Monday, February 4, 2008
Digital Native or Digital Immigrant (2/4/2008)
After taking the quiz, I would have to agree with Catherine that I am a mix between the two. I knew some of the words, but the other ones I had no clue. The article talks about "Digital Natives perceive technology as their friend and rely on it to study, work, play, relax, and communicate" and that is exactly what I use technology for. The article says that Digital Immigrants are people "who struggle to understand and master these new technologies." I have no problem in understanding and mastering new technologies once I have the knowledge. With all of that said I would say I am a mix. It is hard not to use technology especially in college and in schools because it is everywhere now. I do not believe that I am emergent when it comes to technology. Thompkins explains emergent is "you children gain an understanding of the communicative purpose of print, and they move from pretend reading to reading repetitive books..." (89). I have been using technology for some time so I believe I am past the emergent stage. I am not learning technology like students are learning to read and write in this stage. I was once at the emergent stage when it came to technology, such as learning how to use word and the internet. Emergent literacy and emergent digital literacy are a like because everything has to start somewhere. With emergent literacy students begin to read by first pretending and then building upon knowledge with some guidance. The same goes for writing, children tend to do scribbles or a few letters, but as they gain the knowledge and guidance they begin to write patterned sentences. With emergent digital literacy the same goes, to build skills there needs to be knowledge and guidance. Everything involves time and practice. Children even use technology at the emergent stage with reading tapes and following along. Teachnology is apart of our society now and it is finding its way into the classroom more and more.
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You make a good point about how technology is becoming more and more a part of the classroom...so as teachers we really need to keep up to date with everything. Like you, I am also a mix between a digital native and immigrant, so we have to be sure we can still work with what we already know about technology to enhance our learning about new technologies. Great job!
I agree with your comment about technology becoming more and more a part of the classroom. For us, emergent literacy and emergent digital literacy were two different stages and occurred at different times in our lives. We began learning how to read and write at a very young age and later began to understand the digital world. In classrooms today, I think students are emergent in reading and writing the same time they are emergent digital learners. This is because technology is what is assisting them to learn and understand literacy to begin with.
I agree that technology is finding its way into the classroom more and more. Because of this I also agree that it is crucial that teachers keep up to date on their technological and digital literacy. Because since children are now growing up in this digital world, they are starting off with higher digital literacy levels than what we grew up, so I think we need to be at or above the literacy level of our students. Well said.
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