Why Learning Is Declining In Our Classrooms

The combination of computer use, Internet, and smart phone, I wouldargue, has changed the cognitive skills required of individuals.Learning is more and more a matter of mastering various arbitrarysoftware procedures that then allow information to be accessed andcomplex operations to be performed without our needing to understandwhat is entailed in those operations. This activity is then carried onin an environment where it is quite normal to perform two, three, oreven four operations at the same