M.I.T. Professor Reconsiders Children's Online Lives

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

A story from the New York Times I found interesting.

Cheers
David
M.I.T. Professor Reconsiders Children's Online Lives
By MARGARET GOLDSBOROUGH

There are few neighborhoods left where children can meet their pals
after school for a friendly game of kickball in a vacant lot. Parents
should accept this reality of contemporary life and understand that
the virtual world can be a boon to today's latchkey child. 

At least that's the opinion of Sherry Turkle, a professor of Science,
Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a self-styled "cyberanalyst." 

Turkle, who is also a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint
Ph.D. in personality psychology and sociology from Harvard, argues
that "parents need to recognize that otherwise, these kids would be
alone. Online communities provide ample, new and exciting spaces for
adolescents to explore identity, be happy or sad, get mad, act out --
all in a relatively consequence-free environment. This is the work of
adolescence."

See http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/technology/14EDUCATION.html for
the full story, and registration is required.

Cheers
David


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