Thirty years ago when my parents were in college, they rushly wrote down what the teachers had putting on the blackboard in class, and consequencely, they barely heard what the teachers had said, they just busy taking notes. Today, when I am in college, I listen carefully what the teacher has told me, and am able to clearly see their points and teaching content on the multi-media screen; after classes, I even can download their class vedios or PPTs from the Internet.
Innovations, especially scientific and technological ones, had brought a considerable revolution in education. Both students and teachers could enjoy the high-efficiency, convenience and much more opportunities from innovations. However, there are also a group of students who are lack of self-control willingness and only enjoy the entertainment part that the innovations provide.
When we compare modern education and the education in old days, not only can we find that the teaching method improved, but also the learning resources riched and learning channel broadened.
To begin with, innovations has brought us high-efficiency in education. As I mentioned at the begining, thanks to the innovation of applying multi-media in the classroom, nowadays teachers do not have to waste time on putting their teaching content on the blackboard, and students also do not have to busily taking down the notes, thus neglect the teachers' speech. Thanks to the innovation of computer as a vechicle for teacher-student-communication after class, today teachers can put their teahing plans and materials on the Internet for students to download, and also students could ask teachers questions on the Internet without going to the teachers' office.
Moreover, innovations provide education with much more convience than the past. At the end of the semester, I had a paper about linguistics, and instead of spending a whole weekend in the library like my parents used to do, what I have to do if I need resources and references is to google them, it only takes me a few seconds.
Besides, innovations fulfill students' eager for knowledge by building a large information platform for education. Take myself as an example, I am interested in psychology, and am willing to take introductory psychology courses. However, there are no psychology courses in my college. Thanks to the innovation of Internet and computer, for the whole summer, I could sited in front of my PC and took the introductory psychology courses in Yale through the Internet. Without these innovations, I could not even dream about that.
Yet, there are also few students who pay their attention only on the entertianment part of the innovations, therefore decrease their efficiency on study. Girls take the Internet for shopping and movies, boys drown on the online games. Nevertheless, we should not blame innovations for distracting these students from learning. On the contrary the origin of distraction is the students' disinclination for learning and the absence of self-dicipline.
While benefiting from the high-efficiency, convinence and more opportunites that the innovations bring to education, we should also be cautious of their disadvantages. What schools and colleges should do is not merely blame these innovations for distracting students, but to take efforts to improve students'  eager for knowledge, interests in learning and willingness to control their time for entertainment.