The LA Times ran a very interesting article today on an LA-area classroom of 10th graders that were challenged by their teacher to put away all electronics — BlackBerry’s, iPhones, iPods, etc. — away for a week and journal their results. Snippet from the article:
Cesar Rodriguez knew he was addicted to electronic devices. But the Los Angeles 10th-grader had no idea just how sick he was.
“I can’t stand it,” he wrote in his journal on the second day of a one-week attempt to survive without television, iPods, cellphones, BlackBerrys and computers. “I woke up last night but I was still kind of asleep and I was having a dream about my phone and I started to bang my head against the pillow. I AM GOING CRAZY!!!”
Cesar, I feel you brotha.
(photo credit: Christine Cotter/LA Times)
That looks like my phone that went missing last week!