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Frontline: Growing Up Online

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One of the most informative videos that deals with the positive and negative activity online. A great video to show young adults about the potential dangers as well. It is viewable online in a small viewer box at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/. Topics covered: Cyber Bullying, Child Preditors, Parent Involvement, socializing, and more.

I have shared this DVD with 18 year-old students (French students learning English) and they all wrote passionate essays after viewing it. These essays should be read by their parents for the parents could learn something about their children. Some of the students have had computers since they were 5 years old. They have literally "grown up" online. The idea of parental control was repugnant to them. Even at a younger age, they could not be so easily duped (by predators, etc.) They found the parents in this DVD were over-exaggerating their concerns. They were insulted to think that parents would try and control their (the youth's) internet access, since the internet is their (the children's) world - and the parents know little about the Net. How dare the parents try and control something they know little about. Almost all students said this.
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- Ronald Heydon

The Frontline series tackles controversial issues and this one is no exception. I have purchased several titles from this series for the library. They may not be the most popular DVDs here, but for those who like non-fiction, newsworthy movies, or who want to watch something about a particular topic, they are great!

I'm a teacher and found this to be useful in helping my students understand how their generation is different from those before

I have shown this to my high school classes as part of expository and persuasive units of study in high school English. It provides a wide variety of perspectives regarding use of the internet, with a focus on social networking. Just a few of the topics explored are online bullying, implications of adapting online identities and personas, susceptibility to sexual predators, issues of personal privacy and parental censorship, and legal consequences of sending sexually explicit material to friends over the internet (including by phone). The program is divided into several shorter segments which deal with different issues, making it easy to focus on one issue at a time for analysis and discussion in a classroom setting. It is well-documented with personal interviews and a wide range of factual evidence, enhancing its value in studying authenticy and accuracy of research.

For parents who want to know more about the ways in which young people participate in and are affected by social networking on the internet, this program is an eye-opener. Many interviews are conducted with parents who had no idea what their children were involved in until a crisis occurred.

I had seen excerpts of this video on U-tube and needed to get a copy. Viewed it with friends and all were moved to tears.

I received this DVD ; everything OK, but so far I haven't been able to watch it because of the difference in regions. I hope my kids will help me solving this problem.

I like Frontline, I really do.

But I can't work up any concern for the "dangers" of internet culture. Two reasons: 1.) It is not going to "go away" or be "changed" no matter how "sincerely concerned" some people are about it and 2.) A society of kids on the internet can't be less than 500% of an improvement over a society of kids watching television.