It is hard, but not impossible, to be a tail-end Baby Boomer (a Digital Immigrant) teaching Digital Natives. It takes work, though.
I've already embraced multiple digital and nondigital tools for composing in writing workshop. I still have a ways to go (see sidebar for great writing tools).
I'm pushing myself to read and value graphic novels.
I am half-a-step behind Monica in moving towards blogging with my students.
Podcasts like these tantalize me with possibilities for my classroom.
And there's a whole world of E-books just waiting to become another option for reading, and teaching readers. (Thank you, Wrung Sponge, for these links.)
I'll never catch up to the Natives, but I'll die learning, and that's a good thing!
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Wow that article about Digital Natives is amazing. I am going to pass around. I think he is onto something there. I am interested in the blogging teachers and student links too. I'd love to read more of your posts on these ideas.
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