A new title to go by! Having interesting times in my summer class, learning about technology & integration of technological tools into lesson plans - good stuff, and fun too.....although there is a little bit of overload going on with constant tweeting, Diigo, and the like. Tonight I read a great article - that despite being about generational divides, avoided being a 'same old' boring dissertation on how generations have differences. It was a fascinating conversation about 'digital natives', born to technology, brains wired to multi-task with iPod, laptop & phone - needing change &movement.....as compared to digital immigrants who were brought up without the tools, and are now striving to catch up. I knew that the author was talking about me when he cited the example of the immigrant printing out the page because it was easier to make notes using a hard copy.....yup, that's me! Of course the more serious point was that we immigrants have to learn to motivate & work with the natives.
So, I guess that I am an immigrant in more than one way! At least this kind doesn't require green card & legal action :)
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