21st Century Learners

From what I have learnt over the past one and a half years about 21st Century learners, is that students in this technological society learn different and have extended capabilities when it comes to ICT's. Over the last 2 weeks it has become clearer that in order for students to reach their capacity teachers need to be one step ahead in the ICT world. Children are pretty much born with Iphones in their hands. Knowing from experience, my friends 2 1/2 year old son has his own Iphone so that he can play games and songs without interrupting his parents personal information in their own Iphone. After seeing him in action the other day, he knew how to use Iphones better then me! If children are becoming experienced in this kind of technology at such a young age who know what they are capable by the age of 12.

ENGAGE OR ENRAGE
I believe there is a heap of substance in the Engage or Enrage story.
Student are confronted by so much technology, video games and internet and computer that they don't find exploring and learning new things as exciting as previous generations. Most students are brought up with what they have to do to complete a game or achieve the top score on a game. When it comes to schooling students aren't sometimes challenged in such a was as to achieve the 'high level'. Schooling these days is fast paced and students often only get 30-60 minutes on a subject before the teacher moves on. Students aren't given the opportunity to finish what they started and often get left feeling disheartened. In saying this children in the current generation are used to doing 5 things at once on the computer. From checking emails to communicating on Facebook and texting or web searching as well. Is it time that classrooms allow students the freedom to have a computer at hand and range of activities at hand to keep them going throughout say a 2 hour block? If students are used to doing 5 things at once why can't they have a list of activities that they need to complete by the end of the week and allow them to their own learning time. There is an extensive range of learning games found on software and on the internet that there is no reason that these can not be used extensively in the classroom.
So yes students need to be engaged otherwise they will get 'enraged' as they will be bored doing things that they no longer are needed to do in everyday life that we know today. There are too many students these days that are diagnosed or classified as ADD or ADHD. I believe that they don't all have these problems I believe it is the teachers and parents today not having enough knowledge to keep up with the technological era and therefore students are physically just getting bored.