I am proud to be a Digital immigrant! I can remember getting on a computer for the first time in 6th grade. It was so big I could not see over me. I have come a long way. I have used type writers, word processors to write my papers to graduate Chowan college in 1995. I have been on the World Wide Web and joined Face book. Now I can email and text from my phone and send my Graduate papers to my professor through a goggle doc. I am even now writing on my own blog! A lot has happened in our world and I am able to a lot more then I thought I would. I have had to learn and it has not been easy but, unlike the natives it is not already in my everyday learning. The students we teach have been exposed to technology from the time they are born. Parents are texting, using computers and the internet. The most technology my mom and dad used were the VCR and the turntable to play their Elton John records. I think it is something you have to want to learn because it is a process that the immigrants are not always familiar with. My students in my kindergarten beg me to let them get on the computer and to use my ipad2 to play games in school. These are a part of their vocabulary such as cassette player and boom box were mine and let’s not forget walk man! I will never be a Digital Native but I sure will work hard at being a Digital Immigrant to keep up with the times.
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