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We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to today's student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of today's 21st century technology. We cannot teach like we've taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world.

They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/sharingtechnology/archive/2008/02/23/using-youtube-in-the-classroom.aspx

Youngsters have turned into 'screenagers' who spend nearly ten hours a day glued to TVs, computers, phones and video games.

Much of the time they are texting, playing games consoles, surfing the internet, scrolling through their iPods or staring at screens during school lessons.

http://tiny.cc/vvykc

One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3000 texts a month.

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx

We shouldn't expect

"out of the box"

thinking when we only

employ "in the box" teaching.Tom Whitby

Disclaimer:It’s Not

About The

Tools!

Source: http://tiny.cc/dfu38

http://www.p21.org/route21/index.php

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Girls with Computers http://tiny.cc/de6d0 Kids with iPods http://tiny.cc/vvyb3 Boys with iPads http://tiny.cc/g1q7k Boy in front of computer screen http://tiny.cc/rvypaThinking out of the box http://tiny.cc/zdg7uCell Phones http://tiny.cc/jt71h

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