Write about any ideas or facts that surprised you, angered you, delighted you, or evoked any strong reaction as you were reading. Write about anything that stays on your mind after reading.
Refer directly to the text using quotation, but only quote about 10 to 15% of your total word count. Write a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 250. You may use multiple paragraphs if that suits your comments.
Bring your completed work, printed and double spaced, to class next Wednesday.
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As a teacher, I had strong reactions to the feature article Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction. From my introduction, you will know that the experiment on the boys in Cologne has stuck with me. While my kids were growing up, we adopted a “no Nintendo or video games” rule in our home. Finding out that “these media affected the boys’ brainwave patterns while sleeping and their ability to remember their homework” made me feel that I had made a wise choice (although my son disliked that rule!). Another thing that struck me was Sam Crocker’s comments on Facebook. I think he’s absolutely right when he says that on Facebook it “feels like you’re doing something and you’re not doing anything.” When I see someone making frequent updates to Facebook, I sometimes wonder whether the person lives in the real or the virtual world!
Of course, my main concern is with you, as students heading into a new world that will combine the old demands of scholarship (close reading, synthesis of ideas, academic writing) with new temptations. My daughter complained to me about student behaviour at university these days with laptops tuned to YouTube in the classroom and scant attention paid to the professor. Although I once thought of online education as a panacea, I’ve come to realize that the real world classroom of people with its potential for learning is the key and hope that the digital world will not make it obsolete.
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As Brad would put it, im a digital native. I can strongly realte to the the article Growing up digital, wired for distraction. In my life, growing up was easy i got to do anything i wanted, till i got to the age where homework came along. We had cable but i barely watched it , i always wanted to go play outside, so i would tell my mom i had no homework (which i did). But you know parents once you say that they know, my parents would then say go clean your room, then the crying begins. Then i would be stuck in my room,obviously i still wouldnt do my homework i would just play barbies or litebrite. After a while i would clean my room then outside i would be. It just goes to show how there were distractions all around us even as kids. Now that were in the 21st century its getting worse computers,cellphones even ipods.Kids are stating to think that gadgets are more important in life then work. From experience i wish i could go back and do my homework when my mom told me, but i cant! I would take back all those times going outside palying kick the can! I only grow to concern whats gonna happen to my kids and are we even going to have classrooms and teachers to teach us or is everything going to be digital. I dont want my kids to be obsessed with facebook, its bad enough my grandma has facebook! Like the quoataion says "feels like you’re doing something and you’re not doing anything.” So what is the answer to all these questions, whats gonna happen to the economys learning systems, well i guess we'll just have to found out for ourselves!
Our life is a function of time and place, we will be successful if we know how to use everything within suitable time and place; there is no doubt, high technology digital devices are the gorgeous blessing of human’s invention but un controlled using of these devices and being a slave for them is an enormous dangerous for human’s brain. In my opinion, I consider parents are responsible to limit and constrict the usage of digital devices for their children. We can’t consider loving digital devices is a genetic mater coming to a twenty first century’s child when he was born. Simply, child absorbs this from his circumstance and environment: family, friends, school and culture. Recently parents push their young children towards whirl pool of digital world thoughtful it will improve their ability to be more intelligence and knowledge, “if you are not on top technology, you are not going to be a top of the world”, but they soon will lose their children who are addicted to this world. They are extracted hardly from that vortex. We should be more educated and knowledge to both negative and positive effects of digital devices on us. We ought to teach our children when, where, and for what these devices are used before offering them between their hands, “Dr. Rich was not suggesting young people should toss out their devices, but rather that they embrace a more balanced”. Finally, I feel pity for whose replace unrecorded events by recorded events when they block their eyes and ears in unsuitable place and time.
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After I read the article “Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction,” it stayed in my mind that some parents are mainly responsible for children’s addiction of digital technology. Part of this problem is that parents have the idea that their children need the most up to date phones, computers or electronic games and allowed them unlimited access to these devices at all the times and without supervision. It is good to have those tools as entertainment but children need to know that they have to use them with moderation. As David Reilly says, “unchecked use of digital devices can created a culture in which students are addicted to the virtual world and lost in it.” Parents should be aware about this addiction and provide their children guidance on time and distraction management. Also, parents should encourage their children to balance attention to schoolwork with social and other leisure activities. I think if parents work hard and pay more attention to this endemic that is affecting young children, they will be able to change today’s social behavior.
