Stateline 1102 Master Script

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THE CUTTING EDGE OF JUST A FEW YEARS AGO IS NOW THE STUFF OF MUSEUMS AND HISTORY BOOKS.  TODAY'S HIGH TECH FITS IN THE PALM OF A HAND.  AND AS OFTEN AS NOT IT'S THE HAND OF A CHILD.

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MARIE POOL:  "Technology is something thats impacting their lives today and is going to continue to do that the rest of their lives."

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TECHNOLOGY IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING.  SOME WORRY THE MULTITASKING GENERATION ISN'T LEARNING TO CONCENTRATE ON ONE THING AT A TIME.  OTHER CONCERNS ARE PURELY FINANCIAL.

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THERESA CULLEN:  "when you are thinking about kids using technology there are problems with kids, maybe texting too much. or you hear about the kid who ran up the thousand dollar text bill."

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WHAT ADULT HASN'T BEEN LEFT IN THE DUST BY A KID WITH THE LATEST COMPUTER, CELLPHONE OR VIDEO GAME?  THIS EDITION OF STATELINE SURVEYS THE LANDSCAPE OF TECHNOLOGY ASKS THE QUESTION WE'VE ALL ASKED OURSELVES AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, "ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A TEN-YEAR-OLD?"

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40 years ago the TV was the technical titan of our homes, nobody owned a computer. They were big, bulky and took up entire rooms filled with guys wearing pocket protectors.

Oh how things have changed.  When we weren't looking computers crept into every corner of our little lives. They changed the way we shop, the way we get our information, and how we keep in touch with each other.

Just think, the cell phone in your pocket has 25 times the computing power the Apollo Astronauts took to the moon.

And technical wonders just keep on coming, what seemed impossible yesterday is now available...and can be ordered...online.

Look for the most tech-savvy people in the house and chances are they're the kids.  No one swims as deep in the technical sea as those who were born to a life of laptops and the world wide web.

High School students today have never known a time without computers...a group interested in the technology that will power the future began by studying the past.

Edgar Longhofer

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This Kirkwood windmill, this made the land run in 1893 to Freedom, Oklahoma.

The windmill museum in Shattuck is home to cutting edge technology of the 19^th century.

Edgar Longhofer

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This country in a way wouldn't have been here if it weren't for windmills. That's how they got their water.

Dick Kurtz

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Look at the big, the big wind farms that's coming on now. This design really is just history repeating itself.

Edgar Longhofer

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You see the wind charger on top of the house? That's another way they used to get electricity. In older days I can still remember my Dad parking the car beside the house to charge the battery so we could have the radio.

Dick Kurtz

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All we're doing here is lifting a heavy weight, which would be the water...pretty heavy. On ours we're concerned with speed because speed relates into voltage for us. So as we are beginning to design what we look at here is lots of blades, lots of wind captures, but we got all that drag.

And cutting that drag is the kids main concern. Energy camp students at Southwestern Oklahoma State University are trying to turn yesterdays pump into power that will drive the next century.

Martin Koch

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I like working with the windmills because I think it's going to be a future technology.

Dick Kurtz

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The class is a little bit of an aerodynamic class, we sneak that in. The designs of the blades are very much like an airplane wing. And we try to explain the principal of lift which is what causes the motion of the blades and we get the blades to turn.

Frank White

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We got a lot of insight as to what it takes to generate electricity.

Frank White

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They learned what it takes to hold the thing up, how high it is, how much power it generates.

Joshua Turnbull

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We're experimenting with our blade design to try and get our output on our volts higher.

Joshua Turnbull

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We're thinking that these wider ones will catch more wind and let it spin faster...thus creating more voltage.

Heather Campbell

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We just got through making these huge blades and we decided we needed a littler sized one for the inside part. So I think we got a step ahead of ourselves doing the outside ones first. We're trying to do the same design, but just cut it down a little bit in size.

Dick Kurtz

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One of the big, big advantages I see is the information that's available to these kids. We encourage them to go on the internet and look for these blade designs, what works and what doesn't work and they use that in a very positive way to design the blades they use for their models.

