After taking the digital native quiz I realized that I’m not as technologically savvy as I had thought I was. I knew certain words like ‘blog’ that we’ve been introduced to in college. However, some of the words I had never seen or heard of before this quiz. Times are definitely changing and this world is depending more and more on technology. Every time I turn around there’s something new that has been invented. Technology is growing and progressing every day at an extremely fast rate.
Now I realize that I’m not a digital native but rather a digital immigrant. I do not know as much as I thought I did. I always compared my knowledge of technology to my parents knowledge and could be the explanation as to why I thought I was so digitally native. I recall countless times having to explain certain things on the computer (facebook, microsoft word, itunes, even e-mail). However, being 21 years old I know that there’s been even more technology introduced to this world that I’ve never seen or heard of. I believe that technology can be a great tool to introduce into my future classroom. My neighbor is a teacher at an elementary school and she asked the school if she could have two ipod-touches and an apple desktop computer for her classroom. They allowed her to and she uses them daily in multiple ways with her classroom. She says she absolutely loves them and so do the kids! I think this is a fantastic idea if the school can afford them, to introduce kids to the efficiency of technology and I hope I can do the same in my future classroom.
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Kali when I was reading your response about being a digital immigrant, I completely agreed with how you mentioned all your experiences with some of the more commonly used technologies such as facebook, ipods, instant messaging, and etc. It is amazing to think how we think we know more about technology than we really do. You are right, there are so many technologies being invented and incorporated into our culture that we do not even know about yet.
ReplyDeleteI also think technology is amazing in increasing student efficiency as well as helping them learn in new innovative ways. The world is changing whether we like it or not and is becoming more dependent on knowing how to use technology. Although I think technology is a good thing, I sometimes wonder how people will be able to stay literate in technology. The digital world seems endless, but perhaps by incorporating it in our classrooms it will enable both us as teachers and our students to be updated with the world as it is becoming more technologically advanced.