Duh

Modern children learn differently than children of the past. You don't say, Edmonson? In all seriousness, though, the sad part is that her article hits the point right on the nose, but a lot of educators either don't realize it or refuse to get with the times.

Now, I'm not saying every teacher needs to make a Facebook account or update their Twitter every twelve seconds from their iphone 9, however, a little bit of concession can go a long way. A lot of these websites and mediums can be a distraction, of course, especially if treated only as such by teachers and professors. On the other hand, though, if students can be shown there's more to these than merely wasting time and avoiding doing actual work, perhaps ways of instituting them in the classroom setting wouldn't sound so far fetched.