After reading Marc Prensk's compelling article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, I am concluding that while I was born a digital immigrant, I migrated into the technology world at a young enough age so that my "accent ", for the most part, has deteriorated.
While I do still read my morning news in paper form, and listen to the radio (traits of the digital immigrant), I also utilize Google for further information and listen to podcasts regularly. I don't have cable, but I do have high speed Internet, so I watch the news and my favorite ABC shows over the Internet (traits of the digital native).
I have noticed however that my proneness towards technology and computers has enlarged over time. When I first began college it was always my inclination to write papers out by hand first, then type them on the computer. And even though I eventually became accustomed to typing first drafts, I would always print them for editing. Gradually, I have ceased to need to print things, but I am not sure if that was a good idea because I find that the drafts that were edited on paper on better than those that I looked over and corrected on a screen.
Even if I often prefer to have info in paper form, I am comfortable with computers and technology. Whenever I have a question about something, or I just become curious, the first thing (and probably the only thing) I do is "Google it". My mind is trained for web research, and for this reason I am not scared of creating technology based activities such as Webquests, or using Wiki pages in the class. I actually prefer them over traditional learning.
Because I have been around computers most of my life, I have also learned a thing or two about troubleshooting, and I think that this kind of knowledge will be helpful when I am teacher to keep lessons running smoothly should I run into inevitable techno-difficulty.
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One of the reasons I have always enjoyed working on computers is because I became a good typist at an early age. I have never liked writing papers by hand. I have loved typing since I was young and therefore using computers for wordprocessing always seemed so easy and fun. I do know though that when I write in a jounal by long hand my brain thinks differently (slower?) I think that using computers for writing uses a different part of our brain.
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