Sunday, November 25, 2012
GUD Norm 6 - Entertainment
Use one of the current events sources linked at http://mrsfridaysclass.wikispaces.com/Current+Events to find a recent news article that relates to, supports, or refutes Tapscott's assertion that ENTERTAINMENT is a "norm" of the Net Generation. Your comment should include the title of the news article, a link to the article, and a summary of the article including an explanation of how the article relates to this point. Don't forget to check your rubric for evaluation criteria!
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"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?pagewanted=all
In this article, the author, Matt Richtel, shows how distracting technology, like the Internet, can be to students. He uses an intelligent high school senior named Vishal portray this. Richtel says that Vishal is daily faced with a decision between homework and entertaining himself online with social networks and video games. Vishal continually chooses the entertainment and claims that he has a tough time transitioning to his homework, which usually goes unfinished. The author said that this is typical of high school students. Daniel Anderson, a psychology professor, says that young people are wired to take to distractions and have difficulty focusing. This article refutes Tapscott's entertainment norm because Tapscott claims that "Net Geners" will be more efficient if they take some time out of their work for distractions like online games. This contradicts Richtel because he says that the young people will not be able to switch back to focusing on work, and will instead be distracted by entertainment for hours. Tapscott completely disagrees because he believes that "Net Geners" have the ability to take a 20 minute break and come right back to working hard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all
ReplyDeleteIn the book "Grown Up Digital", the author Don Tapscott states that one of the norms for the net generation is entertainment. He supports his theory by saying that the use of videogames have skyrocketed and that most kids have access to videogames. The article, "The Flight From Conversation" also supports his arguement because not only are videogames a source of entertainment yet phones are also. The article is saying that teenagers are diverting from conversation into social networking, a form of entertainment. These teens substitue tweeting for holding a face to face conversation. In addition these phones have music players which are also a form of entertainment. It states in the article that teens "show up on the job wearing earphones."