Bigger. Better? I wonder...

This is about tools. Now go to CLPC Kids and scroll down to VBS and Burgers.

I read them both within a couple of days and what struck me were the similarities in what they're saying: Sometimes more isn't better. Sometimes more does nothing to help you accomplish your goals.

Yes, we live in a culture where kids are bombarded with more and more and more and it takes more to keep their attention. But what does that mean? Do we jump on the train with them as it goes faster and faster and faster 'til you can't see out the window anymore? Do we slow it down and turn it in a different direction and slowly change their diet and slowly draw their attention to all the things around them that they're missing?

What are we going to do with the information we have about kids and kids in our culture? Does it apply to every single kid in your class, some of them, or none of them? How do we take that information and not keep feeding them the same thing? How do we take that information or the techno tools or any of the 21st century tools available to us and help them keep their small, but ever-growing eyes on the Living God? When do we do that, and when do we rachet back to the simplist, most basic tools that we can possibly use to make our point - confident (if and when) that these are the very best tools we can use to accomplish what we need to accomplish? I wonder...