Important

I really like the old adage "are we teaching for our students future or our past?" This is an example of how we are clutching to our past because we either believe it is the only way to learn or we are too scared to let go of the control. If we don't embrace these technologies, then we risk schools being seen as irrelevant with increasing social and classroom problems, increasing levels of staff stress and teachers leaving the profession. Not only that, we have the responsibility to educate young people for the world they will be part of. At the moment, this is not always happening. I like the idea in the article about embracing the collaborative nature of learning with our students-let's ask them, let's challenge them, let's make them both the learner and the teacher. Are we not supposed to be 'empowering learners for individual, community and global leadership?" Let's empower them.
 * Why is it important to teach using the new technologies that students are already using as a part of their normal lives. How can our students assist us with this?**