Engage or Enrage

After reading the "Engage Me or Enrage Me" article, it came to me that technology in the classroom would be a good idea but I feel as though it shouldn't be the only option of learning.  All kids have their own ways of learning, some may be through a computer and others may be hands on doing it theirselves.  In the article it says,

"Maybe if, when learning the "old" stuff, our students could be continuously challenged at the edge


of their capabilities, and could make important decisions every half-second, and could have

multiple streams of data coming in, and could be given goals that they want to reach but wonder if

they actually can, and could beat a really tough game and pass the course—maybe then they

wouldn't have to, as one kid puts it, "power down" every time they go to class."
 
This to me is very true. Students these days need to be engaged in what they are interested in and not what you think will catch their attention. Technology may catch their attention at first because its something new to them but you could loose the student in the long run because they may get bored. This may be hard to do and will come with a lot of work but students these days need to be taught in a way that they don't realize they are learning. When alot of kids go to class their attitudes are always "Why do we have to do this", or "This is stupid". Maybe a way we could do this is engage them to tell you a famous person they look up to, then have them do research on their life. I came to find that when students see others that they look up to having to go through all the same stuff they need to, it engages them to move forward.
 
On the other hand I agree that technology could work in the classroom, I just feel as though it should not be the only option.