I found that the New Life website was very overwhelming. I could not possibly imagine being a student at my age and trying to not only learn my course material but have to build a community in that site .
I believe that it takes away from the task at hand, which is learning the course material.
Just as with this course and my DETTcourse I am wasting precious time trying to figure out the technology so that I can get down to the course work. This is when I really see the differences between the digital natives and myself the digital immigrants. I really must force myself to make adjustments in my life and learn to work happily along side my friend the computer, instead of fighting him half of the day.
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Kim,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the honesty of your blog post. While I do not consider myself a digital immigrant anymore, I certainly was entering college during my undergraduate studies compared to my peers. I had, had many courses concerning the software technologies available on computers, been exposed to the internet/email, and had even taken a couple computer programming courses. Regardless, I had never used the computer in a "social" sense and therefore had no idea about how to use things such as Napster (prior to Metallica's influence) or the ethernet. Everyone in my dorm was downloading music, videos, movies, and it amazed me how much more computers were capable of than I had been exposed to.
I guess I say all this because I think we can all find ourselves feeling like a digital immigrant at times. I hope your computers befriends you more as you continue in your program!
Tiffany
Yes, I believe that all can be considered digital immigrants at one point and it is up to each of us to adapt to our environment. In this form of environment I mean technology.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting--Prensky's assertions that Digital Natives' brains are "wired" differently than ours makes me wonder if I will ever be anything but an immigrant--maybe a fairly fluent one, but still an immigrant
ReplyDeleteTiffany, You comments are putting in question the terms digital immigrant and Digital natives. At first I found these definitions fascinating and to the point, but more I think about it I see them too simplistic and missing a lot of situations. Today I might be an immigrant but I also might have even more knowledge than most natives, so is the definition only based on a birth date or does it encompasses knowledge? As far as the "wiring" of the brain, I do believe that what we learn wires our brain in a certain way, but does it matter when?
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