Topic 3:   Media
For our students, life seems impossible without the use of media. Above all, computers and internet are a great source of information and entertainment. Social networks like Facebook are used by most students. Music is very important too and a great variety of mp3 players, hifi systems etc is in use. Many students have their own TV in their rooms. 
"Media multi-tasking" is absolutely normal to young people - computer, sound system, TV and even mobile phone, all at the same time. It is amazing how their doing homework or practising hobbies is surrounded by a permanent input of sound and pictures.  

This seems like a nightmare to their parents and grandparents whose use of media is a lot more traditional. Though many of them, even older grandparents, are fit with computers and internet and use all sorts of modern devices, they choose their media a lot more carefully. Print media like newspapers and magazines play a much more important role in their lives than with younger people, though reading books (e-books and paper ones) is popular with all generations.  

Our students have published texts and photos in their team blogs and it becomes obvious how dramatically the standard of electronic media has changed in the last four decades. Especially communication has become extremely easy, due to mobile phones and internet. Our Comenius project benefits from this - Facebook, Skype, blogs... This would have been impossible 20 years ago but is daily routine for students, many parents and even some grandparents now.