I can still do that, but it's so much harder. When I talk or demonstrate a task, I'm like a screen image. They can look and listen or not, as they please. They watch me teach or read as if they're watching television or a computer screen. Cutting and pasting words without ideas Technology is also changing how students do their work.
Research means cutting and pasting factoids from different sources, usually the internet.
I think students are having a hard time assembling their own ideas. Volume and rapid recall are everything. Reflection and evaluation take too much time. Many of the problems existed before computers. For the most part, they result from confining children to one room for most of the day, and from the ordinary growing pains we all encounter.