I stay up late but i sleep when i’m tired. Tech just gives us something to do when it’s late and we’re not tired enough to sleep

When I was a kid, I stayed up all night reading, doing art or using my computer. I’m 24 now… and I still do the same (minus the art, I’ve given up on that).

Wow… what courses are you taking? I was taking Calc, Algebra, English, CS, Physics, Chem just last year, and even though it wasn’t just a “study hall” assignment, I almost never spent more than 30 minutes a day studying (exceptions were big assignments and finals). Even though HS might seem hard, wait till you get to university.

I’m 30, I grew up playing lemonade stand on the commodor64 and playing hours of pitfall, river raid, and other assorted atari games. When I was a kid there was no internet, I loved computers but because of the lack of connectivity I was forced to find other things to do. We’d go outside and play “night games” in the summer, like “kick the can”, we’d play baseball during the day or toss around the football, bike around town, go “bummin” (which consistet of walking to the nearest gas station for a candy bar and a soda), or go skateboarding. We’d build forts, we converted a shed in the back yard into a club house, I went to radio shack and bought a 300 foot coaxial cable to run cable tv to a television we found in the trash. Those were the good old days. When technology was growing but not taking over. I slept at night because I was tired from the “negative” effects of playing outside – sunshine, fresh air, and exercise. Today I’m still a kid but technology has only enabled me to do work literally 24 hours a day if I wish, if I want to play video games I stay up late into the night to do so. If I was a kid today I’d probably never leave the house, be on my wireless phone while surfing the internet, and chatting online with other friends I may never physically see. All this does is intertwine the mind with the technology. Technology never sleeps. I don’t think that kids are bored because of lack of things to do, I think there is just too much available for instant gratification that gathering up kids for a baseball game is just too much of a pain when you can go online with your PS2 or XBOX360 and find a baseball game going on at any given time of the day. it’s too bad they don’t have games that incorporate movement so that the hours of play result in fatigue, then you’d have kids that could actually sleep, regardless of how many gadgets are present.

“Yes I love technology, but not as much as you you see, but I still love technology, always and forever……allllwayyss…and….forever…..”

What’s your point? Are you trying to highlight the point in the original study where they show that indeed there is a correlation with #gadgets? Or are you trying to somehow minimize that observation with your super-scientific notion that the fact that other articles that don’t quote the original research on that point is conclusive evidence that the original research is flawed? Shoddy work.

“high school students do have a lot of homework”

School work is for school, not home. Students being required to do school work at home while spending 7 hours every weekday at class minus a couple months of vacation per year for 13 fucking years is abso-fuckin-lutely ridiculous. Thats a lot of time you’re wasting in their lives.

I can back that up Personally. I learned every little nitty grity detail I know about computers on my own time. Look at my sourceforge profile if you’re curious, its accurate. All that time I wasted at school or doing homework I could have been home learning something much more important (more important because I make a living of it). Public Schooling wasted nearly 2 solid years of my time.

7 hours per day, 5 days per week, 38 weeks per year, for 13 years. thats 17,290 hours learning how to pronounce each letter of the alphabet, perform sufficient algebra, simple geometry, and learn a shit load of lies about american history (ie, the pillage of the native americans)

Separation of Church and State — Separation of Home and Class, anyone? At least public schools.