Joe's non-netbook

After watching the You-tube video regarding Joe's non-netbook it brings forward to educators as to how tech savvy our young students really are. Joe looked like a precocious young man but his message is quite clear. Our students are so visually stimulated with graphics and other high tech availability that a textbook holds little or no interest. A student cannot click a button to have a word explained or have the picture move about on a page in a textbook. Many of our students rely on voice activated text, that actual reading is almost nonexistent. Therefore, why read the textbook when you can google just about anything and get a synopsis of the topic. But this brings to mind many questions: Is this harmful or helpful to our students? I have yet to decide. We want our students to have all the resources available to them but we certainly don't want them to short change themselves and put forth little efforts when the click of a button can complete an assignment.