Perspective

"Just imagine what it must be like for this generation to go from complexity, immersion, and hands-on interactivity of The Sims to a classroom lecture." –//Simulations and the Future of Learning//, Clark Aldrich, © 2004 John WIley and Sons, inside cover

"The brain gap refers to much more than intergenetational differences in tastes and values. It points to an actual evolutionary change in the wiring of today's younger minds–a change in cerual circuitry that is fundamentally different from that of their parents and grandparents." –//iBrain//, ©2008 Gary Small, M. D. and Gigi Vorgan, HarperCollins Publisher, page 24

"As digital technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives, it transforms our social, economic, and political worlds." –//iBrain//, ©2008 Gary Small, M. D. and Gigi Vorgan, HarperCollins Publisher, page 78

"Teen brains resemble blueprints more than skyscrapers. Instead of thinking of a teenage mind as an empty house that needs furnishing, understand it as the framing of a house that still needs walls, wiring, and a roof." – //Secrets of the Teeenage Brain//, Sheryl Feinstein, © Corwin Press, page 175