Today I read through an article Engageing, not Distracting, the Digital Generation: Responding to the Times’ Wired piece. It was an article in response to the New York Times article Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction. The times article is blaming technology as a distracter for student learning, but what it fails to recognize is students have always been distracted by something. In my day it was the ti-83 calculator that you could play Tetris with and if not that then anything else other than school work would grab my attention. The point we need to make is education should be engaging students. Embracing technology is not the only answer but it is a popular and controversial one. People fear change but when you look at the statistics that say student IQ is going up university scores are at an all time high I think this means we are moving in the right direction.
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