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If you’re anything like me, you not only enjoy music, you surround yourself with it at all times.  As a teacher I played music often and played my guitar (pathetically I admit), but the point is that I go through music quickly and am in a constant search for new tunes to listen to.  Pandora is an online radio station that caters to music you enjoy and creates custom playlists based on your interests.  Now, Pandora might seem to have little to do with tech integration, but I believe that you teach who you are and you use technology with your students only so much as you understand how it pertains to you as an individual first.  Certainly you could integrate technology just for the sake of doing so, but, like any subject or method, not until you internalize how it benefits an individual will you powerfully impact children with it.  And so, try pandora.com and put in Patty Griffin as an initial artist.  Maybe using online radio will help you to refine your clicking and dragging, maybe it will help you to navigate the Internet, but at a minimum, it will help you to live in our students’ digital world and understand what it means to be digital learners.