This document discusses the need for educators to adapt to today's students who are immersed in 21st century technology and digital media. It notes that students today are "hyper-communicators" who spend nearly 10 hours a day engaged with screens and are accustomed to learning through digital tools. The document argues that teachers must change their methods to match how students live and learn in today's world rather than expecting students to adapt to traditional teaching styles.

1. Social Media Soup…wikisweb 2.0mobile devicese-booksavatarsdigital contentpodcastingvideoSavor the Flavorvideo conferencingsocial networkingdigital storytelling

2. We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to today's student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of today's 21st century technology. We cannot teach like we've taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world. They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/sharingtechnology/archive/2008/02/23/using-youtube-in-the-classroom.aspx

3. Youngsters have turned into 'screenagers' who spend nearly ten hours a day glued to TVs, computers, phones and video games. Much of the time they are texting, playing games consoles, surfing the internet, scrolling through their iPods or staring at screens during school lessons. http://tiny.cc/vvykc

4. One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3000 texts a month. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx

5. We shouldn't expect "out of the box" thinking when we only employ "in the box" teaching.Tom Whitby

6. Disclaimer:It’s Not About The Tools!

7. Source: http://tiny.cc/dfu38

8. Partnership for 21st Century Skillshttp://www.p21.org/route21/index.php

9. Photo CreditsGirls with Computers http://tiny.cc/de6d0Kids with iPods http://tiny.cc/vvyb3Boys with iPadshttp://tiny.cc/g1q7kBoy in front of computer screen http://tiny.cc/rvypaThinking out of the box http://tiny.cc/zdg7uCell Phones http://tiny.cc/jt71h