You should Google "marc prensky digital natives". You'll see this hype is over two decades old now.
> Unfortunately for our Digital Immigrant teachers, the people sitting in their classes grew up on the “twitch speed” of video games and MTV.
> They are used to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed messages and instant messaging.
> They've been networked most or all of their lives.
> They have little patience for lectures, step-by-step logic, and “tell-test” instruction.
There's a lot more cheerful predictions:
> My own preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent computer games to do the job, even for the most serious content.
> After all, it's an idiom with which most of them are totally familiar.
I think the core fact that learning is fundamentally about curiosity and motivation, not "engagement", was (and continues to be) glossed over, or intentionally ignored by a lot of tech-pushers.
