Concentrating Class: Learning in the Age of Digital Distractions

Scott Rogers, Susan Matt and I recently had an Educause article published on our class titled Concentrating Class: Learning in the Age of Digital Distractions. The article is a distillation of a much longer piece which I will be posting in a few months when we complete our report to the NEH.

The Perils of Walden Zones

In Judd Apatow's new movie This Is 40 there is a funny scene where the parents decide to turn off their wifi and then try to convince their kids to disconnect.  The kid's reaction (not suprisingly) is not all the parents would have hoped for.  Hear the kid's outraged reaction in the following 40 second audio clip:

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