Am I going to be a teacher, a scholar, a researcher, or what?

I'm a student, a Ph.D student, who is not taken as a student, generally. In a sense, graduate students, especially doctoral students are students and not students at the same time. They are studying, and they are students. They are supposed to be studying and researching in at least one particular part of their field of academia, and they are not students. They are teacher scholars - I like this!

Now, then what are the teacher scholars supposed to do, in the age of technology in 21st century?

Computers are often said to be a typical representative of technology. Then, do we just claim that our (current and future) classrooms have more techonology - mostly more computers and more access to the Internet?

People say that younger students (not very young, just between 13 and 25, maybe) are more skillful in using computers and more aware of the efficiency of the technology. And teachers are always behind their students' technological advances.
Do I, we as teachers have to get the needed information and the knowledge for technology?

I believe that it's time for teachers to change their view of a 21st century classroom. Traditionally students are supposed to see and listen to their teacher during the class, but at least in a computer lab classroom, they should be free to face the monitors as they like it. They are not playing around with the computers. We should trust them, think that they ar working on the tasks assigned in the class. Just like all the distracted students as usual in a traditional classes, there may be students distracted by other funky Websites in class. Teachers in that wired-classroom settings, shouldn't expect them look at and listen to them all the time. Most of them are on the task of the class and they are listening to you.

Secondly, is it enough to let students sit in a computer lab and look at what you are writing on the screen in front of them? Do you call it an advanced, 21st century, hi-tech classroom? What's the difference of it from traditional teachers' writing on the blackboard? Do we need something more, and what is that?
As a convenient communicative tool, e-mail will be a good function of a class, but don't I have to find out something else to boost their motivation up?

Finally, when we call computer writing as a new form of literacy, teachers also should be aware of the skills related to the technology. Efficiency is the maxim of technology since the industrial revolution had changed our life style. Bringing pedagogical technology into our classroom is not an option any more, we need it. However, this doesn't mean that you as a teacher have to be a versatile technology performer. Even in the 21st century we are living, but it is impossible to have the same number of computers or technological equipments as the number of students in class for the present. It is our job to find out our own technological pedagogy in the classroom, you may teach 200 students in an auditorium with one computer at the podium, or you may teach less than 15 students in a well-equipted computer lab. We are living in the 21st century but this is not "the 21st century" we used to think of in the last century, because it is just the first decade now. I believe it's our destiny to fronteer the field of new classroom with 21st-century technology. If you don't like to make efforts to be one of the fronteers, you may not be qualified as a good teacher in 21st century. We have an extra burden. Just live with that!