Engage Me or Enrage Me!

The article "Engage Me or Enrage Me", serves as the perfect model for summarizing the lack of interest of today's students in their school work. Separating students into three different groups, the article shows how every year our society is losing "the students who are truly self-motivated" and even the "students who go through the motions"; take away message being that due to an overall misunderstanding of the newer generations, interest in school/educational affairs are quickly diminishing. Which would lead to the third, more modernistic group, the students who chose to "tune out" teachers.
Within the article, it gives reasons as to why this is happening more and more often. It even goes as far as quoting the thoughts of actual students of today, who all seem to agree on one thing: yesterday's education is NOT for tomorrow's kids. The problems with today's educational systems? They are not enticing students to learn in a way that interests them. Rather they are trying to educate them in ways that are, for the most part, out of date. When interviewed for "Yahoo's 2003 "Born to Be Wired" conference", one child expressed thoughts about why the internet is such a great source:
"On the internet, you can play games, you can check your mail, you can talk to your friends, you can buy things, and you can look up things you really like". So the question is, if the web and other new technologies are what is striking the new generation as "the cool thing to do", then why hasn't the educational system tried to reach out to today's students on a level of which they are familiar?
Think about it. If the educational systems would incorporate even a small portion of today's technology, such as blogging, into their lesson plans, then wouldn't it be a good chance that more students would be interested in an assignment?
To conclude, if blogging and other electronic sources were added to school systems, not only would they be saving money on paper and books etc, but their would be more of a student-interest turnout. Not to mention the fact that the students would feel a sense of ownership and pride in their work- while also getting to interact with fellow classmates.