I took the quiz and I scored myself a 4 out of 6. I know what a Blogs, Wikis, Instant Messaging and Massive Multiplayer Online games (thanks to my little brother) are. I had no idea what modding or smart mobs are. I consider myself to know quite a bit about technology, but obviously there is a lot I still need to learn. I don’t think I am a digital native or a digital immigrant; I am somewhere in between.
My WRA class at MSU was technology based and for the first time I learned to make a webpage, post on a wiki, and create a blog. If it wasn’t for this class I would not even know what these terms meant. My brother is only a sophomore in high school and does these things daily, he is helping me make a webpage for our dad’s company and I would have never been able to do that at his age. It is so interesting to see how the different generations of people are with technology. My mother just got her first e-mail address a month ago and still does not see the purpose of it and my grandpa learned how to work a mouse on a computer recently. I think we take a lot of our knowledge of technology for granted but I still wonder has it has made our lives easier, or more complicated?
I would not consider myself to be an emergent learner when it goes to digital literacy. I think I am a little further along that being emergent. Emergent literacy is concerned with the earliest phases of literacy development and therefore emergent digital literacy would also focus on the earliest phases. I don’t believe that any of us in TE401 are emergent when it come to digital literacy because hopefully we all know a lot about blogs and webpages already and we can’t be emergent because we need to teach the stuff!
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That is awesome that your WRA class was technology based. I would have loved to take that but I had already transfered mine in from another university. That is so interesting that they took a writing course and centered it around technology! It sounds like you know quite a bit about technology already compared to what I know. I agree, it is important that we learn all of these types of technology as future teachers.
Ha ha. My mom still calls to tell me she just sent me an e-mail. It's hard to classify ourselves as emergent or natives when it comes to technology. I think I'm always going to be a bit of both. I know how to use some technolgy very well (obviously, MACs are don't fall into this category), but there is always going to be something new that I won't know how to use yet, and at which I will be emergent.
I completely understand what you mean when you talk about the different generations in your family and how they are with technology. I have 5 siblings and I can see the hierarchy in technology proficiency within my sibliings. My older brothers don't seem to know as much as me and my younger brothers. My younger siblings seem to know way more than me. I think that we are fortunate for this technology becuase it can aid in our learning and teaching. On the other hand, I think that it definately can make our lives more complicated because the more technology you have the more that can go wrong! So, I think it has its disadvantages but the pro's outway the cons. I also agree with you that it is important to be up to date with technology as teachers. I aslo think that how "digitally native" you are can depend on your socio-economic status. Children who do not have access to computers or other technologies can be left behind in the technological world.
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