This chapter reminded me of the current commercials running for Microsoft's new decision making engine Bing! These commercials show people conversing with friend who are experience an information overload and how lost the basic ability to communicate and instead recite meaningless facts of information that are only minutely related to the initial question or comment of the person.
Check out the commercials here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMt6saTqq4
http://www.bing.com/
As we continue to evolve into a technology-based world, our students need the skills featured in these chapter, just as we have discussed in class. It is no longer having the knowledge intimately that is valued, but being able to find, synthesize, process, apply and teach others the info that is valued. There are certain skills that must be acquired in order to do this (e.g. determine a bad website from a good one to use as a source on a paper) that teachers must begin to instill in their students. It seems that the younger people have become so infused with technology that they have lost this ability to separate themselves and to consider their actions/the information abstractly or de-contextualized. In the news, we have seen a lot of children being arrested for possession of child pornography because they sent someone else a picture of themself naked on Facebook. Or people not getting hired because they have inappropriate my space pages. There is such a thing as being too close to the technology.
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