Kids see things differently. That’s because a tsunami – a great wave of information is swelling and rolling toward them, surrounding them and compelling them. From the multiplicity of cable and satellite channels, to the bulging magazine racks, to text and e-mail capable phones, blogs, and, perhaps most obviously, to the Internet and its crown jewel, the World Wide Web - it's a great wave of information.. It doesn’t matter who you teach, you’re forced to deal with a world in which your students are surrounded and bombarded with so much information, they hardly know they’re being bombarded and influenced. You’re in competition with seductive media information forces. It doesn’t matter who you teach; you’re faced with students who see the world from within a fast paced and glitzy tsunami no one saw coming.

"...if you demand that a child who wants to teach himself learn only in lock-step...you'll do more than fail him; you'll crush him."
--Aaron Greenspan in Authoritas (click for a review of this important book)

If you're a teacher anywhere, you've got to deal with it. And, if you're not having fun, you're not being the best teacher you can be.

Herein find ways to enjoy your teaching profession and deal with a tsnunami.