Middle and high school students are constantly connected to their mobile devices and the internet, and have grown up with portable technology. Known as the "iGeneration", these students are highly engaged with their personal digital world and plead for teachers to engage them in the classroom through technology. While some argue that heavy media multitasking is unhealthy, others believe teachers should encourage both physical and computer-based multitasking in lessons, using social networking and games as teaching tools to connect with today's students.

1. iGeneration Requires a Different Approach to Instruction By: Eva 2-11-11 2nd period

2. Today’s students work with technology

3. Middle and high school students can’t live without cell phones and internet

4. Children born in the 1990s are known as the “iGeneration”

5. iGeners are growing up with portable technology -Larry D. Rosen, psychology professor and author

6. “They are always connected to their mobile devices.”

7. Theydo not see technology as a tool.

8. Kids multitask online while…

9. …teachers ask them to task one at a time

10. Engagement is a key to connecting with today’s students.

11. “…kids are highly engaged…in their personal world.”

12. They are pleading ‘Engage me’.

13. Sitting and listening is foreign in their daily lives.

14. Teachers should encourage multitasking …both physical and computer based…

15. Yet, not everyone agrees that it is healthy.

16. A study found that heavy media multitaskers performed…

17. Worse on a test of task-switching ability.

18. While people support technology and students…

19. …other people do not.

20. Which side do you choose?

21. Andy Petroski, a director of Learning Technology…

22. says he recommends group work.

23. Students are involved in social networking and…

24. …it should also be in the classroom.

25. Teachers should also use games as teaching tools.

26. What do you think?

27. Is technology a challenge for educators?