Every so often, my news feeds pull a community newspaper article about schools focusing on technology. If I had to generalize, most of these articles bemoan spending cuts, unfunded mandates, and challenges of making sense of technology in the classroom. It does my heart good to see a school system say that teachers are equally important in making technology happen. From the maysville-online.com article (Maysville, KY), Bonnie DeAtley, the district technology coordinator at Fleming County had this to say :
"We have a really good staff and they attend training every month to keep on top of new developments. One challenge for incorporating technology into the classroom is helping veteran teachers adjust. Our kids are growing up with (computers); our teachers didn't".
There have been numerous discussions over the differences between digital native and digital immigrants...with the implication that the digtal native are much more atuned to technology than their digital immigrant counterparts. As more digital immigrants become more technologically savy, isn't there a need for a new category of the digitally naturalized? It just seems to me like the gray area between the natives and the immigrants can be bridged via something other than birthdays and obituaries.