Yesterday was Take Your Kid to Work day. Scott’s company Aol. had a great program set up for the kids – from learning to blog to working the controls in a broadcast studio. It was a great day full of fun and learning.

My company, K12, also did a great program that was focused around Earth Day for the younger set of kids. We wanted to expose the older kids to a few different topics that we handle within our walls. I was asked to talk to the 8-12th graders about social media and how we approach it in the virtual education field. I always love talking to kids. The way they see the world really fascinates me. Maybe it’s the unfiltered perspective they have. I had a great time trying to connect with them. I think I did a pretty good job, but it could be just that they were humoring me out of sheer boredom! I did try to talk about how I came into my current position and some tips on things to think about when they do enter into the workforce (like networking).

Whenever I talk to tween/teens I always end up learning something. For instance, there was not one in this group of about 15 kids that used myspace or twitter. They all have used Facebook. Most didn’t even know what twitter was. That was surprising and I talked a bit about some cool stuff you can do on twitter – it didn’t seem to interest them.

All in all – it was such a fun day and I wish I had more time to talk with them – but social media work was waiting for me.