shifting values.

ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.

The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.

Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.

Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time

Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws

Stigma

Conformity

“random act of senseless kindness”

legal and normal

complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.

normal crime.

iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior

issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.

remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)

disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society

Labeling Theory claims

majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%

Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.

White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.

Street Crimes are crimes

Organized Crime

Hate Crimes

Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.

Look at the diagram below.

Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?

Values also vary between groups

An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.

Attachments

Commitment

Involvement

Belief

Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior

Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.

Although today's youth are more media savvy than ever before, there seems to be a missing link within the information chain. From soldiers' deaths in the Middle East to fundraising events in their own community, today's teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news.

"Students would rather spend hours on social-networking sites like Facebook and chatting on instant messengers like MSN than searching Google for important world issues," says Clarke.