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we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.

Teachers are no longer “transmitters of data,” but active participants in the student’s learning process.

with our advanced, technological world, we must not only acknowledge the new technologies emerging but we must gain knowledge on how to use them.

f school became an interactive place where both students and teachers put their two cents in: teachers teaching students, students teaching students, teachers sharing ideas and students executing these ideas-school would be great. If we all focus on change and ways to make interactive learning better we could reach so many people! Not only can we interact with each other but we can raise awareness and pose solutions on the many issues regarding education.

Her reaction was to block all these sites, ban her daughter from the home computer and demand the school district to install content filtering that would prohibit any access to social networks.

social networking should be taught in the homes

Teachers are our best filters at school

Our Students are Already Using It

If We Block It They'll Get Around It

If We Don't Teach Our Students How to Use It (Appropriately), Who Will?