Digital Youth Portraits

Wow, wow, wow! I have to say I was always excited about what I do with my 7th grade science classes and technology - we learn about power points, comic life, note share (still learning), webbing/outlining....... I am very excited about learning how to help them make a blog(yes, I had trouble setting mine up), use scratch, and start with woogiworld.com! I've always been concerned about how little we actually use our MLTI in the middle school at our level - some teachers very rarely use them except as a word processor. Ugh! I like seeing how these 5 students integrate the technology into what they are learning - I have always believed we all can learn - we just don't all learn the same way - and this is what they are showing us. Jobs for these students probably haven't even been invented yet - as teachers we need to start preparing them for these jobs and technology is one of the tools to prepare them for. I have had students come through, that if given the opportunity to use technology to show what they know, would have thrived. As I have said before, I think using technology in a middle school classroom should not be an option - it should be a requirement. We should all be on board with this.