Curriculum 550 Digital Media Literacy
June 25, 2018
Digitally speaking, am I a Native or Immigrant?
I do not consider myself to be a digital immigrant since I already started to move from using just paper to submitting things digitally as part of work and College. I believe that technology has changed our world and our lives dramatically, but I still think we need to see things on paper. I am old school I guess. I know eventually we will go paperless am still a bit nervous just thinking about having more than a hundred digital homework assignment(s) and projects submitted to me to be read and graded.
Because I am still old school, I like to read their work and comment on their papers.I am also aware that because the world is transitioning from paper to digital, probably not many student's will be reading the comments I write on their assignments or papers.
I also do like the fact that technology come to exist to make our lives better. While technology is great tool on different levels, I still think I have a lot of work to do in order to become a technology/digital media "expert"
Technology is here to stay and its' here to change our World! Starting from elementary school up until university graduation, social media has the role to empower parents, students and teachers to use new ways of sharing information and build a community.
I wish I had your confidence! As much as I am learning, producing, and creating in the digital world, I feel very overwhelmed and frustrated. I feel much more confident as a consumer is the digital world! So, I definitely feel like a digital immigrant. However, I am learning this L2, not easily but I am moving forward.
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ReplyDeleteTechnology can scare us and yes it can be very frustrating at times, but persistence and trying again and again will eventually us become producers, experts digitally speaking.
I promise you,you will move forward,you will become Digital Savvy!
Thank you!!!!
DeleteI too have that sense that my emergent bilinguals are not digesting the notes I scrawl on their writing. I've thought about how to make them stop and use them as a learning tool. Recently I switched to Google docs for writing assignments. I use the "suggest" key rather than the edit key. It neatly show the student what I am suggesting without giving them the answer.
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