Growing Up Digital Wired For Distraction Summary

Matt Richtel’s article, “Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction,” validates that the point is technology is becoming a huge distraction with students and is seriously affecting them and their school. In the first section of the article Ritchel makes it clear that the point is that students attention spans are becoming smaller and smaller because their overuse of technology is distracting them. The author says in the first section of the article, “Growing Up With Gadgets,” that, “half of students from 8 to 18 are using the Internet, watching TV or using some other form of media either “most” (31 percent) or “some” (25 percent) of the time that they are doing homework.” This survey taken from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that technology is distracting many students

In the second section of the article, “The Lure of Distraction,” the author exclaims that, “(Researchers) found that playing video games led to markedly lower sleep quality than watching TV, and also led to a “significant decline” in the boys’ ability to remember vocabulary words.” This quotation shows that video games and computer games are causing more damage to adolescents than watching an exciting movie like, “Harry Potter.” Matt Ritchel, the author, makes the point of the third section out to be that technology can cause student immense amounts of joy with school but can also put a damper them because they are getting distracted. The author exclaims in the third section of the article, “Clicking Towards a Future that, “...(Vishal hopes schools) will be so impressed by his portfolio that they will overlook his school performance.” The main character in the article, Vishal Singh, hopes schools will be impressed with his technology portfolio and ignore all the other bad grades he has because he getting distracted by