For many of you in this class, you are what techies refer to as "digital natives". The digital revolution in communications that started in the 1990s is something that you've grown up with. You were born into this world. So called "digital immigrants" are people, like me, who have migrated to this from our old ways. Though I'm fairly comfortable in this world and have been mostly naturalized into it, most of your parents and teachers, however, are not ... but they are probably in some part of the process (some kicking and screaming) of being forced into this new, digital world.
Post a quick response/comment to this idea and share either your story of citizenship in the digital world, or perhaps an interesting story or anecdote about a digital immigrant you live with and their journey to the new digital frontier. This might include a time when you fully realized you were a native to this technology and many of the people around you weren't.
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ReplyDeleteBeing a digital native living in a world where much of the older generations are digital immagrants, the only major issue I experience is communication. Being in Magnet and being so involved in our school has made it hard for us to communicate with the older generations, such as our teachers, when they are digital immigrants to this ever changing world.
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ReplyDeleteBeing born into this digital world often makes me slightly...overwhelmed. With the heightened demand for bigger and better technology, us natives and a select few immigrants get get wrapped up in having the newest model of this the best model of that and we end up spending so much money to replace a technology that isn't even obsolete yet. While I enjoy having the benefits (read: iPod, laptop, TV) of a technological world, I often find it absurd to the point of being flat out funny. Well...not quite as funny as watching my mom try and unmute a TV, but very close.
ReplyDeleteI think our generation really feels comfortable with technology because we were born into it and thats all we have known. My grandma wanted to get a blackberry to be like her kids when in reality she has no idea how to use it. With her having one she gets confused and it took much longer for her to learn how to use it than it would for me. This made me realize I was native to technology because she had a much harder time with the phone then I did.
ReplyDeleteI recieved my first personal computer when i was 5 years old. My parents did not get a computer until I was in 4th grade. This made it obvious at a early age that i was a digital native and my parents were not.
ReplyDeleteThe time that I realized that I was a digital native was when both my mom and my grandma asked me a question about doing something thing on a computer.
ReplyDeleteI am a noob at technology. I think this is because of my parents' limitations on my internet use. I never went onto the internet until I was 10 unless it was through school. But after using the internet for a while already, I can help my mom, who is a digital immigrant with online stuff. But because I was raised in a digital era, I have become addicted to the internet at times. Internet addiction can lead to an unhealthy habit.
ReplyDeleteBeing a digital native, some of the digital immigrants in my life ask me for help with their technological devices. My eighty plus year old grandparents received a laptop and an ipad all in one year, But they had no idea how to use them. When we go to visit them I teach them about their devices, and help them adjust to the digital world(like writing all their unimportant password on the back of their ipad). Every time though,they understand a little more and are able to email and play solitaire on the computer.
ReplyDeleteI am kind of Digital Native and really realized it when I showed my mom how to use her own Iphone.
ReplyDeleteOur "techie age" knows how to use most electronics becasue we are comfortable with messing around and figuring technological things out, while the "digital immigrants" are often hesistant and some times scared to use something new that they are unfamiliar with. My grandma is a perfect example, i love her dearly, but all she can seem to do is call and recieve calls with her fancy blackberry. I have shown her numerous times how to text (so that me and her can text one another :), but every times it seems to go in one of her ears and out the other. I think this is becasue she is only ccomfortable with calling becasue that is what she has grown up with, and she has no desiere to mess around with anything she doesn't already know how to do, like texting. Wile my cousin, who is seven, already knows how to text on her mom's cell phone and handle the basics of a laptop. Our age is comfortable with technology, and therefore we use it.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to add that although facebook, cellphones, twitter, and ipods are useful and fun to use, I think our age of youth often gets too wrapped up in the electonical world, only to miss the real world around us.
Our generation loves technology to the point we have to buy the newest technology even though the old ones still work. Unlike our parents who would just use their phones until it was completely useable again.
ReplyDeleteAs a digital native I often take for granted that everyone around me is a native as well, and most of the time this is the case. Even those who were immigrants into this digital world have well adapted and utilized this technology. This rapid adaptation can be attributed to the abundance and necessity of technology in our world today.
ReplyDeleteBeing a digital native has made me imagine how different our society would be without technology. I guarantee that in the past year i have not spent one day without using some sort of technological gizmo. Also, it is assumed that everyone in society or at school has a phone or a computer so many school assignments are dependent on these, thus making it essential to have to use technology to be succesful.One funny side though is that my grandma does not know how to write an email, so she bought a phone with extra sized buttons and as simple as possible because she is a digital immigrant, and unable to master technology like us digital natives.
ReplyDeleteBeing a "native" is hard because it's challenging to communicate with older generations who have no idea how to open a word document or save a picture. My grandpa has an iPad and he always asks me how to download apps and those types of things. Older people are accustomed to sending snail mail, and now all we have to do is take 30 seconds to send an email. They seem to think technology is a bad thing, but it makes everyone's life easier.
