Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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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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The principal, David Reilly, 37, a former musician who says he sympathizes when young people feel disenfranchised, is determined to engage these 21st-century students. He has asked teachers to build Web sites to communicate with students, introduced popular classes on using digital tools to record music, secured funding for iPads to teach Mandarin and obtained $3 million in grants for a multimedia center.
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It was not always this way. As a child, Vishal had a tendency to procrastinate, but nothing like this. Something changed him.
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