Are electronics the reason for distractions with teens

Everyone in today's society has some new and improved form of technology. Whether it’s from the latest blackberry or iPhone or the latest laptop. Everybody needs to be digital even 10 year olds. But is all the technology affecting how students are in the classroom and with every activity around them. In the article "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction' it saying how everything has become digital , even in the schools. Most ways to communicate with your teachers are on the wen, where students are able to access every distractible website like Facebook, twitter and etc. I believe that when you are doing things on the web you are going to be distracted. Even doing this blog i am distracted by Facebook, oovoo & watching music videos on my laptop. Even with phones that have internet on them. You could be emailing your teacher and then forget because you are texting your friend about the party that is coming up on the weekend. The article "Debunking The Myth of Multitasking" is a great reason to why people think having their electronics with them while doing homework is great. This article says that there is a difference from background tasking and switch tasking, I believe in this a hundred percent because ALL students say that they are able to multitask between homework, television and the internet when in reality they are switch tasking. They go from watching television for 30 minutes to doing one or two problems on their homework and then going on the internet. I do this a bunch of times and i know that it is the reason why i procrastinate a lot. The question is will technology always be the downfall of peoples study habits and reasons for neglecting other obligations. This will forever be a big problem but I think as long as you can control it and get the job done it shouldn’t be a problem.