Creating Tomorrow’s Outliers

In a book I read over the summer, called Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell stated that a person needs 10,000 hours to be an expert in an area.  Most teachers do not have 10,000 hours in digital media. Teachers need more training to become proficient in this new language. The students are practicing their digital media everyday. Most teachers are comfortable with the typical teaching practices and are nervous of putting themselves out there. (We all have some bad memories of our first days teaching, do we really want to go back to that lost feeling.) The reason most of us became a teacher it to reach the students, so lets start learning their language.