It was very difficult for me to get through the pages I did get though, all the way through the introduction and the first chapter.
I didn't realize how many statistics there were about high school students being unaware of history and other subjects. But I also don't understand how all of this is technologies fault? just because students don't remember something past the date of there test, which I believe is the case most of the time, why is technology to blame? I'm not saying that's not a possibility, I just don't understand how that connection is made.
I agree, the first few chapters felt like it was just spitting out statistics at us. With as much as I complained through the reading and had difficulty staying focused, I felt like one of the statistics.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post. I think all the statistics are showing us that some high school students are more aware than others in certain areas. Such as The American Time Use Surveys and the U.S. Census Bureau found that 15-24 year olds read only 8 minutes a day and had 5 hours per day of free time (pg 49). I think technology can sway people in these age groups away from reading because new discoveries of technology are being found every day creating new devices, computers..ect I also think that technology can play a role in causing high school students to get side tracked when doing school work or another task. Technology is all around us and we have the choice to explore its uses or not.
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