No Choice for My Sons

An article by Darin Wagner    No Comments

Will Richardson says, “I look at my own kids and I know that technology will be a huge part of their learning lives because a) they want it to be and b) they’ll be expected to be savvy users of the devices of their day to communicate, create and collaborate (among other things.) They’re not going to be able to ‘opt out.’”

I experienced that feeling on Christmas morning.

He further writes, “We may not feel comfortable in a world filled with technology. We may not like the way it’s changing things and, even more, how fast it’s changing things. We may not like the way it pushes against much of what we’ve been doing in schools for eons. But our kids don’t have a choice. And if we’re going to fulfill our roles as teachers in our kids lives, neither do we.”

I look forward to teaching my sons about technology and helping them explore the vast and ever-changing resources that will be available to them. They will be digi-boys. In fact, my wife thinks that our youngest definitely inherited my iGeek gene!

I am smart enough, I think, to realize that I will never be an expert in all the hardware and software that is coming, but I can expect to manage them reasonably well. And I guess that is the lesson that I want my boys to learn because they will have no choice when it comes to using  and interacting with technology.