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]]> http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/04/diagnosis-information-overload/#comment-1567 Casey Hales Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:17:40 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/04/diagnosis-information-overload/#comment-1567 Odd, I was writing a blog about being fried from over-information. I think if I don't "unplug" more often, I'll end up like the character played by Christopher Lloyd on Taxi, the Reverend Jim Ignatowski. J I might very well be the poster child for ADT. In all seriousness, if that's possible for me, I think there may be merit to this new-fangled malady. Many of my students have been “diagnosed” with ADD and there are times I can relate. The reason there may be more and more diagnoses of ADD is that children are being bombarded with more and more distractions. ‘Tis a far cry from my day as a student where we had your basic Big Chief tablet, a pencil and the basil reader. Today, we have handhelds, laptops, high-speed Internet, scanners, digital video, GPS, cable in the classroom, SmartBoard’s, AlphaSmart’s and that’s just in my small town in Texas elementary special education classroom. Being in a formative time, these children having nothing to relate their experiences to. Whereas, we “adults”, perhaps, have learned the ability to handle this avalanche of information and distraction through maturation. We’ve had time to take it on more slowly than our children who are hit with it from birth, practically. There are some adults, like myself, who might be less able to manage the information than others and this might result in the later-in-life ADT. Either that, or I just need more coffee. J Odd, I was writing a blog about being fried from over-information. I think if I don’t “unplug” more often, I’ll end up like the character played by Christopher Lloyd on Taxi, the Reverend Jim Ignatowski. J I might very well be the poster child for ADT.
In all seriousness, if that’s possible for me, I think there may be merit to this new-fangled malady.
Many of my students have been “diagnosed” with ADD and there are times I can relate. The reason there may be more and more diagnoses of ADD is that children are being bombarded with more and more distractions. ‘Tis a far cry from my day as a student where we had your basic Big Chief tablet, a pencil and the basil reader. Today, we have handhelds, laptops, high-speed Internet, scanners, digital video, GPS, cable in the classroom, SmartBoard’s, AlphaSmart’s and that’s just in my small town in Texas elementary special education classroom.
Being in a formative time, these children having nothing to relate their experiences to. Whereas, we “adults”, perhaps, have learned the ability to handle this avalanche of information and distraction through maturation. We’ve had time to take it on more slowly than our children who are hit with it from birth, practically. There are some adults, like myself, who might be less able to manage the information than others and this might result in the later-in-life ADT. Either that, or I just need more coffee. J

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