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.”
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 63 views
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is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
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plays video games 10 hours a week
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Final Report: Friendship | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 1 views
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Social relations—not simply physical space—structure the social worlds of youth.
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When teens are involved in friendship-driven practices, online and offline are not separate worlds—they are simply different settings in which to gather with friends and peers
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these dynamics reinforce existing friendship patterns as well as constitute new kinds of social arrangements.
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No more pencils, no more books: this Vancouver school has embraced iPads, iPods and apps - 107 views
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"For students attending one of Vancouver's most popular public schools, the classroom is an exciting world of iPads, iPods, apps, laptops and SmartBoards. Even the youngest children at Elsie Roy elementary in Yaletown are using iPads as they learn to write the letters of the alphabet, pull them together into words and tackle basic addition and subtraction with colourful and interactive applications that make learning feel like fun."
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Integrating mLearning into the primary school classroom.
Ed Tech and the classics! - 50 views
These are great ways for students to interact with what would normally be seen as boring curricula. check out USAToday's article Can a video game encourage kids to read the classics? http://www.usa...
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