http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2005/08/24/our-schools-are-leaking/
OK, our kids are connected. Technology is part of their lives. But lets try to picture this in a different way. As you are, by now, accustomed to my saying, “It’s not technology, it’s information”. These gadgets are their links to information. They talk, text message, and google with their mobile phones, IM on their laptops, access the world wide web, Net-based video games like Halo, MMORPG (did I get that right?) games like EverQuest and Second Life. These gadgets represent intellectual appendages to our children. They are the hands and feet that carry children to new experiences, and cutting these links is like cutting an appendage ? and that makes no constructive sense to these children and their world view.
More reason to look at our services to teens and make sure we are reaching out to them in the best ways possible!