Generation IM (Week 4)

This article is full of information. It is amazing to see how technology has really changed the culture. Students are extremely digital and technologically advanced that it is hard to get them to sit in their desks and listen to a teacher teach. 6.5 hours a day outside of school are spent on some sort of media for our students. 93% of students 12-17 go online everyday. Those numbers are extremely high and shocking. This shows that we as teachers, must adapt and incorporate technology into our classrooms or witness the students tuning us out. I know that I come from a generation that was more media crazed then my parents, but this generation is even more dependent on technology and it is only going to get worse. The teachers must find ways to deliver their educational messages through some kind of technological devise. It will help students to learn and stay focused. I believe this article is beneficial as well because it gives 7 tips of how a teacher could incorporate technology into a classroom. Every generation adapts to the new ways of society and this society has our youth spending over 44 hours a week using media outlets. It is important for us as teachers to use this technology to our advantage and to use it properly so that we can still educate these students the way they need to be educated.