A call to all teachers

You know your students spend too much time on social networking sites. Good or bad, its the new reality of how they interact.  Its their medium of choice.

Can this behaviour be changed?  I think not. And why should it?

Can this medium be put to some good use?  I think so. Should participation actually be encouraged? I think so again.

Can this medium be actually used as a teaching tool? It should be. For once lets follow their lead instead of trying to impose our old ways. Lets accept the way they want to communicate and interact and use their medium to teach them.

Our site gives you the opportunity to involve them in the political process. Have them post their ideas on the issues important to them, as well as those selected by you. Have them read and comment on the comments and ideas of others.  Who knows, maybe the candidates will actually pay attention to the youth they seem to use so frequently invoke in their speeches.

What do we have to gain? Know what's on the minds of the people who will inheret our debt, our mistakes, our national and international problems which were in part created by not paying as much attention to the people we elected.