Maybe if I do this correctly I can copy the post that I made to Will's blog. If all goes well, it should follow this:

February 12th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I can certainly sympathize with the idea that we need to unlearn that everyone can, and should, learn at the same pace. I have four children, two of whom probably learned at the same pace as everyone else, and two of whom were absolutely bored to tears at the pace of learning in their classroom.
As a non-traditional student who has returned to school and is studying Adolescent English Education, I understand the need to unlearn many things that we have traditionally thought were important in teaching our students. Maybe the fact that I am older, puts me in an even greater position to understand that today’s classroom is nothing like the classroom that I was part of many years ago. I think that’s both a good thing and a scary thing. I just blogged on my own blog for a class I am taking at SUNY Cortland that the thought of my students knowing more than I do is very scary to me. How can I teach students who are already way past me?
The other thing you mentioned was not putting up roadblocks for students to use the sites and tools that they need to learn. I think sometimes we fear the “bad” things that our students can access so much that we keep them from all of the good things as well.