HOW HYPERCONNECTIVITY EFFECTS YOUNG PEOPLE?

Young people are growing up in a world that offers them instant access nearly everywhere to nearly the entirety of human knowledge, with incredible opportunities to hyperconnect, create and collaborate. While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young people’s abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information. Hyperconnected youth will reject deep engagement with people, they will lack critical thinkHOW HYPERCONNECTIVITY EFFECTS YOUNG PEOPLE? Young people are growing up in a world that offers them instant access nearly everywhere to nearly the entirety of human knowledge, with incredible opportunities to hyperconnect, create and collaborate. While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young people’s abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information. Hyperconnected youth will reject deep engagement with people, they will lack critical thinking skills and face-to-face social skills, seeking instead instant gratification and depending on mobile devices to function.rnYes, there are some major downsides to relying on the Internet as our "external brain," including the desire for instant gratification, and the increased chances of making quick, shallow choices. rnhyperconnectedness will have a positive impact, suggesting a stronger ability to multitask, cycle through personal- and work-related tasks and become more adept at finding answers to deep questions. These people - who are mostly millenials - will be able to tap into the Internet's greater knowledge base, accessing more information and working together to do so via crowdsourcing. Teens and adults who grew up playing video games “will have lasting problems with focus and attention,” They find distraction while working, distraction while driving and distraction while talking to the neighbors. Parents and teachers will have to invest major time and efforts into solving this issue by helping young people learn to appreciate quiet contemplation without their mobile devices. “All in all, I think the negative side effects can be healed”. Most-desired life skills for young people in 2020. rnThe ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy).rnSynthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).rnBeing strategically future-minded.rnThe ability to concentrate.rnThe ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Some recent indicators: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the hyper connect social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.rnWhere will we be in 2020? some sampling of the predictions are:- •The environment itself will be full of data that can be retrieved almost effortlessly, and it will be arrayed in ways to help people navigate their lives. • Teen brains are being rewired to adapt to the new information-processing skills they will need to survive in this environment. • Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves,” .rning skills and face-to-face social skills, seeking instead instant gratification and depending on mobile devices to function.rnYes, there are some major downsides to relying on the Internet as our "external brain," including the desire for instant gratification, and the increased chances of making quick, shallow choices. rnhyperconnectedness will have a positive impact, suggesting a stronger ability to multitask, cycle through personal- and work-related tasks and become more adept at finding answers to deep questions. These people - who are mostly millenials - will be able to tap into the Internet's greater knowledge base, accessing more information and working together to do so via crowdsourcing. Teens and adults who grew up playing video games “will have lasting problems with focus and attention,” They find distraction while working, distraction while driving and distraction while talking to the neighbors. Parents and teachers will have to invest major time and efforts into solving this issue by helping young people learn to appreciate quiet contemplation without their mobile devices. “All in all, I think the negative side effects can be healed”. Most-desired life skills for young people in 2020. rnThe ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy).rnSynthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).rnBeing strategically future-minded.rnThe ability to concentrate.rnThe ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Some recent indicators: • Nearly 20 million ofHOW HYPERCONNECTIVITY EFFECTS YOUNG PEOPLE? Young people are growing up in a world that offers them instant access nearly everywhere to nearly the entirety of human knowledge, with incredible opportunities to hyperconnect, create and collaborate. While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young people’s abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information. Hyperconnected youth will reject deep engagement with people, they will lack critical thinking skills and face-to-face social skills, seeking instead instant gratification and depending on mobile devices to function.rnYes, there are some major downsides to relying on the Internet as our "external brain," including the desire for instant gratification, and the increased chances of making quick, shallow choices. rnhyperconnectedness will have a positive impact, suggesting a stronger ability to multitask, cycle through personal- and work-related tasks and become more adept at finding answers to deep questions. These people - who are mostly millenials - will be able to tap into the Internet's greater knowledge base, accessing more information and working together to do so via crowdsourcing. Teens and adults who grew up playing video games “will have lasting problems with focus and attention,” They find distraction while working, distraction while driving and distraction while talking to the neighbors. Parents and teachers will have to invest major time and efforts into solving this issue by helping young people learn to appreciate quiet contemplation without their mobile devices. “All in all, I think the negative side effects can be healed”. Most-desired life skills for young people in 2020. rnThe ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discHOW HYPERCONNECTIVITY EFFECTS YOUNG PEOPLE? Young people are growing up in a world that offers them instant access nearly everywhere to nearly the entirety of human knowledge, with incredible opportunities to hyperconnect, create and