In the assigned reading, we are told many stories about how educators are adapting lesson plans and teaching strategies to enhance their student’s learning by incorporating digital Medias and tools into the educational realm. In some regard this is great.  When teachers introduce new digital tools into the classroom not only does it make the class more engaging for the students, but it often allows students to use more senses which attributes to students retaining and learning information easier.  Some tools such as Flickr, iMovie, and Wordle seem to have great success in the classroom from what I have gathered in Miller’s book Multimodal Composing in Classrooms.  I do believe that if you are not carful however, that students could become too dependent on these tools.  In this week’s assigned reading, an educator by the name of Carol is talked about.  Carol is a very open teacher when it comes to using digital tools in the classroom and assesses her students by using digital tools to do so.  All her students are doing quite well until she tries to use traditional quizzes to measures her students progress.  Here the students struggle and average much lower in scores than previously in the year.  This story reminds me of a similar experience I had back in my senior year of high school.  We were told to write a research paper by only using source that were books from the school and local library.  While both were sufficiently stocked with material, my classmates and I spent most of our time finding our sources because just about nobody knew how to use a library index.   This is understandable of course because research topics are much easier when doing so on the web.  While digital tools do make our lives easier and should be used, it is also important to never forget how to use older forms in case we ever need to fall back on them.