8 Traits of Digital Kids
Over the next few days I’m going to talk about a portion of the breakout that I’ve prepared on Digital Kids. While all 8 traits come from a book called “Grown up Digital” by Don Tapscott. It’s a great read for anyone involved in either Children’s Ministry or Student Ministry and I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in how media and technology are affecting our youngest generations.
Sit tight and we’ll get rolling pretty soon!
It's amazing to me that in a few years middle school kids will have always lived with the internet, instant messaging, cell phones, social networking, in a post-Columbine, post-9/11 America (I say middle school because I do middle school/high school ministry). Certainly there is a need to know what a "Digital Kid" is.
The PBS documentary "Growing Up Online" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonlin... begins to shed some light on this evolving generation.