Young people are content creators

24-November-2005

Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators

Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Teen Content Creators and Consumers:

I picked this report up a couple of weeks ago and didn't bother posting it becuase I thought everyone would be onto it. But it seems to have been largely overlooked. This report is of vast importance both for the future of content creation and for developing pedagogies for e-learning.

"American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.

Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls, are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort. Teen bloggers are more fervent internet users than non-bloggers and have more experience with almost every online activity in the survey."

This is very much at one with what John Seely Brown has written about - young people learning through trail and error - through making and creating - what he calls bricolage.

And it supports my long held assertion that 'learning objects' or learning content will be created largely by learners - not teachers or content developers - in the future. As learners increasingly create content - through repurposing content produced by any learners - it is possible to envisage an ecology of content creation and sharing.

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Graham Attwell; 24-November-2005 14:06:11;