Children, Families and the Internet 2003
Children, Families and the Internet 2003 is a recent survey conducted by Grunwald Associates. It reports that more than 2 million U.S. children, aged 6 to 17 currently have their own web sites. They predict that more than 6 million children could have their own personal sites by 2005. They view this as a way kids today are expressing themselves. They say kids want the tools to build better sites. The survey also revealed that there was dissatisfaction with school internet access. They want more online time.
Grunwald Associates is the research and consulting firm whose surveys on children, family and school use of technology and the Internet are considered the „gold standard‰ of market research on new information services in the home and school markets.
Seems like weblog tools would be a tool that would certainly be easy to use. It also makes me think that we need to really need to double our efforts at getting kids to see reasons for writing, to learn the joy of writing, and to use their voices in responsible ways. We gotta keep on track in getting the message across that it’s not just about getting web space available for children, but it’s also about our teaching and getting our kids doing some good writing and thinking!
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