Why are communication tools/social networking tools so popular with my students? My son is twenty years old. When he was only two years old he would get excited about technology. He loved to put his hands on the keyboard and pretend he was a typing, clicking keys randomly. When he heard the printer he would get excited and kick his feet to the rhythm of the paper shooting out. The generation of children we will have in our classrooms have been bombarded with technology. Technology is in their homes, school, libraries etc. It is just a acceptabale way of life for this generation.
I attended a conference last year about how the children in my classroom will learn. Studies have been done and it has been found that the children we will have in our classrooms learn best when taught with the arts. This is why children love technology. They love creativity. Students love to be able to express themselves.
It has been said that this generation is not "social" because of technology but the word "social" may have to be redefined for this generation. Students of this generation are very social when it comes to using blogs, texting, facebook, chat rooms, cell phones, e-mail and instant messaging.
My future students enjoy feeling special and loved. These social networks give them an opportunity to feel like they have a friend. I have seen teenagers compete in who has more contacts in their texting network. Why do they make it into a competition? It all comes back to feeling important. Children long for relationships and these social network tools and communication provide that.
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