Please reflect on the two quotes below, which address technology in the classroom. Then discuss how you foresee utilizing technology to advance literacy in your classroom. Are there specific technological tools you favor that will have a strong impact? This is intended as a discussion, so please feel comfortable responding to one another when posting. 

"Consider, for example, the changes experienced by students who graduate from secondary school this year. Their story teaches us an important lesson about our literacy future. Many graduates started their school career with the literacies of paper, pencil, and book technologies but will finish having encountered the literacies demanded by a wide variety of information and communication technologies (ICTs): Web logs (blogs), word processors, video editors, World Wide Web browsers, Web editors, e-mail, spreadsheets, presentation software, instant messaging, plug-ins for Web resources, listservs, bulletin boards, avatars, virtual worlds, and many others. These students experienced new literacies at the end of their schooling unimagined at the beginning....
"New technologies are transforming current literacies, and literacy practices, whether intentionally or unintentionally. These new technologies impact in literacy in classrooms."
(Haggod, Stevens, & Reinking, 2003; Lankshear & Knobel, 2003; Lewis & Finders, 2002)



"Before bringing any additional technology into the classroom, we must evaluate whether the subject we hope to convey through this technology loses anything when it is divorced from human interaction, and whether we will be able to make up for this elsewhere in our curriculum."
 (Rushkoff, 2012).