Blurring Boundaries in the Lives of Generation @

While educators look for ways to incorporate a powerful learning medium into their practice, millions of youth are growing up in an online frontier where the social and legal rules haven’t been written yet. At the same time, we are seeing a trend in the increasing use of surveillance technologies—whether it be cameras, fingerprints, or DNA databases—both at home and at school.

Privacy vs. connectivity; surveillance vs. security—the long term implications of these trade-offs can only be imagined. But the message is clear that social, legal and educational institutions are having a hard time setting boundaries between what is acceptable and what is not.

This issue of OS/OS explores some of the issues arising out of the new technologies enveloping the daily lives of youth, especially in the education context. It’s a whole new world for Generation @.

Attachments

OS/OS Summer 2008: Contents
OS/OS Summer 2008: Branding the University
OS/OS Summer 2008: International Issues
OS/OS Summer 2008: Internet Social Networking in Young Women’s Everyday Lives
OS/OS Summer 2008: Facebook: Beyond Friends
OS/OS Summer 2008: Surveillance 2.0
OS/OS Summer 2008: Canadian Curriculum Spaces for Issues of Online Privacy
OS/OS Summer 2008: Techno-tonomy
OS/OS Summer 2008: Using Web 2.0 for Education Programs on Global Citizenship
OS/OS Summer 2008: Technology & Education Roundup
OS/OS Summer 2008: Editorial
OS/OS Summer 2008: Changing Technology Changes Society
OS/OS Summer 2008: Renegotiating School Boundaries in the Age of Social Networking
OS/OS Summer 2008: Bullying in the Digital Age
OS/OS Summer 2008: Playing Games