I often hear people say they are concerned about technology. They feel that technology is making us more and more impersonal. "They are always staring at their devices and missing the world around them." Granted, some may be a bit too connected. But I wonder...
...how did people react to the invention of the newspaper?
Since the dawn of time people have been avoiding eye contact, staring off at the stars,
voyaging across oceans, digging in the dirt. But they weren't trying to avoid people.
They were searching for information.
They were self-educating.
Our role as educators is to educate, to provide information.
Technology allows us to do that even while
comfortably tucked in for the night in our favorite jammies.
If your students and families are not able to look to you for
education and information, even in their jammies,
they will look elsewhere.
Elsewhere might not be 100% accurate.
