I am a digital immigrant, but I am so fluent that it would be difficult to tell. I had to laugh because, after I read the first article, I wanted to print it out to read it instead of reading it right there on the screen. Kind of gives me away! Although, I did read it on the screen and was fine. I just seem to gravitate towards the old-fashioned way of doing things for some reason. However, in this world and work place, I have to get fluent in technology pretty quick.
I am working on becoming equipped to teach the digital natives in my classroom. Luckily, my natives are 7 and 8 years old, so they don't have much on me. I do have some You Tube frequenters and I tell them to email me links for soemthing and we will watch them if they are appropriate for class. We also use You Tube quite a bit to help reinforce concepts. The kids are glued to the screen. I try to use Brainpopjr and You Tube a lot to keep my students interested. I also try to switch things up to keep them interested.
This class is helping me a lot to keep up with technology and new trends and ideas and activities. Using the blogs also helps. I have a co-worker that watches a couple of blogs and gets the cutest ideas. I usually collaborate as my main means of expanding my knowledge of multimedia. I'm a talker.
My kids only see the videos that I show them. When we get on the computers, we have a very specific website to go to because most of them can't navitage quickly yet. You would think they could, and they are very good at Webkins, etc., but most can't type their own name very fast or know where to click to do something they haven't done before. I know there is editing software out there that lets you cut the ads out and there is also software that lets you edit and just show a part of a You Tube. Those are good ways to show just what you want.
Ha ha...I'm a digital immigrant too! I actually DO print everything off to read it:)-Darci
ReplyDeleteI print everything off if it is a lot to read. My eyes can't take the glaring at my small screen at home too long.
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