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When students were succeeding in school with no technology, we were also living in a world with little technology, and preparing students for life in a world where technology wasn't a part of their daily lives.  

Technology is no substitute for an inspiring teacher. However, on-line materials are far more available. Twenty times more.

Because the students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.

The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century

Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.

Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.

But some professors say it’s traditional teaching methods – not the computers – that don’t belong in the classroom. To engage students, they argue, the way instructors use and talk about technology with their students needs to change.

Indeed, a variety of players – including state security agencies to Internet marketers to organized-crime circles – are creating an online world in which the very concept of anonymity has basically vanished.

“People at first thought anonymity was very simple,” he says. “It's the complete opposite: The Internet is a great tool for spying.”

“We're not working with any individual consumer information,” Mr. Green says. “In fact, we don't want it.” Instead, Generation5 says it focuses on balancing anonymity with consumer targeting.

For teachers on Facebook, professionalism trumps fun

teachers to reflect on how they use Twitter, YouTube and other online channels, all with a mind to maintaining “the public trust.”

consumers of mass media can come to believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is through constant exposure to violent imagery or commentary

That “off” switch is becoming more important in the social media age, experts say. Seeking out information to ascertain one’s personal safety is a biological imperative, but so is a tendency to overdo things. Much of the solution will depend on people becoming aware of their own satiation points, Hodson says.