Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation

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Summary: Great book about the "net generation"!
Review: This book is a great book to read if you are interested in the net generation and how they will affect our future. He explains how they are going to change society and how they are using new technology already. This book shows what young children do on the Internet and what interests them. It is definately a book everyone must read if they are interested in the younger generation and how things are going to change in our society.

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Summary: N-Geners are Heroes
Review: This book will definitely appeal to young people. The author creates the term 'N-Generation' obstensibly because Generation-Y was owned by another author. The book creates a super youth culture that is underappreciated and misunderstood. If you want to write a book that will appeal to young people and get a good rating on the college campus ... just trash the previous generation and the youth will scramble on board the turnip cart. This book does a disservice to youth and to the previous generation by promoting stereotypes, underscoring obscure opinions, and understating the contributions made by the Boomers.
The author should keep in mind that the N-geners didn't create computers and for the most part, they are clueless when it comes to coding. They do not qualify as experts ... not by a long shot. To encourage youth today to believe that they are experts in computers ... and the people who designed them are not ... is setting them up for real disappointment.
The author's opinions on TV and media are also absurd. He creates a model in which the state of everything that is not N-Gen is fixed and unchanging ... while the opposite is true for his heroes. Perhaps the most convincing argument that can be made against this author's opinions is that a good deal of his computer-based examples are already 'off-the-air'. Moreover, his characterization of the pre-web media era as being fearful of the new technology is way off base ... and today's integration of technologies is proof of this.
The book was written to promote sales rather than good, usable, and thoughtful ideas. Young people will adore this author ... not because he makes a good case ... but because he writes what they want to hear ... and makes them feel the way they want to feel ... like heroes.

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Summary: N-Geners are Heroes
Review: This book will definitely appeal to young people. The author creates the term 'N-Generation' obstensibly because Generation-Y was owned by another author. The book creates a super youth culture that is underappreciated and misunderstood. If you want to write a book that will appeal to young people and get a good rating on the college campus ... just trash the previous generation and the youth will scramble on board the turnip cart. This book does a disservice to youth and to the previous generation by promoting stereotypes, underscoring obscure opinions, and understating the contributions made by the Boomers.
The author should keep in mind that the N-geners didn't create computers and for the most part, they are clueless when it comes to coding. They do not qualify as experts ... not by a long shot. To encourage youth today to believe that they are experts in computers ... and the people who designed them are not ... is setting them up for real disappointment.
The author's opinions on TV and media are also absurd. He creates a model in which the state of everything that is not N-Gen is fixed and unchanging ... while the opposite is true for his heroes. Perhaps the most convincing argument that can be made against this author's opinions is that a good deal of his computer-based examples are already 'off-the-air'. Moreover, his characterization of the pre-web media era as being fearful of the new technology is way off base ... and today's integration of technologies is proof of this.
The book was written to promote sales rather than good, usable, and thoughtful ideas. Young people will adore this author ... not because he makes a good case ... but because he writes what they want to hear ... and makes them feel the way they want to feel ... like heroes.

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Summary: Interesting, although repetitive
Review: This drags a bit, but the pretense is interesting: the grade school kids of today are growing up with computers. They won't fear them, they'll demand more of them. Interesting and thought-provoking, although a bit repetitive at times.

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Summary: Best of the best.
Review: This is absolutely one of the best researched, most interesting, well written, and easy to read books on this topic. A must read for educators of Info-Age youngsters. It will enlighten the pre- Info-Age generations to a whole new world and way of thinking!

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Summary: A slanted perspective on it...
Review: When I first read it years ago, and rereading it today, I find a lot in this book that is insightful and, moreso, true. The author gives a look into the trends, ways, and lives of the N-Gen that is intriguing. Being one of this generation, it is like looking into my past and recalling my childhood.

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Summary: Great Book--or Cyber Hype?
Review: When reading this book you get the feeling that something dramatic is happening...for the first time ever kids know more about something critical to our survival than their parents..Tapscott puts this emerging subculture of computer-smart kids (if you can call them that) under a microscope--and comes up with some surprisingly positive conclusions...he describes how they're learning about life lessons--teamwork, friendships, values- all in their new networked world...His strongest points are on how the new media--the Web, interactive technology--are helping kids who normally struggle with social issues...even the shiest kid can be OK when communicating on the Internet.. and on and on... I like this book, but it often errs on the polyanish side, how kids are creating a brave new world with little downside...For a different view check out Endangered Minds (Healy) and the PC Dads Guide to Becoming a Computer Smart Parent (Ivey)..