Digital Nation - How Connected Are You?

PBS's flagship public affairs TV series Frontline recently aired Digital Nation. This was a follow up to their 2008 special Growing Up Online and it was eye opening to see how connected we are to technology.

Check out this special online and think about how you use technology and how it impacts you good or bad.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=fixed&utm_source=fixed

Exerpt from Digital Nation -

But supporters of teaching with technology say it is vital for educators to keep students engaged by using the tools students have so thoroughly mastered in their everyday lives. "We have to be interactive, because [students] are accustomed to sitting in front of a screen, and they've got five windows up, and they're talking to three people at the same time," says Michael LaSusa, co-principal of New Jersey's Chatham High School. "We have to capture the attention of students. We almost have to be entertainers." In the South Bronx, Digital Nation finds administrators at a local public middle school who credit increased use of technology with helping boost both student attendance and standardized test scores.