The information in this presentation examines how teens create and communicate, both in school and in their personal lives. These slides were shown at the public forum The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media, a public forum presented by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Writing Project, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, on November 18, 2009.

You can view the SlideShare presentation below, and you can also download the slides as a PowerPoint presentation or as a PDF.

These charts summarize and re-present findings from several previous reports, including:

• Writing, Technology and Teens , by Amanda Lenhart, Sousan Arafeh, Aaron Smith, and Alexandra Macgill (2008)
• Teens, Video Games and Civics , by Amanda Lenhart et al (2008)
• Teens and Mobile Phones Over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back , by Amanda Lenhart (2009)

You can also browse all of our recent reports on teens at our teens topic page.