I'm not depressed or surprised by this. There is usually a generation gap between teachers and students. Today's technology widens this gap at a faster rate than ever.
Young people are learning more than ever about the information that
they want to know about, a luxury that generations before were not privy to on a large scale.
The children are showing us how they want to learn. We can't get upset if it's different than the way we want to teach.
You see that? That's the face of a kid who just learned something, delighted by its presentation (i.e., the computer).
"The most depressing comments in the report came from teachers -- those
dealing with the AO generation day in and day out -- who almost
universally bemoan the loss of attention span and ability to think
critically in their students."
-Deborah Netburn, LA Times Online