Well said, Dave!

If it makes anyone feel better, those of us in higher education are also being left behind. Three years after it was founded, we’re still trying to figure out this Facebook thing that rules our undergraduates’ lives. Laptop computers are still fascinating objects of dubious educational value for some of us.

I fear that many of us who are trying to teach and mentor young people simply don’t possess the literacies we should be teaching them. We don’t understand, participate in, or often acknowledge the media with which and the environments in which our students are living their lives. It’s difficult to know if those media and environments are lasting, ephemeral, or somewhere in between, but that knowledge of them appears to be limited to youths, those who want to remain young, and those who study the youths makes things very, very difficult for all of us.

I, of course, am “hip” and “down with” much of the new technology – it’s everyone else that I’m worried about! 🙂