Anastasia at Ypulse shares some stats from Don Tapscott’s New Paradigm about the Net Generation.

• They want the internet
• – In the U.S., 77 percent of Net Geners said they could live without
  TV. Only 23 percent said they could live without the Internet.
• They are content creators
• – 64 percent of U.S. Net Geners regularly add or change things
  online…this percentage shot up to 95 percent of Indian Net Geners and
  94 percent of Chinese.

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I love reading her stuff, and I recently watched the interview Tapscott did at Google Authors. Now I want to go back to his site and read more.

Check this out, and be sure to click on Classroom Activities, too.

Wes Fryer pointed to this article and chart from Business Week showing who’s doing what online. Take a look at the 12-17-year-old age group! The highest percentage use/join social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc). I hope we can discuss ways to use this interest or at least become aware of what they are doing and how it affects their online experience.

A really neat app that lets you search for timelines on many topics. Here’s one on the history of AIDS epidemic.

Lots of great stuff here