Technology brings today's students closer to the world

I have been a social studies teacher at Sehome High School for the last 13 years; it is the only high school that I have ever taught at. Truth be told, it is really the only high school I have really been in. I graduated from Sehome in 1993; I did both of my Western Washington University secondary education internships at Sehome. I was then hired as a full-time teacher at Sehome High School in 2000. So, any insight that I have into the changes to the high school environment over the last 24 years (1989 as a freshman in high school to 2013 as the social studies department chairperson) have all come through the lens of my experiences at one school.