by totalAldo @ flickr CC

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kids_dont_blog_maybe_they_never_did.php

Can’t help but wonder if we should be spending more time helping students balance their real-world and virtual world lives. As always, I’m a bit concerned over the implications that a blog post is too in-depth a process for a teenager to engage with. Maybe it has to due more with the fact that teenagers think they have to be connected at all times and the only way to accomplish this is a superficial attachment to everything instead of an in-depth understanding of just a few things.

Maybe it is a result of their education system being a mile-wide and an inch deep? I can’t help but wonder if this trend is mirrored in other industrialized nations with much higher levels over Internet connectivity.

I think there is a weird dynamic playing out here that will have repercussions, both positive and negative in the years  to come.