Comments on: Teens & News: It’s A Disaggregated World http://www.ypulse.com/teens-news-its-a-disaggregated-world Daily news and insight into the Millennial generation for media and marketing professionals Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: anastasia http://www.ypulse.com/teens-news-its-a-disaggregated-world/comment-page-1#comment-795 anastasia Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:22:20 +0000 http://ypulse.com/wordpress/?p=2571#comment-795 Hi Ms. Knox. Thanks so much for commenting - your experience rings very true with the other stories I heard from teachers I interviewed for my book. I hadn't heard of AskMeNow. I'm going to link to it in Ypulse Essentials and add it to a list of sites I'm compiling about how teens are doing their homework on my other blog - Totally Wired. It's a little scary your student admitted to cheating, isn't it? Hi Ms. Knox. Thanks so much for commenting – your experience rings very true with the other stories I heard from teachers I interviewed for my book. I hadn’t heard of AskMeNow. I’m going to link to it in Ypulse Essentials and add it to a list of sites I’m compiling about how teens are doing their homework on my other blog – Totally Wired. It’s a little scary your student admitted to cheating, isn’t it?

]]> By: Ms.Knox http://www.ypulse.com/teens-news-its-a-disaggregated-world/comment-page-1#comment-794 Ms.Knox Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:17:31 +0000 http://ypulse.com/wordpress/?p=2571#comment-794 I was moved to comment on your entry. I am a 7th grade teacher at a small private school in Baltimore. Over the past year I have witnessed this the "disaggregation of news trend" in my classroom. Student's definitions of "sources" are changing as technology changes. In fact, one of my students recently showed me a new service called AskMeNow that he has subscribed to on his cell phone. From what he explained all you do is text a question to ASKME and in minutes you receive an answer via text message. He told me that he refers to AskMeNow for facts about news and world events and even admitted that he has used it to cheat on tests! As far as he's concerned it’s a perfectly legitimate source of information. I guess the adult world is going to have to expand the definition of a "source” if we are to understand the next generation. As an aside I confess I have since subscribed to AskMeNow - and it's pretty cool. I was moved to comment on your entry. I am a 7th grade teacher at a small private school in Baltimore. Over the past year I have witnessed this the “disaggregation of news trend” in my classroom. Student’s definitions of “sources” are changing as technology changes.

In fact, one of my students recently showed me a new service called AskMeNow that he has subscribed to on his cell phone. From what he explained all you do is text a question to ASKME and in minutes you receive an answer via text message. He told me that he refers to AskMeNow for facts about news and world events and even admitted that he has used it to cheat on tests! As far as he’s concerned it’s a perfectly legitimate source of information.

I guess the adult world is going to have to expand the definition of a “source” if we are to understand the next generation. As an aside I confess I have since subscribed to AskMeNow – and it’s pretty cool.

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