The Internet allows kids to socialize 24-7, and it shows in their vocabularies. Mark Bauerlein is a professor at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest Generation.
Do online chatting and social networking count as reading, wonders Mark Bauerlein, a professor at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest Generation.
Chatham High School students, like many nationwide, are increasingly surrounded by screens. Their teachers debate how to handle their split focus.
While many hail the promise of digital tools in education, test scores have yet to improve, and it's because there are so many easy distractions available. Mark Bauerlein is a professor at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest Generation.
Steve Maher, a social studies teacher at Chatham High School in New Jersey, finds that teachers today almost have to be entertainers to keep kids' attention.
Multitasking and digital media have impacted students' ability to pay attention, making reading more important than ever. Rose Porpora is an English teacher at Chatham High School in NJ.
School is one of the last refuges from our always-on culture, and that's worth protecting, says Todd Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is a journalist and the author of The Flickering Mind.
Mark Bauerlein, professor at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation, admits he sometimes has trouble focusing on a book without consciously taking himself out of the loop.
M.I.T. students are among the world's smartest and most wired. They constantly multitask with their tech tools.
Standford students take part in a test to see if the brain truly can handle multitasking.
Meet Wen-Jay, 24, and her dog, Wuji. They live in Brooklyn, New York and are part of a generation called Digital Natives, or NetGeners. They've grown up immersed in digital technologies and there's evidence they're being affected in ways unheard of before computers and the Web.
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to hel