Try it! You'll like it!

I'm not Mikey.  I don't try new things.  I wait until they become old things, and then I slowly, tentatively climb on the bandwagon.

I didn't have a cell phone until 2001.  I didn't own an iPod until 2006.  And although I did break down and buy a blueray player this year, I still don't own any actual blueray discs (I bought the player so I could stream NetFlix instead of subscribing to a cable service).

I like to think that my reluctance to adopt new technology early and often is rooted, not in a knee-jerk suspicion of newness, but rather in the pragmatic realization that not every new technology is here to stay.  Some ideas never should have made it off the drawing board (remember the minidisc?  no?  neither does anyone else.)  Other ideas were fine - maybe even superior -  but they lost out to the natural selection process (see, ie, betamax). 

I think one challenge teachers will face more than ever in the 21st Century is discerning the fads and the fly-by-night tech crazes from the cutting edge and here-to-stay technological advances.  Sometimes, it makes sense to wait and see before jumping on board a new technology.  Find out whether Mikey likes it first.  It might be Life cereal.

But it might be Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal.