Thoughts on Technology

Most of my students are left alone in their homes when they get home from school.  Families are broken and just not available to provide support, especially emotional support.  As a result, the only means of socialization they have is to come to school and bond with their friends, or as they say, "acquaintances". They look forward to being in school, just not to participating in classes. Perhaps it is due to this social phenomenon that they learn to use the internet.  They somehow can remove themselves from being alone and submerge themselves in electronic communication.  I see everyday at the end of the school day how excited they are to get home, or to the library if there is no home computer at home to get onto My Space.  For them this seems to be bliss.