Communicating Digitally

Communicating digitally is part of American's daily lives.  It is extremely essential to the way we communicate at work, school, and in our home lives.  Facebook is currently the most popular way of communicating digitally, with more than 400 million users.  Students use technology on a daily basis outside of school to keep in touch with their peers.  This use should make using technology to communicate in the classroom second nature.  Most students have multiple email accounts, profiles on multiple social networking sites, and have used sites to talk with other people world wide.  Bringing digital communication tools in the classroom will hopefully bring education out of the stone age of chalk boards and books, and into the future of laptop based courses.  Instead of using books and written homework assignments, all homework done on computers and then emailed to teachers would be communicating digitally.  Maybe more students would be more interested in completing homework assignments since they will already be on their computer at home on a social network site.