True Integration?

We try to tell our students to incorporate technology in the classrooms, yet we fine them $15 for a cell phone at school and tell them to "put the iPods away". We ask them to show us how to drop a video into a power point but we tell them "stay away from the SmartBoard...you'll break it."

While trying to find something about Facebook in the classroom, I came across this, "Technology has flipped our roles. It used to be that parents and teachers taught children. Now, the reverse is true and the quicker we can grasp this concept, the better equipped we will all be to live in the 21st century. " Something to think about...