E.T. was able to phone home using a Simon game. It may not be as simple to reach my students. Or could it? Students of today are exposed to technology from the moment they are born. They have learned to multitask like no other, listening to their iPods while searching the web for information to enter into their blog. The challenge for teachers today is capturing and maintaining their interest while also providing them with the information they need to know and the skills they need to succeed. We must be as adept in the technology they use as they are; we must not fear it, but rather use it.
Through my Literacy & Technology course, I am attaining skills, knowledge, and powerful resources for my future classroom in which I will need to engage my students in a way unlike the previous generations have been taught. Students can attain the higher levels of thinking that are so important to their futures. And it can be done while teaching them what is required for the standardized tests they still must take, and while integrating the technologies they are so familiar with into the classroom and their learning experience. As teachers, we just have to be as creative as E.T., and them we can reach them.
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