Ethnographic Notes C – Digital Nation or Kids Online

There have been numerous negative effects of digital technologies in formal education system. People in todays classroom seem to be more focused on their numerous forms of digitial technologies. From the cellphone to even the portable gaming device, people in todays classrooms are getting more distracted than ever. To argument this claim, students today say that their multi tasking skills have increased with the adaption of technology. They claim that they can be just as focused doing multiple things at once than they can doing just one thing in particular. However numerous studies being carried out by numerous colleges including MIT have proved that students aren't as good at retaining information while multi tasking as they think.