Technology Changing our Classrooms

In my TE 402 class, I read an article that dealt with "think-alouds" and it talked a lot about students getting information online and reading text online, but instead of reading the full thing, it mentioned skimming and scanning the articles. It made mention of setting up online readings with straight to the point headings and putting the most important information at the beginning of the article so it is easier for the students to just brief over the information. This made me think of how technology is altering the set-up of how we were taught on how to set-up stories, information, etc. I know that I was personally taught to spread my details throughout the story or paper and then to save my biggest information paragraph at the end so the reader was left with the lasting impression of everything that should have been gathered from the piece. I feel that with this new technology arising, the current future teachers will slowly become the teachers that we talk about that refuse to change their ways and refuse to progress. How are we supposed to teach students the "original" writing structure when they will constantly be exposed to this new writing format? Since the original set-up will not be seen in everyday examples, they could see no need for it.