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The NY Times article and the You Tube video Shift Happens are indicators of how fast technology is changing within our culture and without the national education agenda. You can see bumper stickers and t-shirts that read Shift Happens. There are rules for texting. Did you know that if you use capital letters such as "U R" it means that you are writing the words "you are," but if you use lower case as in "l8tr", it means that you should read the sounds of the letters to read "later"? The fact that our students are creating new forms of communication can be unsettling for those of us who are just trying to keep up with our email. However, as the source of all my technological knowledge --my teenage daughter --heads off to college, I realize that a shift will have to happen in my teaching. I will have to turn to my middle school students teach me about the latest forms of communication (I've been wanting to create a facebook page). Perhaps, as they teach me about the new technology, I will be able to teach them some things about evaluating sources, or reading critically. And maybe, together, we can think about how and what to communicate, and what the best format for that communication will be given the audience. This collaboration would be a shift because I will need the digital natives that I teach to patiently instruct me in the ways of the wild wiki technological world where they communicate. At the very least, they can translate the tools of their culture for me so that I can share in the fun. Perhaps fan fiction is so popular because we all want to write our own endings... Hey! That gave me an idea for a new ending to "Gone with the Wind"...Is there a fan fiction site for that? I'll check it out.. C U l8tr!
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