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Teens ignoring real world issues - thestar.com - 2 views

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shared by olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
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      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      This article is related to my project because it talks about how teenagers are not aware of their surroundings, instead they are more focused on facebook, MSN. It also shows an example of how teachers could help teens become more aware by doing simple things in school. As my topic is about apathy and teens being unaware, this article helps a lot.
  • The benefits of being socially aware are endless. Everything from becoming an informed voter to donating to a needy cause is influenced by one's consciousness of current affairs
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      By being socially aware, teenagers can have so many more benefits compared to if they are not aware of their surroundings. Being aware can help us in the future and now by, as they say in the article, becoming an informed voter for example.
  • Joseph Miceli, a high school religion teacher, says that discussing current events within the standard school curriculum is "a very practical and effective way of making learning more interesting and real." Although many teachers do an excellent job of making current events relevant in the classroom, Miceli questions whether or not it is consistently used within all subject areas.
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      Although teachers are very good at their job, Joseph Miceli wonders if teachers are teaching us enough about current events going on around us. If certain teachers would start to put more emphasis on this subject, teenagers would maybe begin to learn a bit more about their surroundings.
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  • 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.
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      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      This statement here represents perfectly our topic. It is a fact, teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news and it is'nt necessarily a good thing. They now have more "important" priorities in their life such as facebook, texting , being with their friends etc... that they don't take the time to see what is happening around the world. Basic knowledge, and some teenagers don't even know stuff about their own country.
  • "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.
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      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      Technology plays a huge role in today's generation... and I believe that it could be the cause as to why teenagers are not as aware of their surroundings now. They are more occupied in the latest web invention instead of simply taking 10 minutes of their time to Google stuff about world issues.
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Not all teens mean to be ungracious - they are just unaware - 2 views

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  • Not all teens mean to be ungracious - they are just unaware
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      olivia amiel on 08 Oct 10
       
      I think what this means is that teenagers are unaware of their surroundings, and sometimes that can lead to an ungracious attitude towards others and their environment
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Thomas Sutcliffe: British teens aren't cultural cretins - Thomas Sutcliffe, Columnists ... - 3 views

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  • The reaction to this, where there was a reaction at all, was to tut over the insularity of our teenagers
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      olivia amiel on 06 Oct 10
       
      People are insulted that teenagers are not as globally aware of their surroundings as they should be and that is why Mira and I chose to do this project. We feel it is important for teenagers to be more aware.
  • The finding seemed to be reinforced by another survey, which showed that a third of British respondents believed that Mount Everest was in Europe. This is not the kind of thing we're meant to be bad at.
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      olivia amiel on 06 Oct 10
       
      This is an example of an answer that we could get from teenagers to one of our questions on our quiz for our project. Although this talks only about British responders, it can have the same result for Canadians or anyone else.
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the powerful impact of sexting - 1 views

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shared by olivia amiel on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • olivia amiel on 03 Sep 10
     
    this is about how sexting can affect teens... also a mini blog regarding how people see this as a social influence
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