Today i read an article called "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction" on the New York Times website. The article talks about how technology is affecting the brains of the young people. In schools the use of computers is becoming MORE & MORE a part of everyday learning. Since schools are implementing the use of computers to contact teachers via E-mail or to teach lessons online etc.At Woodside High School, the schools prinicipal, David Reilly introduced classes on using digital tools to record music. He even found money in order to provide the school with ipads and a multimedia center. This man has taken it to the extreme in my opinion by "BABYING" his students, when he pushed first period back to 9 a.m. As Michael Rich states "The worry is that we're raising a generation of kids in front of screen whose brains are going to be wired differently."
To be totally honest technology has become a big temptation for myself and many other young people. For example Vishal, a 17 year old from California admits that the virtual world interferes with his real life assignments. He was suppossed to read a book for summer reading but instead he took a short-cut by obtaining the summary from Youtube. “A book takes so long i prefer the immediate gratification,” says Vishal. Instead of taking time to read he'll rather play 10 hours/week of video games and tinker with video editing software. This just provides proof showing how technology has become an ADDICTION.
Personnaly i sometimes let the temptation of the computer break me and i visit Facebook and Worldstar. Instead of avoiding the temptation and doing what is more important. However im working towards not being dependent on computers, and video games. Overall this article was very interesting and opened my eyes to what is really going on in the 21st centurty.
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