REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer?
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The New York Tines shares this article. The picture speaks a thousand words and for many teachers is a problem. The new technology plan for the Dept of Education depends on technology, rich technology for the dissemination of knowledge. But are the students really, learning or wired for distration. Please read the article and give your thoughts.
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
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Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
By MATT RICHTEL
Published: November 21, 2010
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Vishal Singh, 17, often chooses time on his computer over doing homework. Vishal, whose lighting gear is on the bed, is an aspiring filmmaker.
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Students at Woodside High School are often reminded of the restrictions on their phones at school.
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Allison Miller sends and receives 27,000 texts a month, carrying on multiple text conversations at a time.
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Mr. Reilly, the principal, says that the unchecked use of devices can create a culture in which students are addicted to and lost in the virtual world.
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Woodside introduced a popular audio course last year that uses digital tools to record music.
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By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer reading assignment. But he has managed 43 pages in two months.
He typically favors Facebook, YouTubeand making digital videos. That is the case this August afternoon. Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework.
On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?_r=1 This is the whole stoty. You will find it interesting.
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