Today I taught students how to write emails . . . And they were surprisingly receptive! In my AVID elective course we are working on soft skills that will help them prepare for life beyond school. Being on time and professional etiquette were a few topics that we started off with and that lead to emails. Mentioning that email was not going away anytime soon in addition to being the main form of contact with teachers outside of school hours had them hooked. There isn’t a typing or computer class that exists for our students anymore, so where are they supposed to consistently learn these things? This all goes back to my teaching philosophy point that technology still needs to be taught and it was nice that the students thought so too :]