The Digital Generation Goes Back to School
Albert Mohler
Posted: Friday, August 18

The signs are all around us -- school buses back on the streets, school supplies on display, families back in town -- the new school year is starting all over America. And as the school supplies -- we've come a long way from loose-leaf paper, number 2 pencils, and class folders.

Indeed, The New York Times reports that increasing numbers of parents are sending their kids back to elementary school armed with cell phones and flash drives, even as college students now "must" have laptop computers. In "Back to School With Cellphone and Laptop," Jeffrey Selingo reports:

It used to be that getting ready for another school year meant buying a few new No. 2 pencils, spiral notebooks and a lunchbox. Not anymore. Young children and teenagers, as well as college students, are going to school with more electronic gadgets than ever.
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