"Pay Attention" video reflection

I thought the video was exceptionally "eye-catching" even though it was only written messages played to music. Nothing was new information to me, but it really opened my mind to just how much technology our children have been exposed to in their short lives. This is the language that they speak. Why do we expect them to try to learn without their native tongue. Instead of embracing certain apsects of their technological world, we ban them from it and expect them to learn the old fashioned way, the way we did. Not to say that it is bad or unimportant, just that with these technological advances, we have the opportunity to enhance their learning experiences. We all know that almost every aspect of our lives has been greatly enhanced with technology. I mean where would we be if we have to stop and use a pay phone on the way to work, or actually have to run in and pay the gas attendant for our gas. What about writing a letter on a peice of paper with a pen, how old fashioned is that? Well not to say that it would be inappropriate, it is still fun to get a letter from a friend in the mail. It's just that our young people don't know that world, so it isn't fair to expect them to learn the way we did. They have been privilidged to have been born in a time with so much technology, I feel like their learning experience will be so much better if we embrace this instead of fighting it.