Week 5

The internet has an unbelievably powerful impact on this new generation of kids. Most adolescents spend every free hour online using the facebook, myspace, and you tube. Their whole lives are posted for the world to see. It is up to our generation to understand this as we have grown up with and without computers. We have to be at the forefront of using technology to better this new generation and not to harm them. The first part of the series documents teachers that don't use technology in their classroom. Students describe their class as a barren desert. It is difficult for students to learn nowadays if they are not visually seeing something. One teacher commented saying that this generation has very short attention spans because everything is usuallly at their fingertips. As teachers and future parents, we must undestand the importance of this technology and use it to benefit our kids, not harm them. There are too many horror stories out there of kids misusing the internet and geting into a lot of trouble. I personally do not have a story but I am curious to read the other blogs to hear some of the stories.