http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2&pagewanted=print
It seems to me that the pervasiveness of technology opens a host of new concerns for parents and teachers for how to manage students' interactions with computers and cell phones.
Compared with today's youth, I'm a late-adopter of technology...I was 16 before I had an email address, 24 when I got my first cell phone. But still I notice that it has had an effect on the way that I think....web browsers mean that I can be much more easily distracted. A generation ago, TV was the only real distraction (you used it for video games too); now the computer has blurred the lines between entertainment and schoolwork. I think it's a big issue that we as a society need to pay a lot of (undivided) attention to.
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