Technology and Teaching

It seems that technology has altered the way we think, the way we learn, and soon the way we teach. I wonder how exactly I, as a potential instructor, will reach the generations of students who will file into the classroom with their modern thirst for fast pace efficiency? Students seem to require more "interesting" lessons. Lessons that speak to "their" generation. And I find myself caught in the middle between wanting to focus on reading from tangible texts and collaborative examination, and the new access to technology that is now present in most classrooms. It seems on the one hand what might be created is some sort of fast-food education that is flashy, high-tech and full of zero educational value. But on the other, it seems that there are some amazing opportunities to reach students through the inclusion of some modern creations like twitter in the classroom, blogging, creating a web page for a novel or character. And I guess in the end what really matters is that students learn; whether that be from the utilization of technology in the classroom, or simply reiterating the stuffy old composition pedagogy