Today's Teen Content Creators Are Tomorrow's Law Students

The PEW Internet & American Life Project recently released Teen Content Creators and Consumers. From the Press Release:

Fully half of all teens and 57 percent of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators. ... The results highlight that this is a generation comfortable with content-creating technology.

Some Key findings:

• 33 percent of online teens share their own creative content online, such as artwork, photos, stories or videos.
• 32 percent say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
• 22 percent report keeping their own personal webpage.
• 19 percent of online teens keep a blog, and 38 percent of online teens read blogs. 1
• 9 percent of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.

And About Blogs:

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.

Law profs, law-related instructional designers (read today's legal publishers transformed) and IT planners take note. The survey participants are 5-10 years away from entering law school. Courseware such as TWEN may have to replace its current teacher-driven format with a more personalized student-driven format, a "My Con Law" course model rather than the current "Professor Bland's Con Law" course model.