{"id":437,"date":"2010-11-30T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-11-30T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:31:49","slug":"from-the-nytimes-computer-or-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/30\/from-the-nytimes-computer-or-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"from the NYTimes: Computer or homework?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You can\u2019t become a good writer by watching YouTube, texting and e-mailing a bunch of abbreviations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Marcia Blondel, a teacher of English at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodsidehs.org\/\">Woodside High School<\/a> in California, as quoted in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/technology\/21brain.html?pagewanted=all\">Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction<\/a>,&#8221; one in <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/features\/timestopics\/series\/your_brain_on_computers\/index.html\">a series of articles<\/a> <em>The New York Times<\/em> is publishing in order to explore how &#8220;a deluge of data can affect the way people think and behave.&#8221; The author of the article, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/matt_richtel\/index.html\">Matt Richte<\/a>l, summarizes the strain on students&#8217; attention as an overabundance of choices: &#8220;Computer or homework? Immediate gratification or investing in the future?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t become a good writer by watching YouTube, texting and e-mailing a bunch of abbreviations. &#8212; Marcia Blondel, a teacher of English at Woodside High School in California, as quoted in &#8220;Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction,&#8221; one in a series of articles The New York Times is publishing in order to explore how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4124,4261],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}