Arthur Bulin

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Technology like this is the way of the future, so the faster you start learning this stuff the easier it will be to pick up on and be able to do this stuff right now. In 30 years when we're doing this it could be a good paying job.

Dick Kurtz

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Our industry out here in western Oklahoma is very much motivated by the industry of energy. That being oil, gas and now newest form is wind energy as you can tell by the windmills out in our area.

Dick Kurtz

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We entirely encourage them to be the one that discovers a way to store this energy that these plants are generating.

Madeline Baugher

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These kids give up a week of their summer, and so they are here because they are interested in learning new things.

It's camp, but the teens trade archery and horseback riding for excel spreadsheets and programming robots.

Meghna Singh

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Well I guess it is pretty simple right now because we are not doing a very complex program. You are just making the robot go forward and backwards.

Madeline Baugher

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A lot of what you're learning is how to solve problems. You have to be able to look at you're program and, "Does it work like I expect it to...or does it not?"

Meghna Singh

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At one point you are kind of making it turn a bit. So the programs are pretty simple so right now it is pretty easy to catch onto. But as we get further into the lessons we will see how it goes.

Madeline Baugher

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And then tomorrow night you're going to have to write a program to make the robot run on the maze.

Madeline

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Alright, let's run the robot on the maze.

Madeline Baugher

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Got to go straight, then he's got to turn...and when he finishes he has to make a 360-degree victory turn.

Dick Kurtz

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The engineers out there informed us that within the years to come they're also going to be placing solar in the area out here. They're doing some experimenting right now. So next year's camp we hope to incorporate some solar energy into it as well.

Dick Kurtz

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We want to expand right along with that in hopes that someone may come up with the perfect solar cell.

Frank White

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Energy, we got to be the people who develop the next source of energy because if we wait for somebody else to develop it we may be too late.

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Madeline Baugher

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The internet of course was a large change for everyone, there's so much information available on the internet that was not available to people before.

Damon Ray

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It helps me a lot in like history, and social studies. Because I can get like Google maps or something and I just look stuff up. And it tells me.

Damon Ray

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It takes forever to take this huge gigantic book and look up something. You type it in on Google and it is there.

The machine that puts the world at our fingertips also opens our home to everything from cyber bullies to online predators.

Teresa Cullen

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We don't let them go to the skateboard park without knee pads and a helmet because it is a dangerous place. The same thing is true with the internet, there are lots of good things to do there but it does need some supervision.

Melanie Nelson

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I think the first thing would be to be involved understand what your child is involved in. if there is texting you need to learn how to text yourself, If it is Facebook you need to become familiar with Facebook. Ideally you will set up a profile for yourself. So that you can friend your child and then know what they are posting. And be part of what they are doing. Ask then about it. Who did you see on Facebook today what are they talking about who did you text today who texted you.

Teresa Cullen

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The term that they use is digital citizenship. How we prepare them in order to be ethical in their use of computers.

Teresa Cullen

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Just because you can get the music for free should you? And just because you can have a picture that someone took, or your cell phone can take a picture of someone you're going to bully them. Or you can make up a fake e-mail account in order to send some sort of harassing message. Is that appropriate behavior?

Melanie Nelson

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All of those things have changed the way that people interact, this has too. I think that what we will find is that there is good out comes from it and then there is negative outcomes from it. I think that there will be both.

Any parent who has lost an important file knows the humiliation of asking their kid to retrieve it. So how did the tables turn?

Jacque Kennedye

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Probably just because we are so more used to it. Things these days like you get a new phone you can just figure out right away it is just kind of how we have adapted into this new lifestyle. It is just easy for us it kind of clicks with us. With old people, they are just not used to that kind of thing and I just think it is harder for them to figure it out.

It was...Old people...who invented the technology, it's just that kids are more comfortable with it.

