Friday, November 9, 2012

Digital Native

After thinking about it and learning more about what comprises a Digital Immigrant, I think I'm a Digital Native. I grew up with a Macintosh Classic at home. Remember those? We learned how to use a mouse. How to click and double click. How to drag. How to open. How to manipulate windows. How to type in a word processor, create graphs, and draw in a paint program. These are all second nature to me that it seems that I'm a Digital Native. I also can think of a way to do something either on the computer or by using technology. A Digital Immigrant does not. A Digital Immigrant would pick up a piece of paper or go ask someone. I think one of the main differences between the two is that a Digital Immigrant has a very hard time figuring out the technology and the Digital Native does it with ease. But, with the technology changing so fast, we are all in a way Digital Immigrants. I don't know all the technology there is out there. There is so much. I'm learning so much in this class. I love it. I hope to be able to use it in my classroom when I am a teacher.
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  1. AnonymousNovember 11, 2012 at 3:13 PM

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  2. AnonymousNovember 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM

    How did you do a word cloud? It looks nice. Yes, it is true that tecnhnology is changing every second. It is hard to keep up with it. We are digital natives at a point but we might be digital immigrants at another. There are lots of applictions to choose from when we are teaching in classrooms. Most likely, we may have to learn how to use those applictions from scratch. Then, we are digital immigrants at the perspective. Just be aware of the cyber world and try to learn it as fast as we can.

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  3. TracyNovember 13, 2012 at 7:11 PM

    I agree with you that we are all in a Digital Immigrants. We are learning a new technology that will help to our classroom later on. We are living in technology world; we must to learn new thing that will our students to be engaged in something in our classroom. But I don't want my students overuse the technology because some technology don't help them learning in their class.

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