Teachers Should Change How They Teach Students Today. That's Our
Job: Response to NY Times  "Technology is Changing How Students
Learn, Teachers Say," in yet another New York Times piece that
wants to blame this generation for how it learns and blame
technology as the culprit in somehow "damaging" kids'
learning.   Well, when hasn't  it been the case that the way you
learn the world, from birth on, changes the way you learn in
school (and everywhere else)?   That, dear educators, is what
learning is.  Plain and simple.  It's not our job to teach
students in 2012 how to spin and weave, it's not our job in the
U.S. to teach our students how to write kanji, it's not our job
in 2012 to teach them how to use calculators or an abacus:  it
is our job in 2012 to teach students now for the challenges of
their lives--in a historical time, in a historical place.  It is
our job to help them learn how to be successful adults in their
future; it is not our job to preserve for them some nostalgic
vision of the future that i