Adoption will always be a struggle. Your current adult learners have a hard time “getting it” because they don’t see value in changing their habits. I think that every time you want to introduce a new technology, you also need a value proposition, a business case, and have them have a debate around it. This way, they can internalize the “whys” of using it.

Following your (blog post-relative) logic, I hope the “natives” (I hate the term, but it’s now mainstream) won’t force us to use Club Penguin to build learning activities when they get into college…