CAT 5

   In the passage "Rewired", Larry Rosen talks about how teenagers get so caught up and "plugged in" to technology. He also talks about how most of the school work deals with the Internet and technology. This causes the students to switch back and forth to other websites or to communicate with their friends instead of doing the work they should be doing. Even though this is considered multi-tasking, there actually procrastinating which causes them to finish later than they should. Larry Rosen says that kids spend many hours a day involved with these social networks and texting , which is true. However, he does believe that students should use the technology to make their school work more fun but to set guidelines to improve their health. He also says that their social life and the technologies helps them "develop and grow." He believes that the internet and computer have a positive effect when it comes to dealing with homework. I believe that doing homework that involves the Internet or a computer, gets teens caught up because they either procrastinate or their homework takes longer than it should. 

   Like Larry Rosen said, "If school work involves technology then students need to be directed to doing their work for periods of time, followed by other activities, and then back to their studies, and the cycle continues until homework is done."  I agree with this quote because this actually happens to me, and I'm sure it happens to other teens as well. If I am working on an essay or researching something on the Internet, I always seem to get sidetracked and find my self to be on Facebook, texting or listening to music and then completely forget about what I was originally doing. That causes students to not being fully aware and on point of the topic or work there doing, and not fully thinking most likely because they are not interested or tired, so they "take breaks" and proceed with something more entertaining.

  Having poor grades from doing homework on the computer can have a lot to do with procrastinating. Being that your going back and forth with your homework and social network website, your not really focusing and into the work you need to do. This causes you to most likely get a lower grade then you should be getting. Not only are you going to finish later than you should be but also you not being dedicated to you homework . Doing homework on the Internet or having other technology around you is a distraction. 

  In conclusion, homework involving the Internet or computer makes students and teens work slower than they normally would. Also, having the homework take a bit longer being that they can get bored or side tracked from the assignment and go onto doing other things on the Internet.