I find very annoying when people are walking about texting and bumping into others; or when they are on the bus just focusing on their phones or video games. For them this is their world, people around them do not exist. These children will be the next generation and they should start building a good quality of life, so they can be ready to compete and succeed in the future.
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When I finished reading the article "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction", I Strongly agreed some point, but other point I would keep my opinion. Because I suffered greatly as my son uses of digital devices. There is no denying that the digital devices make our life interesting, convenient and colourful, but it would affect real life if you are over depended on the digital devices. The article mention that the lure of these technologies is not only particularly powerful for young people, but also it affects adults too. I always can't control myself to browse the Chinese news in internet before I did my homework on computer, although I know it isn't useful and worse time. The same situation, I realised it is my fault to buy iPod-touch when I read my son's report card.
In the article, one point is "if you're not on top of technology, you're not going to be on top of the world", I agreed that, it is truth, but if you didn't balance the application and amusement, the digital devices is like a drug will make you to precipitate ruin. I read a news that a six month baby was died of starvation because his parents indulged in playing game. A lot of report of teenage criminal about internet effective. It is terrible. As a parent have to give correct guidance to teenage as to knowledge virtual and real life demands. It is very important.（242 words）
As a concern citizen, I had strongly reacted the feature Aticle Growind up Digital, wired for Distraction.I have no doubt in mind that technology is the tool of learning in this century .It is up to us to use this technology in a suitable time and places.These devices seems to be very cool but are enormously dangerous for the brain.I want to believe that parents are highly responsible to limit the usage of digital devices for their children.
as I was growing up as a kid, my parents had a rule in our home.No video game was permited in at home. I was so curious to know why my parents made that rule.so they said that the use of video games affects kids brainwave while sleeping and their ability to remember their homework. I thought it was a lie and I dislike the rule, until I was grown up enough to realize that it was a good idear.
Nowadays , most parents and educators express the idear about students digital diets, they are intensifying efforts to use technology in classroom, seeing it as a way to connect with students and give them essential skills but some of these students take technology to a different level where they prefer using the digital devices for fun instead of studies.
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The article “Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction” has much information about the influence of the digital media upon youth study. The main concerns lied on two aspects – how to use the computer and cellphone, the impact of the digital media on our brain or the boys’ brainwave patterns.
The first aspect worried me also for I have a teenage boy, who had given me many troubles about using computer. Computer and internet are good things which provide us tones of information online. If someone wants to study he or she can find huge useful information, like You Tub having many lectures on various subjects. To use these lecture, you can replay it again and again till you fully understand it. But the problem is “young people tend to use home computers for entertainment not learning, and that this can hurt school performance, particularly in low-income families.” I still have no satisfaction answer to it.
The second aspect interested me a good deal, but the article did not supply us complete information. It mentioned that “playing video games led to markedly lower sleep quality,” and “led to a significant decline in the boys’ ability to remember vocabulary words.” But we did not know whether the influences are permanent or temporary.
Anyway, I thought the best way to deal with the “ubiquitous, interactive and highly stimulating computers and phones” is to embrace a balanced approach to the developing technology to take advantage of it benefit aspect and to minimize their side effects.
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After reading the article “Growing up Digital” by Matt Ritchel, I suppose technology like Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, Apple tech and of course the internet as well Xbox live are life changing innovations made by man and doubtfully never seem to stop surprising us. However, I believe from proof of the article that if there is no balance and moderation it can pose a threat to our society. As we speak our academics and perhaps our well-being could be in jeopardy. A professor from Harvard Medical School named Michael Rich has said, “ The worry is were raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.” As I agree with him. Instead of harmless watching, and outbreak has occurred and kids will be now known as new digital zombies. In addition, it has well been said that “if your not on top of technology, you’re not going to be on top of the world,” said John Mcullen. That being said, is why I believe how to succeed in these multi-level matrix’s you not only have to balance school and play but perhaps understand that there is life , and life is not a videogame.
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