Twitter, Facebook And iPads: Students Love Technology [INFOGRAPHIC]

Kids today, eh? They don’t know they’re even born. When I were a lad we had to walk five miles up a hill (both ways) to a school that was always on the verge of falling apart. Inside, forty of us would crowd around a desk, sharing one pencil and re-using yesterday’s scrap paper, while a 90-year old teacher angrily waved a cane while talking about trigonometry.

And that was during P.E.

Today, my son attends what is called a ‘technology pod’, every child in his class has a curriculum-provided laptop and they all email in their homework.

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