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Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Theyre still kids, and although theres a lot that the experts dont yet know about them, one thing they do agree on is that what kids use and expect from their world has changed rapidly. And its all because of technology. To the psychologists, sociologists, and generational and media experts who study them, their digital gear sets this new group apart, even from their tech-savvy Millennial elders. They want to be constantly connected and available in a way even their older siblings dont quite get. These differences may appear slight, but they signal an all-encompassing sensibility that some say marks the dawning of a new generation. The contrast between Millennials and this younger group was so evident to psychologist Larry Rosen of California State University that he has declared the birth of a new generation in a new book, Rewired: Understanding the ingeneration and the Way They Learn, out next month. Rosen says the tech-dominated life experience of those born since the early 1990s is so different from the Millennials he wrote about in his 2007 book, Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation, that they warrant the distinction of a new generation, which he has dubbed the ingeneration. The technology is the easiest way to see it, but its also a mind-set, and the mind-set goes with the little i, which Im talking to stand for individualized, Rosen says. Everything is defined and individualized to me. My music choices are defined tome. What I watch on TV any instant is defined to me. He says the iGeneration includes todays teens and middle-school ers, but its too soon to tell about elementary-school ages and younger. | 