Melanie Nelson

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Certainly the fact that this is something that they have been exposed to their whole lives. They can incorporate that at a much younger age. That helps them understand it on a much different level. It makes better sense to them of how things work and connections like that can be made.

Teresa Cullen

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There was a study done several years ago by the Pew foundation. / They ask kids how they were using technology and how technology was in there lives. And what they said is that they found that the adults in their lives were trying to force them to do things in old fashioned ways. At school there were block programs that blocked them from websites that they used to do their homework. They kind of said hey we can do our home work a lot faster at home because we can use the internet the way we want to.

Melanie Nelson

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So the ramifications for them making a mistake are going to be less in their eyes than an adult who is thinking I am going to have to take this somewhere and get somebody who can fix this for me.

Teresa Cullen

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When you are thinking about kids using technology there are problems with kids, maybe texting too much. Or you hear about the kid who ran up the thousand dollar text bill with two thousand texts.

Jacque Kennedye

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I think an unlimited plan is only like ten bucks a month so. And you can send as many as you want.

Jacque and Camilla are BFF's...that's best friends forever in text talk.  They MSG all their FRND's until they LOL.

Jacque Kennedye

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I started texting probably around my seventh grade year. That was kind of when my friends started getting phones.

For any parent of a teen today the unlimited text package is the answer to a prayer.

Camilla Lang

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I actually hit one time 1800 in a month. That was in the summertime last year. I think it was like in August or something. Then once school started I don't text during school.

Jacque Kennedye

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Probably.. Definitely over a hundred a day. Maybe two hundred. It just depends.

Jacque Kennedye

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On average my friends probably send about two hundred or three hundred a day. So I am actually less than them.

Jacque Kennedye

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And nobody really did it until at least seventh or eight grade year. Then High school everybody does it. It is just casual.

Camilla Lang

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I talk about my day like what are you doing tomorrow. Things like that what happened over the weekend?

Jacque Kennedye

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It is also kind of the thing to do like even if you are sitting right next to a friend you will find yourself texting them because it is funny. Um you know fights happen, friendships start, just about anything can happen over text.

Text Nat Sound

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Oh I just got a message that practice is canceled tonight.

Good it is too hot for it.

I know I did not want to go.

Is it rescheduled?

Let me see.

Yeah, it says that we have practice tomorrow instead.

Marie Pool

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I personally feel that cell phones are one of the biggest deterrents to education for today's child. And that's simply because they will not turn off their cell phones.

Jacque Kennedye

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Well we are not supposed to text in school.

Camilla Lang

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Most people text but it is a lot harder because you have to hide it.

Camilla Lang

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I have gotten my phone taken away. I actually wasn't texting. I just took my phone and a teacher saw it. So they took it away but. I have never been caught texting in class.

Marie Pool

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Texting...that holding your phone like this and not paying attention to what's going on in class, you're losing valuable learning time.

Camilla Lang

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You are actually not allowed to have your phone at all on the campus. You are not allowed to bring it too school. They used to have it where you just keep it in your locker off and then at the end of the day you can turn it on but now they have changed it since last year.

Text Nat  Sd

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Look what Rory Just did.

Oh my gosh!

Jacque Kennedye

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At home I am not supposed to text at the dinner table. I usually don't text during any kind of family time. Or I do it secretly so no one can see.

Jacque Kennedye

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My dad would probably just say that is rude put it away I am trying to have a conversation with you. Or we are trying to have family time. I don't argue I just put it away.

Not every parent understands what's being said. Maybe that's because it's written in a language invented by the kids.

Jacque Kennedye

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It is definitely not what you would type in a paper. It is like um, there is a lot of abbreviation. It is like typical LoL, Like Got to go just simple things like that. You want to shorten every thing because. /

Jacque

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You can only have 160 characters in one text.

There's actually a periodic table of text abbreviations. So a typical text may sound like...

Jacque Kennedye

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Hey, what's up? Do you want to hang out later? Maybe you could stop by and we could chill...talk to you later.

(Shown in Abbreviated Text)

But abbreviated in text it looks like...

