TSEC- For REAL??!!!!

Is Kadjer serious? Where do her students come from... another planet? It just seems so amazing to me that she is able to break through with so many of her students. I hold my students accountable for their learning and I set high expectations for them, but I honestly can't see my students doing much of what her students have done throughout the course of the TSEC text. It's not that I don't believe that some of my students are capable of producing at this level because I do; it's just that most of my students are so apathetic about learning that they will not complete even the most simple of writing assignments, let alone design a web page, with some of the work being done outside of class. Designing a web page may be a little more exciting for those who are into technology, but it also takes much more effort than writing 25 lines where they answer questions about themselves. Honestly, my students are more into texting and playing videogames. My greatest challenge in implementing many of the strategies Kadjer suggests is revising them in a way that will not only hook my students' interest and keep them interested, but also giving them a long-term task that they will actually complete instead of turning in a "half done" [I really wanted to use stronger language there, but I won't ;-) ] assignment just to say they did something in class.