I am here, under the covers, laptop perched where it always is this time of evening, blogging. Who would have thought? As technology makes its way into the very fiber of my day, I can see how it is creeping into the fiber of my work at the middle school. This truely is how the kids are learning and how they want to interact.
My facebook page has become a favorite of mine as of late. I had sworn that I wouldn't EVER get into social networking. That's for loonies and attention seekers, I thought. Well I really have been able to interact with family and friends more efficiently...and here is where this crosses over into teaching. Today I had two friend-requests from students at the middle school at which I work. I ignored them, of course. Don't want to end up on TV 8 Live at 5! But my point is, this is how the students want to interact. This is what's natural to them. If we as teachers do not embrace this as "the way it is" we will be doing an unmentionable disservice to our students.
You should join Facebook and then we could be friends... http://www.facebook.com/
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