In reading through my daughter’s 5th grade poetry journal, I found these poems. While they probably won’t win any literary awards, I think the sentiment expressed is probably pretty common amongst her peers. 21st Century kids’ lives are entwined with the technological tools they have available and the content that they are able to access and, better yet, create with these tools. How do we, as educators of these kids respond to this?

Technology

Technology

We could not live without it

The computer’s broken and ….

we are all sad,

I know it’s bad, but,

We live in the 21st Century.

We need it,

but we used to not have it.

Funny that way.

A Colonist

The colonists had a hard life

I could not live that way

Hey, without a computer, I’m lost.

Savannah, 5th Grade.