collaborate. While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young people’s abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information. Hyperconnected youth will reject deep engagement with people, they will lack critical thinking skills and face-to-face social skills, seeking instead instant gratification and depending on mobile devices to function.rnYes, there are some major downsides to relying on the Internet as our "external brain," including the desire for instant gratification, and the increased chances of making quick, shallow choices. rnhyperconnectedness will have a positive impact, suggesting a stronger ability to multitask, cycle through personal- and work-related tasks and become more adept at finding answers to deep questions. These people - who are mostly millenials - will be able to tap into the Internet's greater knowledge base, accessing more information and working together to do so via crowdsourcing. Teens and adults who grew up playing video games “will have lasting problems with focus and attention,” They find distraction while working, distraction while driving and distraction while talking to the neighbors. Parents and teachers will have to invest major time and efforts into solving this issue by helping young people learn to appreciate quiet contemplation without their mobile devices. “All in all, I think the negative side effects can be healed”. Most-desired life skilHOW HYPERCONNECTIVITY EFFECTS YOUNG PEOPLE? Young people are growing up in a world that offers them instant access nearly everywhere to nearly the entirety of human knowledge, with incredible opportunities to hyperconnect, create and collaborate. While most of the survey participants see this as mostly positive, some said they are already witnessing deficiencies in young people’s abilities to focus their attention, be patient and think deeply. Some experts expressed concerns that trends are leading to a future in which most people become shallow consumers of information. Hyperconnected youth will reject deep engagement with people, they will lack critical thinking skills and face-to-face social skills, seeking instead instant gratification and depending on mobile devices to function.rnYes, there are some major downsides to relying on the Internet as our "external brain," including the desire for instant gratification, and the increased chances of making quick, shallow choices. rnhyperconnectedness will have a positive impact, suggesting a stronger ability to multitask, cycle through personal- and work-related tasks and become more adept at finding answers to deep questions. These people - who are mostly millenials - will be able to tap into the Internet's greater knowledge base, accessing more information and working together to do so via crowdsourcing. Teens and adults who grew up playing video games “will have lasting problems with focus and attention,” They find distraction while working, distraction while driving and distraction while talking to the neighbors. Parents and teachers will have to invest major time and efforts into solving this issue by helping young people learn to appreciate quiet contemplation without their mobile devices. “All in all, I think the negative side effects can be healed”. Most-desired life skills for young people in 2020. rnThe ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy).rnSynthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).rnBeing strategically future-minded.rnThe ability to concentrate.rnThe ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Some recent indicators: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the hyper connect social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.rnWhere will we be in 2020? some sampling of the predictions are:- •The environment itself will be full of data that can be retrieved almost effortlessly, and it will be arrayed in ways to help people navigate their lives. • Teen brains are being rewired to adapt to the new information-processing skills they will need to survive in this environment. • Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves,” .rnls for young people in 2020. rnThe ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy).rnSynthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).rnBeing strategically future-minded.rnThe ability to concentrate.rnThe ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Some recent indicators: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the hyper connect social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.rnWhere will we be in 2020? some sampling of the predictions are:- •The environment itself will be full of data that can be retrieved almost effortlessly, and it will be arrayed in ways to help people navigate their lives. • Teen brains are being rewired to adapt to the new information-processing skills they will need to survive in this environment. • Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves,” .rnern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy).rnSynthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).rnBeing strategically future-minded.rnThe ability to concentrate.rnThe ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Some recent indicators: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the hyper connect social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.rnWhere will we be in 2020? some sampling of the predictions are:- •The environment itself will be full of data that can be retrieved almost effortlessly, and it will be arrayed in ways to help people navigate their lives. • Teen brains are being rewired to adapt to the new information-processing skills they will need to survive in this environment. • Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves,” . the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. • There are more than 800 million people now signed up for the hyper connect social network Facebook; they spend 700 billion minutes using Facebook each month, and they install more than 20 million apps every day. Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth.rnWhere will we be in 2020? some sampling of the predictions are:- •The environment itself will be full of data that can be retrieved almost effortlessly, and it will be arrayed in ways to help people navigate their lives. • Teen brains are being rewired to adapt to the new information-processing skills they will need to survive in this environment. • Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves,” .