The document discusses how students are already learning in new ways through their personal learning networks and online communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. It emphasizes that teachers need to keep up with these changing ways students learn by connecting to their own personal learning networks and using new forms of online interaction and communication like BackChannels. The overall message is that teachers can no longer rely on traditional "out of the box" solutions and must participate in or create their own online networks and platforms like Ning to effectively engage today's students.