Jacque Kennedye

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Hey, what's up? Do you want to hang out later? Maybe you could stop by and we could chill...talk to you later.

WAT UP? DO U WNT 2 HANG OT LTR? MYB U CLD CMBY & CHL. TTYL

Jacque Kennedye

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Yeah, actually I have tried to type some of my text messaging things in there before and sometimes I will even say it in a conversation like of LOL er just kidding. That kind of thing. It kind of has become a habit in my head.

Jacque Kennedye

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I have done that before. It is kind of embarrassing. But not too much. But I will catch myself.

Jacque Kennedye

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I think I have sleep texted before. Like my friends will text me and I will reply to them, and I will wake up and be like I don't remember sending that.

Camilla Lang

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But I mean young kids everyone is doing it. So they want. They have an urge to text.

Jacque Kennedye

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Yeah, we went to Broken Bow Lake and my dad told me that I could not text at all during the trip. Plus I didn't have a way to charge my phone so. I put my baby away for the weekend.

Jacque Kennedye

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I think it becomes frustrating for parents to try to talk to their kid when they are just texting the whole time. Especially when you are like out in the wilderness. It is kind of nice you don't notice as many things if you have your phone in your hand the whole time.

Jacque

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I missed it very much. I had a lot of texts to reply to when it was over.

Arwin Wang

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We play X-Box and we just like get on the internet. And play this...Runescape.

Teresa Cullen

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Games can really help children with problem solving if they are using advanced skills and also they can help with socialization there are some gaming environment and now even more and more, even things like Xbox or Play Station those are now. You hook them up to the internet. Then you can play with other people online. So they can be a social learning space.

Arwin Wang

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At the beginning of the game you kind of choose what character you want. Like you can choose its hair style and what color your skin is. What kind of face you have or if you want a beard of a mustache or something like that.

Melanie Nelson

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The research has shown for older children to middle age children that higher amounts of screen time are associated with obesity more exposure to violent images on TV or Video Games is related to increases in aggression or aggressive behavior.

Melanie Nelson

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A lot of parents that I have talked to about that particular issue say, Well I grew up watching violent movies. I grew up playing violent video games and I turned out ok. I am not a serial killer or any thing.

Melanie Nelson

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And of course that is true, but not for everybody. / It is not you play this video game and you end up aggressive, but for some kids that content can really exacerbate their levels of aggression.

Simple limits have a profound effect, like budgeting the game time.

Arwin Wang

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Nope, Parents. I have to stop.

Arwin Wang

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They don't want me to ruin my eyes or something so they just tell me to stop

Like after half an hour or something.

Arwin Wang

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Because like bad grades will, well not really bad, I just get one B and they will take it away.

Arwin Wang

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Yeah, I guess they want me to stop so they don't want me to get addicted.

Video Class Kids

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Quiet on the set...Roll camera...camera rolling...Slate it...Scene 16, take 2...Action.

You've heard of Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick...the next big name may be in this group. Students at film camp learn to act, edit and direct. Philip Whitmarsh got his start at the ripe old age of five.

Philip Whitmarsh

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All my life I've kind'a been interested in like cameras. And working with like technology and stuff, so finally I saw a lot of movies and I though "Wow, that's really cool," and "I should try it."

Philip Whitmarsh

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I got my first movie camera when I was five or six it was a real big one. I spent like hours a day with it. Filming and then it came up it occurred to me that I could add video effects.

Philip Whitmarsh

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One day so I needed to get a new camera that would actually plug into the computer. So whenever I got one of those. I started filming and adding video effects to them and stuff. Then I started getting an interest in animation.

Philip Whitmarsh

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I didn't care about editing till I was 8 or 9.

Making movies used to cost a fortune, but the price of video cameras and editing software puts the power of the producer into the youngest of hands.

Geoffrey Smith

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This is the basic video production class where they learn pre-production, production and post production process. They, I only have them for 15 hours but they learn the basics of making a video. We, they come up with their own video idea and we shoot it, we edit it and at the end of the week we'll show it on the big screen at the Heritage Hall auditorium they have here.

