Practice and Endless Patience

After reading Miller and McVee, I came to one main conclusion: teaching in this world of endless technology will not be easy. That being said, I know that we can all do it well. After all, we are a part of the iGeneration. We naturally gravitate toward technology. The children that we are going to teach will take to technology even more seamlessly than we do. I think that this could lead to some pretty awesome teaching. Miller and McVee in Multimodal Composing in Classrooms wrote that 'growth resulted from choosing challenge over ease, and they encourage us to continue to try to teach in new ways' (21). With the continued technological growth of our students, there are so many different ways to work with this ability and make the material that we are teaching in our classrooms more easily accessible to our students.
Brainstorm:
Ask the students to give you ideas of what they would like to do with the technology. Since our students will know more about what is our there, it's like having a research group help you with some of the many options that are out there. Plus, with every student's answer, you will be able to get a feel for what each student prefers to work with. That way it will be easier to gear the technology in the classroom away from boring and stale computer methods that we, the teachers, think are new and fun but are really old and outdated for the students.
With a lot of patience and practice and some helpful input from our students, we can be fluent in the technology language of our students. And if we just admit when we don't know anything, then we can get ask for help and move on.