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Tuning in Tomorrow's Teenagers
By Glenn McDonald June 27, 2001

Opinion: Whether kids are schooling or cooling out, everything will depend on their connections—electronic connections.

Have you spent any extended amount of time with today's wired teenager? It's unnerving. Pagers beep, beepers page, cell phones play entire movements of major Austrian composers when they ring. Then there are the chat rooms and instant messages and e-mail and personal Web pages.

I recently spent a weekend with my eighth-grade nephew and watched him collaborate on a group assignment using chat and e-mail. He then mined some details from a CD-ROM encyclopedia (footnotes automatically appended) and put it all up on a classroom Web page. In 45 minutes....

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