Digital Nation

• Technology is trying to make our generation and our parents generation much more alike and trying to pull us together, but it is pulling us apart
• Technology is turning into a major addiction in todays society, even in schools whether its gaming or social networking
• Psychologically multitasking is impossible, your brain can not do more than 1 thing at a time
• People who think they are very good at multi tasking, are actually slower than those who do 1 thing at a time without switching between tasks until finished
• Most kids spend 50 hours a week with digital media, i would say i spend roughly this amount of ime using digital media but i have access to digital media constantly
• A few people have died in internet cafe's due to gaming marathons without eating or drinking very much
• I do console/computer game, a large variety of games, but not excessive amounts that I think I have a problem with gaming too much, but i do not think my mom enjoys me gaming in my free time
• I first used the internet when i was roughly 6-7, maybe sooner, i can not remember exactly when i first used the internet
• My mom knows how to use most of the internet and anything business related but i know a lot more about computers than her, my dad internet games himself and knows roughly what i do about computers
• The world has sped up in a lot of ways, but education hasn't
• Marc Prensky
• If you don't keep up with technology a little bit, you will be really left behind
• I have friends online that i have never met in various games that i have never met in real life
• Industrial age vs. Digital economy
• We currently have US pilots flying things called drones (basically robot aircrafts) fighting wars in Iraq at no cost to US lives and do the job with amazing precision
• The US military is trying to teach and simulate war through virtual reality to kids between the ages 13 and 17 because hey can not recruit them
• I feel that schools today are still okay, but because of the increase in technology we should add more technology for learning purposes to schools to enhance teaching to todays society