*Chapter five in the Global Achievement Gap is about motivating today's students and tomorrow's workers. Wagner starts off by talking about the concern about poor work ethic in our youth. Some people are concerned about this while others say it is not poor work ethic rather they are just differently motivated.
*Today's youth generation is full of technology. Today students always feel they need to be multitasking whether it be on the phone, computer, doing homeworking, listening to music. No one wants to do just one thing at a time anymore. This brings up the concern whether or not this is affecting student's ability to concentrate on one task and finish one task at a time.
*Wagner mentions how young people strive for immediate access to information. In turn people say that this makes us less patient and more demanding. Because the internet gives us answers so quickly and easily we rarely have to use the library and search for information, we can just simple google everything. College student's especially rely on technology, for the most part assignments and other important messages are sent to us through e-mail or on D2L- so in college being able to use the interent is dire.
*Since technology has grown so much throughout the years it's so important for us to take into consideration the different ways students are learning today. We need to incorporate this technology into our lessons because this is what they are familar with and technology will always be growing.
*I found one of Wagner's quoets from the book to really stick out, "Most students want learning to be active not passive." He's saying that most students actually do want to be challenged and they want to be given more opportunities from creativity and self-expression. We have to this by knowing our students and giving them the right mix of challenge and support. He also talked about the importance of a teacher-student relationship. It's important that our students feel like they can talk to us and relate to the teachers.
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