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This generation of students is being pulled into technology, so us as teachers need to accept that and find a way to incorporate it into our teaching strategies.

I think that the article hit the nail on the head "educational technology extends the school day for kids who will happily play multiplication games or review grammar on computer programs." Students today are all about technology. I think if it works to motivate students to learn, it is worth using.

Technology with our youth is happening weather we like it or not, so using technology to our advantage as parents or teachers is a good idea. There are many programs to teach kids all kinds of stuff, that they will enjoy learning, being able to do your lesson on the computer makes it more of a game.

This deals with how companies are dealing with employees commenting on social networking sites. 

Chilling and interesting are the two words I would describe this article. This article discusses the benefits of having robots assist the teacher. The robots would be very life-life and interactive, being able to detect and response in the right emotions. There is already a study with a robot interacting with 18-to-24 months old kids. That robot only costs 500 dollars to manufacture. Looks like we could be out of a job in a few years' time...haha.

I found this article interesting because it made me think about what would happen if all students had laptops in the younger grades. The teachers would then have another problem of making sure the students weren't playing games, and that any Internet communications were school appropriate.

If it is a problem in college classrooms, and it definitely is, multiply that by 10 in a classroom full of youngsters.

Student response systems, as we have previously used in class, are spreading throughout education. This is a great tool that is being used to get every student involved in class discussion, and it is also being used in some instances rather than paper quizzes.