This week in Miller and McVee’s Multimodal Composing in Classrooms, a particular quote that caught my eye was “The biggest challenge, I think, is going to be getting over our fear of relinquishing our personal control in the classroom as teachers.  We are used to being the authoritarians and the leaders, the ones with the answers.”  I believe this statement to be very true.  Teachers, in my option and experience, who do not have control of their classrooms are breeding grounds for anarchy.  This is especially true for educators who are trying to introduce new forms of digital technology into their classroom.  As students we have all had those times in the classroom when our teacher could not find the control button for the volume.  Because of this, you either have the movie, clip, etc threatening to blow the speakers out of the wall, or you have half the class trying to tell the teacher how to access the controls at the same time.  Either way you have a disrupted classroom that is running wild.  Miller says to combat this that it is wise for educators to practice the use of the digital tools that the educator is going to use, and I cannot agree with him more.  When I am preparing to give a presentation on a particular subject I check, double check, and triple check my work and software that I will be using.  Having technical difficulties in front of an audience is not only embarrassing, but it is also downright unprofessional.  According to Miller, 53 % percent of educators do not use digital devices in the classroom.  While some of these teachers I’m sure are old and are stuck in their ways and there is nothing you can say to persuade them otherwise.  I am sure however, that large parts of the 53% mentioned above are afraid of my scenario mentioned earlier happing though.  I think as time goes by however more and more seminaries, conventions, and classes will open up to help educate educators, and given them the opportunity to practice their computer skills until they become confidante enough to incorporate them into their classroom.  In a way, educators are on the frontier of the educational world when it comes to using digital tools in the classroom.  Like the pioneers of old, we will have to overcome one obstacle at a time until we reach our final destination.