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| "WIRED" by Carol Duerksen | ||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 68
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| CONNECT TO THE CONTENT: Hand out the With Magazines or the articles “Thoughts on Technology and Teens” and “Text-aholic.” Read them together as a class. (Take turns, one paragraph at a time.) Then go back to the articles and discuss the following quotes: • I honestly cannot imagine my life without my computer, cell phone, or iPod. —Do your youth agree with that? • Who needs social skills when you have Web skills? —What do your youth think of that statement? • Online forums and blogs can be a great way to keep in contact with friends and meet new people. —Agree or disagree? Why? • This self-contained and truly very antisocial method of communication has robbed this generation of any need to extend beyond oneself. —Agree or disagree? Why? • Texting takes away conversation skills. —Agree or disagree? Why? • Without temperance, these things can control your life. If you can’t set the boundaries yourself, someone needs to set them for you. —Agree or disagree? Why? Do your parents set boundaries? • When we start investing too much of ourselves in these electric adventures, we lose track of reality and skew our priorities. —Comments? • We should make sure that our real-people contact time is at least equal to or greater than that of your ______-alolic time. —Comments? Is that truly an issue? Continued... |
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