7 M4A - This is Your Brain Plugged In

Supporting Materials

Web Resource

The Child's Developing Brain

Tara Parker-Pope, Jon Huang, and Mike Mason, “The Child’s Developing Brain,” interactive feature on NYTimes.com, Sept. 15, 2008, as found at
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/15/health/...

Web Resource

The Digital Revolution and Adolescent Brain Evolution

Jay N. Giedd, M.D., “The Digital Revolution and Adolescent Brain Evolution,” in Journal of Adolescent Health (Vol. 51, Issue 2), Aug. 2012, 101–105.

DVD

The Merchants of Cool: A Report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers

Teenagers today have more money and independence than ever before. Their lives have become the object of obsessive focus by corporate America. Their tastes, attitudes, and aspirations are sampled and resampled by marketers wielding the latest scientific tools to determine exactly who they are...

Web Resource

The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet

Richard Knox, “The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet,” National Public Radio, March 1, 2010, as found at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124119468.

Web Resource

What You Should Know about Your Brain

Judy Willis, “What You Should Know about Your Brain,” in Educational Leadership (Vol. 67, Issue 4), 2009.

Web Resource

You Trouble

Justin O’Neill, “You Trouble,” in Scholastic Choices, Sept. 2012.

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