PEW Says Teens are Content Creators

A new (11/2/05) PEW Report (this is the PDF) describes teens as content creators. Approximately

20% blog

30% have worked on web pages

30% share multimedia content (photos, video)

For those of us promoting “multimedia authoring to learn”, it would seem we do not have to convince many students to become involved in such activities. The challenges would seem to be convincing and preparing teachers to take advantage of this interest.