Preparing Tomorrow's Language Arts Teachers Today (9-22)

Today teachers and students are learning together and from one another.  The classroom has become a shared teaching/learning environment.  Interestingly enough, teachers have been a part of the digital world yet we are for the most part not as comfortable with technology as most students.  Teachers that are using technology in the English language arts classroom are not only improving their instruction for their students; they are changing the very nature of that instruction.  Teaching and learning English language arts is our goal; technology is a means by which we can reach that goal.  The students of today are "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet.