Do they really think differently?

Abstract

Our children today are being socialized in a way that is vastly different from their parents. The numbers are overwhelming: over 10,000 hours playing videogames, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones; over 20,000 hours watching TV (a high percentage fast speed MTV), over 500,000 commercials seenall before the kids leave college. And, maybe, at the very most, 5,000 hours of book reading. These are todays Digital Native students. 1