INCOMING RANT…
I’m really not one to get into the whole “naming generations” thing. I feel like ever since Douglas Coupland wrote Generation X, there’s been this need – or a sense of laziness -to label succeeding generations with successive letters. Something happened to me this morning that prompted me to go on this rant. One of my students came into school a couple hours late, this is not terribly uncommon. The student had told me that he probably didn’t fall asleep until almost 6 AM. Essentially, he was running on about an hour and a half of sleep. I had a pretty good idea of what he was doing up all night, but I asked anyway. He told me that he had been playing on his phone.
Google AI application describes members of Gen Z as
Digital Natives: Gen Z has grown up with the internet and technology as an integral part of their lives”
They may be digital natives. They may be the first generation to be born in a fully online world, but they sure as hell don’t know how to practice self-control when it comes to their technology. 
I cannot tell you how many of my students get far too little sleep because they’re too busy playing on their phones at night; or playing video games on their gaming systems. The whole online gaming option – to play along with friends (or strangers) – has made people just as addicted to their game consoles as they are to their phones.
I’m going to sound like such an old man saying this, but this entire generation doesn’t sleep anymore, because they’re too busy staying up most of the night playing on their phones.
We all have the occasional sleepless night. To lay it down, I’m sure that all of us earlier generations has stories about laying awake in bed at night, maybe with a flashlight in a book or the TV on when we should’ve been asleep. But for some of my students, this is a daily thing. They stay up all night and then fight off the urge to fall asleep in school – sometimes failing even at that – every single day. Maybe instead of Gen Z, we can call them the insomniac generation.
END OF RANT.
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