Stormin' on Millenials and Technology: Great Brainstormin' After An Actual Storm

I posted this as a comment on Amy Sample Ward's site... you see the wheels turning and how the post about Millenials and Technology created a great brainstorm-dialogue here:
Hi Amy,
Prolix comment - sorry for the space.

I'm so interested in this concept/idea... as a language arts teacher, how do I not only incorporate technology in my class (next year, I'm excited to roll out MOODLE-integrated curriculum - MOODLE is a thingee that allows interaction and activities before and after class to happen in a shared, built learning environment - so an assignment for one class period or unit could be a wiki or online quiz/survey or blog-like activity) Do you know about MOODLE in schools?

So... I agree that the young millenials need to interact with older people, and they are gifted social networkers, so... instead of visiting nursing homes, how could a language arts teacher help teens interact with the older general populace?

There seems to be a stigma or barrier against this with all of the inflated pedophile stories out there, and students generally find it amusing when we become "friends" through a site like myspace. I suppose MOODLE might help - perhaps I should invite older/non-teenage people to interact with the class on MOODLE? Like people who want to become English teachers or I could hit up book clubs at libraries, who are mostly older women, have them come to class, have the students teach them about MOODLE and then have them be a part of our MOODLE activities as we read and reflect?... Kind of like how some universities allow really old people to come to classes for free?... what do you think?

I think that a major goal/mission of mine is for my students to learn how to channel their hyper-social networking skills for GOOD/education... so that when they are fiddling with their laptops during a large hall lecture in college, they aren't playing scrabble on facebook but connecting with people about a variety of interpretations and resources on the subject they should be attentively listening to in the lecture hall.

Do you think there is a gender gap in millenial tech-psychology? At my school boys far out number girls in tech classes that teach how to build, design and "own" technology? I think girls LOVE the social networking aspect of technology (myself included) - but I think that most girls (again, myself included) - use this attraction to social networking as a source of social aggression/bullying and/or are victims of it... and this is why girls may have been both "burned" by the exciting aspect of social networking/communication or see it as a tool for dominating relationships with other people... perhaps MOODLE will help democratize and delimit these distractions and obsessional relationships some teens have with technology?

What do you think about a "[Rock/]Tech n' Roll Camp for Girls"? I bet something like that exists in Portland?

Have you researched how other countries use technology/web to connect non-profits or to communicate within non-profits? I wonder how other countries connect education to the local community/world through technology. I wonder how these gender and age gaps with technology work in other countries.
Lots of thoughts. I think I'll post these ideas on my blog :)