Submitted by nabeth.thierry on Mon, 2012-06-04 11:01

Interesting article about a new form of "Digital divide":
This is not about people not having access to technologies, it is what they are doing about it.

Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era
May 29, 2012, The New York Time
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-...

Extract:
“Despite the educational potential of computers, the reality is that their use for education or meaningful content creation is minuscule compared to their use for pure entertainment,” said Vicky Rideout, author of the decade-long Kaiser study. “Instead of closing the achievement gap, they’re widening the time-wasting gap.”

Is there a way that we can help to address this issue?
Via education? It may also mean about educating the parents.

Group audience:

Jobs and skills

Comments

I like the term coined by

Submitted by stylianosm on Thu, 2012-06-07 21:06

I like the term coined by Howard Rheingold to describe this challenge; Infotention - a combination of attentional discipline and information-handling tools -- a method for turning information overload into knowledge navigation.

Handling 'temptations' is critical in the world of bytes as well in the realm of atoms.

I see it as an integral component / e-skill of a 21st digital literate person.