How valuable is the internet?

That is the real question.

It was a blistery sunday afternoon and my internet crashed. By crashed I mean stopped working, shut off, no blinking light, crashed. After about 20 minutes of trial and error, power on and power off I finally came to the conclusion that my beloved inter-web was down. En-light of the fact that there was an arctic blizzard outside I had thought that a legally streamed movie was the ticket to pass such a day however this new predicament posed as a problem. What will I ever do with 3 hour chunk of time that normally would have dedicated to social networks and online tv shows and movies. I told myself not to panic and decided this was the perfect opportunity to re-hash my love for reading. After snuggling up with a book for what seemed like 3 hours I got bored. I could usually sit there for hours and be fully encompassed in a novel and yet now I couldn't even sit through 20 minutes. I then proceeded to switch gears to the possibility of doing homework. Homework. Great idea, very productive. I haul out what seemed like a bag of bricks and started pulling out my books and textbooks to begin my scholar journey. After about 10 minutes of organizing what it is I was going to work on I realized that ALL my selected homework needed internet. FAIL. Is the what my life is coming to? I can't even survive without internet for an afternoon? Unfortunately this was the sad truth and i found myself in my car, in a storm, driving to the public library to get myself back on track.

This awareness has gotten me to thinking that the students walking into my classroom are going to have the same, if not more, dependance on this thing we call the internet. Their entire lives, socially and academically may or may not need internet to truly function properly. As teachers it is of utmost importance for us to be in tune with every gadget in order to be in tune with our students needs.

Well thats all for today.

Adios Blog World,
-E