ReplyDeleteIm the unknown above this. I also think the digital world can be a bad thing because people don't communicate as much face to face anymore and more over text, which can lead to social awkwardness.
ReplyDeleteBeing a citizen of cyberspace has been exciting, and utilizing the ability to communicate and work through the computer has become a mundane work. But respectively, there are those people who are new to this digital world, and some might even find it frightening. Others especially find online blogs, such as Facebook or Myspace, "dangerous." Even those who haven't joined this cyberspace yet are left out from our communication or blogs, which leaves them with little choice.
ReplyDeleteAdvancement is (unfortuantely) inevitable, so there is no point in condemning the computer world and its users. Although there are many aspects of the computer that are distasteful, the cyberspace world is still intriguing.
As a digital native, I often find myself helping "immigrants" understand the technologies we have grown up with. Since our generation is so comfortable with the use of modern technology, it has become our responsibility to assist the older generations in using things that seem obvious from our perspective.
ReplyDeleteAs a digital native I often realize that we take this technology and our knowledge of it for granted since we have had it all our lives. I realize as a digital native that technology comes natural to us such as when my mom gets confused about how to use certain functions even after she has been taught multiple times.
ReplyDeleteBeing a digital native I believe we have an advantage over older generations because we have a greater ability to socialize and communicate with eachother. This advantage has become extremely helpful to stay, "on the ball". On the contrary social networking has also taken away from other aspects of our lives such as family, freinds etc. But I do enjoy teaching my parents a thing or two for a change.
ReplyDeleteBeing born into a tech savy generation, I feel more comfortable talking to people electronically than face to face. However, my parents rely on technology more than I do, and if it were not for technology we would just never communicate.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I was always asking my parents for help using the computer. Everytime a simple popup came up I always shouted for for my dad downstairs to come up and help me even when the popup was a simple ad which i had t ojust simply close. Now that I have become older I have become much more familiar with the computer and using the internet. Instead of me asking my parents for help it is my parents asking me for help. During the past years I have become very familiar with using the computer. I am able to navigate my way past through errors and when programs don't work.I can proudly say that I am a native of the new digital frontier.
ReplyDeleteMy parents are very n00b with tech. They dont beleive that its very good (considering I spend alot of my time gaming), and consider my grades and family pride to be of a higher value. Thus they have never bought me a game system so I spent my time going to my friend's houses to do "homework" Although my grades started dropping, I managed to gain some tech levels through using this technology. xD
ReplyDeleteI always enjoyed technology a lot more than my parents. I spend more time on my computer than them, and I spend most of my gaming time on computers, while my parents only use their computers when they really need to. Whenever my parents have trouble with a program, they ask me for help.
ReplyDeleteI live with two digital immigrants and feel like I am always having to fix their digital issues. My parents both own iPhones now and I even have to answer the phones for them. My mom picked up her first phone call last week, we are very proud. I'm not particularly 'tech savy' but I defintely feel like a digital native in my house!
ReplyDeleteI like being a digital native
ReplyDeleteMy mother is a tech immigrant and often breaks our varios gadget through her uninformed actions. Once we had a laptop that wasn't working properly and her solution was to put it under the couch for several hours (While running) in her frustration. This melted the internals of the computer rendering it a an expensiuve paperweight.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the digital world. We have pictures of me sitting with my dad at our old Windows 95 computer when i was 2, watching him play Starcraft.
ReplyDeleteThis is Aaron and I am the unknown post about my mom's iphone
ReplyDeleteEven though I have grown up in a world where kids are often digital natives, I am not. In fact, I had to get help almost constantly to set up my own blog. The first day we used the blog, I couldn't do anything because I couldn't remember my google account password, as I never use it. Then, I had to send a password recovery email to my email. However, I couldn't access my email at school because I couldn't remember my password, as I almost never use my email. So, when it comes to technology, you could say I'm still in a different country
ReplyDeleteMy american grandma has a lot of technology issues so we (my dad and I) constanly have to explain things to her. But other than that, my parents know more about computers than me... their jobs require it(:
ReplyDeleteSince I was born into this world as a digital native, I sometimes forget that most of the older generations have no idea what we are talking about most of the time, like tweeting, faybo-ing or youtube-ing. IPhones brag about being easy to use, but both my parents have them and they could easily challenge this claim. Older generations try so hard to become digital immigrants, maybe it's time that we put in some extra time between statuses to step into their world for a bit and send a letter!
ReplyDeleteI view myself as a techonology immigrant because although technology has existed my whole life, I have hardly been immersed in the knowledge of how to use it. My whole family is foreigners when it comes to technology although my mom has made an honest effort to become profecient in using her Mac.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I view myself as a technology immigrant, technology is still much more natural for me then it is for say my grandma. Also, I know enough about technology to get by with everyday life. For example, I can check my email, type a word document, use a usb drive, and other basic tasks. However, when it comes to using the more advanced components of say power point, I struggle.
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