As I watch the students attending the Flat Classroom Conference 09 it occurs to me that these are very talented individual students. But I ask myself if they are representative of students in general and I can't stop thinking that this is definitely a talented group but a small subset of the larger population. The kids who are most excited about using technology to communicate in schools remind me in a funny way of the kids thirty years ago who were interested in Ham radios. They were on the forefront of their technology but just not locked onto the technology product of the future. These same amateur communicators went on to be some of the great minds of a generation, they just didn't use that particular form of wireless connection.
The point is that when we push the talented kids in schools to use technology, the particular form of it is not as important as the fact that they are thinking in a forward moving direction. If we could all stop arguing about the technology and just start encouraging the creativity, the technology will take care of itself.
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