Charlotte Figulla

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Well I just like filming stuff, and I also like acting. I also have my camera and I just film everything that I think is interesting. And I do with my friends lots of little plays that will only take nine or eight minutes. I just like filming and acting a lot.

Geoffrey Smith

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The people behind the camera are going to take turns being a Director, a Cameraman and a Slate Operator...and Editor as well.

Damon Ray

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Me and my friend we have always wanted to make YouTube videos. We have never known how, we have never had the software. I know how to do this now. So when I get back home me and my friend we are doing to make lots of videos. Put them on YouTube. It is going to be fun.

Philip Whitmarsh

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Um I guess I could do that. I do have a couple of web sites and I could put them on there.

Whether they're making movies or watching them, teens have a whole new take on entertainment.

Geoffrey Smith

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Those kids that are from 10 to 20 they're all YouTube people. They are on their computer, it's no big deal to watch a full length movie on their computer...and I can't do that.

Geoffrey Smith

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I sit down in front of the TV and I get the remote in my hand and I like the conformability of flipping through the TV channels. That's what I've grown up on, that's what I like. These kids in this generation, the young generation, they get on YouTube and they're just all over the place.

Geoffrey Smith

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I think the adults are not as flexible or willing to learn. And that's a personal thing, some adults can be in their 80's and they're all over the internet, and you've got some people who say "I'm 80 and I'm not going to touch a computer."

Geoffrey Smith

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They get on a computer at two or three years old, and again it's like feeding off your friends..."Oh, you can do this, Oh, you can do this."

Damon Ray

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It is bad if you use it too much but really technology is here to be a short cut to make life easy for us. Life would be so hard. Many of the things we do we couldn't do without computers.

Geoffrey Smith

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I'm a digital immigrant when I'm learning how to adjust and be flexible to this non-linear world and how we approach things, and how we communicate, and how work, and how we survive. To these kids, you know, they're digital natives and they've grown up right in to it.

Damon Ray

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I don't think I see myself as being like a big famous director. But I could see myself being a camera man doing stuff like that...taking pictures.

Philip

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Maybe if I stick to it I can be as good as Stephen Spielberg.

Damon Ray

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I think the way that technology is evolving all the time is just amazing. You know the first computer scientists like had to build a room for it just because it was so huge and it barely did anything. And now you got these little pocket books. That you can hold in the palm of your hand.

Frank White

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Every student that we have here is going to be effected by it, even if they never go to college. Everything we have has technology with it somewhere. You're either affected by it because you are a consumer, or you're affected by it because in your work you use it.

Kids may be the masters of technology, but it will be adults who will prepare them for an uncertain and changing future.

Marie Pool

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You prepare students with you know today, what do you know today...so that they can imagine tomorrow.

Melanie Nelson

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I don't know if we are very good at predicting what is going to be the next thing. In order to kind of make a plan ahead of time of how we are going to protect our kids. From the threats that might be associated with it.

Marie Pool

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If they can dream it, they can do it. You just have to give them the skills and the ability to get there.

Teresa Cullen

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I think that while there are some negatives there are so many positives. The truth is that modeling appropriate behavior and being involved in our kids lives. Then I think we can really get more of the positive out of the technology.

Jacque Kennedye

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Then it was normal but now we are so adapted to all of this technology it is just normal. But back then that was their thing...this is our thing.

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HERE ARE A FEW THOUGHTS FOR THOSE FEELING LEFT BEHIND.

THE INTERNET HAS A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ON THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY.  IT TURNS OUT EVEN "GOOGLE" CAN BE GOOGLED.

OKLAHOMA'S VO TECH SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFER INSTRUCTION ON SUBJECTS RANGING FROM DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TO BUSINESS SOFTWARE.

ONE COULD EVEN ASK A YOUNG PERSON FOR HELP, SECURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE WILL ONE DAY BE ASKING HIMSELF "ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A TEN-YEAR-OLD?"

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