My First Time Blogging!

My first assignment is about 21st Century Skills in the classroom. I believe teaching our students 21st century skills is essential to promote efficiency in problem solving, higher level thinking skills, creativity, engagement and empowerment. 21st century skills is essentially teaching our students to adapt to the changing world around us. It is important to teach these skills to our students because our students will be expected to obtain jobs that do not even exist today. The educators of today will need to prepare them technologically for what the future holds. We are teaching the digital generation. The role of technology is entwined with every other skill our students will be expected to learn. I would like to know if there is such a thing as too much technology in the classroom? What is appropriate for elementary school students? And how do we balance technology with face to face interaction?