Lately you’ve noticed that it takes your tween son twice as long to write a paragraph on the computer as it took you to write one in cursive, back in the day. But he’s super fast at surfing the net on your smartphone. And despite all the websites at her fingertips, your teen daughter can’t seem to complete a research paper in any reasonable amount of time. Yet she can quickly find a meme or GIF for any occasion.
Neither one of them can remember much of what their teachers or classmates said in class, either. But they know everything that happened on Instagram during the school day. Something’s missing here. Isn’t all this technology supposed to enhance their learning?
