Preliminary Discussion Questions
1. How much time do you spend online per week?
2. What do you spend your online time doing?
(gaming, social media etc.) How much time to
you spend doing each?
3. How do you feel when you don’t have internet
access, or don’t have your phone?
4. Do you consider yourself a multitasker? Why?
5. Do you think you are a good multitasker?
Why/why not?
Part 1 - Discussion Questions
1. Should teachers allow students to have their
phones out during class?
2. What are the pros and cons of having web
access during class?
3. Is gaming addiction real? Why/why not?
4. Did you find yourself multitasking this
weekend? What were you trying to do and
how well did you do it?
Part 2 – Gaming Addiction
1. What do you think about South Korea’s “gaming
issue?”
2. How can an entire culture have such a problem with
gaming addiction while others (U.S.) do not? Or do
we?
3. How does South Korea compare to RPO?
4. Is a global gaming addiction actually possible?
Part 3 – Technology in the Classroom
1. If you could change how we use technology on campus, how
would you do it to better your learning?
2. What are the pros and cons of requiring students to use a laptop
in class and out of class?
3. If you could skip my class everyday, but had to log in for an hour
per day to do the work, would you do it? Explain.
4. Do you agree with the administrators at the South Bronx school?
5. Are the kids in the clip going to be more prepared for the future?
Does the school “make more sense” to you, or is it “instant
gratification education?”
6. How well do you think you would do at a school like this?
7. Do you think distractions affect your writing? Explain.