I think educators should stay up to date with their students. Whatever technology they use the teacher should be able to use. I think online chat is good when students are working in groups. It allows them to exchange ideas with out having to meet in person. There are benefits to both text-based communication over synchronous and face-to-face communication. It depends on what you are send when using podcasts. It's good for informative stuff and for teachers to get something to their students. Video games could help they would have to be educational video games. The more a student play a video game the better they remember it. I somewhat agree with the article. If i had children I would not let them play video games every day. There are more important thing we could do as a family.