Poll: For young people of our generation...?

[Carver]

Would you be able to concentrate more on schoolwork if we lived in the 50s instead of today--where they used typewriters to write essays and term papers, as opposed to today, where we have our laptops?
I think I would do better if I lived in the 50s. Type up my report, BAM, done! With laptops and the Internet, sure, you have more research options, but it can get distracting too (what with Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr and all).

[Jake]

Yes!

[Sammi]

Most definitely, in the 50s there would have been no hesitation to cane you for not listening, talking... You'd work harder after a slap from that wouldn't you but thankfully not allowed now, and a rise in skipping school. Now a days the children do something wrong, it's not the child that gets punished, it's the parents with an embarrassing phone call, possible fine and in prison ment. Something's gone wrong somewhere...

[Awkward Nerd]

No, I would still be able to procrastinate by practicing accordion.

[Rosa]

Nope. I wouldn't be able to find the articles I needed in any sort of timely manner and, frankly, the clicking of a typewriter would drive me nuts. Plus, it'd be hard to fix my mistakes

[Cool person]

nope

[Phoebe]

No. There will always be plenty of distractions if you don't want to do homework.

The '50s still had radio, TV, talking with friends on the phone, sports, books, comic books, magazines, going to the movies, doodling, making paper airplanes, driving around, dancing, intimacy with boyfriends and girlfriends, etc.

If you were a girl or if your family was not that scholarly, your parents might be more likely to interrupt you to ask you to do chores or watch the younger siblings or things like that.

[Sportsdude]

Easily, even though I'm doing very well in school now. I think some technology is just distracting.