Still, there's trouble in River City, or at least in affluent Chatham, N.J., where educators and parents struggle to keep up technologically with their plugged-in teens, sounding somewhat pitiful in the process.
At Chatham High School, some teachers talk about the computers and their accompanying bells and whistles as necessary to capture and keep the attention of a student body accustomed to living their lives online.
"To walk into a classroom that doesn't have any of that media must be like walking into a desert," says one, sounding a bit too excited about the modern-day equivalent of the overhead projector.
English teacher Rose Porpora, who's no techie, may have noticed that students have more attention issues than they did 30 years ago, and others are said to be worried enough about students producing their own work that they're insisting papers be written during class.
But their tech-savvy colleague, Steve Maher, is less concerned.
In fact, he's not entirely sure that students who "borrow and steal" material they find online for their papers should be penalized, arguing that this might be a workplace "skill that I want them to have."
Lordy.
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