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Go look at it...I'm not good at working the link thing. : (
I was so shocked and saddened by comments made by these YOUNG girls. It literally broke my heart. Sure it's all well and good that we want to make sure our students our "tech savvy", but at what cost? It's great that students know how to Google, and blog, and Tweet, but how sure are we that they're getting the work done. One of the girls in this article even said she was on Facebook when she should have been taking notes. Now I know we can't stop this, but how do we help? For starters, we can instill certain characteristics in our children. It's called integrity. Basically what you do when no one is around. So how do we instill that our students?
Another thing that simply broke my heart was that these 13, 14, 15, year old girls, were saying how comfortable they were with lying. Not only lying to other people, but lying to themselves. They were totally ok with just putting up a front. It's important to not lose yourself.
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..."-Romans 12:2
In one of my favorite movies, "He's Just Not that into You", Mary says, "If I want to meet someone, I don't go out and get a new haircut, I update my Myspace." It makes me terribly sad that we lose that personal quality. So all this means is that when we do actually have to interact with someone, well...we...we don't know how.
Challenge: How do you not let your students (or own children for that matter) lose themselves in the virtual world? Do you set a good example?
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