Tuesday, February 5, 2008
2/6 Digital Native/Immigrant Quiz
Carrie Podrasky: I am a digital immigrant. The term emergent applies to my own digital literacy in several ways. I am familiar with most of the words in the quiz but not all. I am still developing in my knowledge about new kinds of technology. I still have a lot to learn. There are several connections to be made between this information of digital natives and Tompkins ideas about emergent literacy. The more a student is exposed to the information or ideas the chances are higher that they will develop quicker. For example, in the digital natives quiz, if I was more exposed to different types of digital media I would be a native instead of an immigrant. Children can be compared in a similar way. Children can develop into a developing reader with practice, activities, scaffolding of concepts, and so on. It matters how much time and what kind of time it put into learning and developing. Tompkins writes a lot about adding variety to experience. This relates to the quiz because all of the digital terms in the quiz are for different activities and uses. Exposure matters as well. Mainly, the responsibility of exposing students to various form of literature to help them develop falls on the teacher. It is also important that children have a range of experiences during their emergent literacy stage of development.
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Carrie, I agree that children can adapt to media much like they adapt to reading and further exposure to digital media will probably not be a bad skill for younger children to develop. It is interesting that you link exposure to more digital information with your identity as a digital native vs. a digital immigrant. I agree, exposure is one of the key elements to future success not only in academics, but societal as well.
Carrie- I agree that there is still much to learn about technology. There will always be new and more advanced technologies developing so it is important to stay on top of them (and keep up with our students) so we can always incorporate these technologies into our teaching strategies.
Carrie- You bring up a great point when you said that “the responsibility of exposing students to various form of literature to help them develop falls on the teacher.” I believe that it is for this reason the technology has become such a talked about issue. Students are using technology all the time outside of school. It is time for the teachers to start incorporating it into the classroom, which will in turn better prepare them for society. However, technology is not always available in every school, creating a big problem.
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