"All the students we teach have something in their lives that’s really engaging—something that they do and that they are good at, something that has an engaging, creative component to it. Some may download songs; some may rap, lipsync, or sing karaoke; some may play video games; some may mix songs; some may make movies; and some may do the extreme sports that are possible with twenty-first-century equipment and materials. But they all do something engaging."
"The fact is that even if you are the most engaging old-style teacher in the world, you are not going to capture most of our students’ attention the old way. “Their short attention spans,” as one professor put it, “are [only] for the old ways of learning.” They certainly don’t have short attention spans for their games, movies, music, or Internet surfing. More and more, they just don’t tolerate the old ways—and they are enraged we are not doing better by them."
Prensky, M. (2005) "Engage Me or Enrage Me" What Today's Learners Demand, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 5 (September-October 2005): 60–65, Retrieved June 5 2007 http://www.educause.edu/er/erm05/erm0553.asp?bhcp=1
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