It is an hour long documentary on different high school seniors and the world they live in on the internet that their parents are not a part of. I know I just said an hour but the movie is actually very interesting and you probably will not even realize that an hour has gone by.
This movie brought up really interesting issues in the social networking of our students. I found a lot of parallels between this movie and the adolescent development class that I took. Increasingly adolescents try and put on different personalities. The internet via Facebook, blogging, and my space allows these students to take on these different roles, while their parents don't know about them.
After watching the film, I discussed the issues with a few of my friends that are teachers now. They have also watched this film. We discussed the possible solutions to this problem. Being part of this younger generation we understood the need for these students to begin feeling independent of their parents and making those steps but we also saw the points made by parents that cyber bulling takes place, you limit your studying and social skills.
I think this also brings up a good point is that these students are captivated by this type of technology. It made me think about as a teacher then how am I going to get these students interested in my field of study when they have these media images flying at them?
The last thing I did was look at an article by David A. Bednar entitled "Things as they Really Are." I found this really interesting. The main point of his article was to examine the difference between the real and virtual world. It made me realize how many times we begin to live in a virtual world.
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