Teaching in the Digital Age

I found the reading on Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to be the most engaging this week.  I feel like I am stuck somewhere in between, like the first native generation born of immigrant parents.  True, I had computers at school when I was growing up.  However, the most notable thing I recall doing on these computers was conquering dysentary on the Oregon Trail.  What did my adventures on the Oregon Trail teach me?  That trying to stare at that horrible green and black computer screen of the early nineties was not good for a kid adjusting to glasses.  Now I stand in my own classroom, where my students are able to use iphones, video games, computers and tablets, even when they are unable to read.  My own fourteen month old son recently learned to turn the pages on my Kindle fire books and take pictures on my cell phone.  What kind of job am I preparing my kids for?  Certainly not a job where they will "sit and get" information.  Parents are often irritated with me when they realize how little time I devote to spelling lessons.  My rebuttle to them is, "Why.  Your child will have dictionary.com, T9 autotext, and Microsoft Word spell check available almost immediately.  I would rather spend my time teaching child how to find information, because the mere recall of information is almost obsolete."  These children are digital natives, and though I am one of the more "new school" technology teachers in my building, I have a long way to go to make sure that I am enhancing their education and not boring them to death!