This is coming from a senior in high school…No job, no kids, no spouse…It makes you wonder exactly what we’re creating…

If students have a thought or curiosity in the middle of doing something they stop what they’re doing and looking it up 6% of college professors say students are coming to class prepared By a 2 to 1 margin, professors say that students’ basic skills are worse than they were 10 years ago Writing has suffered so much that teachers claim kids now write in paragraphs…that there’s no flow to their writing

Instant Gratification “I never read books. I’ll be honest. I can’t remember the last time I read a book…If there were 27 hours in a day, but there aren’t; there are only 24.” Student Interview- Digital Nation, PBS

Instant Gratification Education “Digital Media is such short attention span stuff, that they get bored.” Todd Oppenheimer Author, The Flickering Mind

Hey Beavis “Only 22 percent of those involved in one survey could identify key phrases from the Gettysburg Address. Yet in the same survey, 99 percent could identify Beavis and Butt-Head.” The Dumbest Generation - How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein