I hear you Hannah. There is definitely a learning curve to it and not everyone is comfortable with it. I feel out of place myself with a lot of innovative and technological stuff but trying is important I guess. (Lol on the emoticon details :D)

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Speaking the language of the students is key. We need a faculty that can speak in the present about the past and yet still anticipate the future. It’s a rough mix. I will tell you from numerous classroom observations, far too many teachers attempt to teach students as if they were replicas of themselves. They develop a type of tunnel vision in which they presume that every student learns the same way they do. I will be the first to admit that gamification is not my first language and I’ll even say that I thought the stuffed poop emoticon I saw in WalMart the other day was a little holiday Hershey’s kiss…but I’m certainly trying to learn (and to not make a fool out of myself in front of strangers when I say how cute the poop is!)

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