Response to "Engage Me or Enrage Me"

Marc Prensky's article "Engage Me or Enrage Me" speaks to teachers about the importance of engaging students. What we as educators can and should do to get students more involved in class and turn them into the 1st type of student (The students who are truly self-motivated). How we do this is up to us. The article talks about bringing popculture into the classroom like video games and downloading music. Again by the time I am a teacher, everything might be different. I feel that I am still up to date with all the newest technology and popculture and I feel that I can definitely engage my students. But I do fear that one day I will become "old" and lose whatever connection I had with the new hip things in the world. I can also relate to the kids of today because I do all the same things they do. Video games being one of the big ones today. I play Xbox 360 and understand how engaging and addicting it can be. This article reminds me of the movie "Stand and Deliver". Its about a new teacher entering a class with a bunch of unmotivated Hispanic students, some are in gangs and most of them felt the school system was failing them. But the teacher Mr. Escalante engaged them. He mixed it up and did things that the students have never seen before. I can't wait for the day when I have a student(s) that challenge me into engaging them. I hope I am up for the challenge by then.