As a little girl, I dreamt about being a teacher someday.  I wanted to be just like all of the wonderful teachers that I had in school.  I wanted to be the one to teach other kids all of the wonderful things that my teachers taught me and I wanted to do it just like they did.   Now I am a teacher and I have realized that I fulfilled only part of my dream, I am a teacher and I do believe that I teach my students many, many wonderful things but I will never be able to teach just like my teachers taught me.   The world today is very different than the world that I grew up in.  Students don’t come to class and rely on the teacher and the textbook to present all of the information anymore.  Computers and especially the internet have drastically changed education.  Today’s children have been born into a digital society and that is how they are “programmed” to learn.  They have learned through digital technologies since they were toddlers.  They have developed logic skills through gaming, even as a young child.   They have developed social skills through email, instant messaging, texting, and through virtual communities such as MySpace and Facebook.  They live in a different world than I did when I was their age.   Now, as an educator, my job is much bigger than I thought it would be when I was a little girl.  My job is to learn about their lives and their world and develop ways to teach my knowledge using their tools.  As adults in this digital world, we need to learn about the digital world we live in so that we can better prepare our children for the world that they live in and, more importantly, the ever changing digital world that they will be living in in the future.