Two youtube videos very clearly illuminate the need for educators to appropriate technology and make sure students are able to thrive in an exponentially growing technological world. In the first video "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us," Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Antrhopology at Kansas State University, says, "We must rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves."
The second video, "Shift Happens" by Carl Fisch, redone here with permission by Michael Arnold, gives daunting statistics of the world we live in, growing at rates that stagger the brain. These numbers help us realize that "we are preparing students now for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented" and that "The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn't exist in 2004" (Fisch).