The Days of Day

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I teach English 9 honors class in a room where each student has a computer on his or her desk.  This experience has caused a fascinating change in thinking for me.  In fact, if I prioritize my time differently I could write a thousand blog entries all about going back into the classroom.  But for today I want to write about how I see technology differently than my students. There is always a generational divide.  For some generations the divide was best defined by music and mores.  Now, there's another divide. Imagine that the world of technology is like a backyard.  My generation has gotten to know that yard as each individual blade of grass popped up.  My first encounter with a computer was this dark screen that I typed commands into and eventually made the screen go from black to flashing colored letters that spelled my name in a very blocky way.  Years later I got to know WordPerfect and dot-matrix printers.  Then a dial-up internet t...