Some disagreements that I had with this article was the fact that I would be termed a digital native, because I have been brought up with new media al around me. But this is still constantly changing. It took me quite a while to get to grips with facebook for instance even though I have been using the internet since I was 11 or 12. Surely it should have been pretty easy for me to understand. Does this mean that with the constant developments being made that learning completely digital will only help in the short run, because in a couple of decades they may have to completely change the system again. In this article it states that legacy teaching may completely due out, after all latin and greek did. I disagree with this, I think that even though technology will take over, I do not think it will ever be the only source, I think reading and writing will always still be around and taught. For instance I do not think that in primary school we will eventually only be teaching 4 year olds how to type there name. I think they will still be taught how to write it as well.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Week 8- question 6 part 2
Disagreements with article Part 2
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2 comments:
Kayleigh,
It may be worth your while, dropping your fellow study-group bloggers an email reminding them that they should be commenting on your blog, and you on theirs in order to generate a discussion similar to what would take place in real-life seminars. When people have commented on others blogs, they should then notify people of this, in the forum...as this does form part of the assessment too.
I'm glad to see that you've been posting more to your blog recently and that you're busy tackling week 8 tasks.
I am pleased to see that you query the terminology that would be applied to you....however, do you think perhaps, that you may find things such as Facebook easier to understand than older relatives/friends perhaps?
My Mum would probably be able to use it, but my Grandad would really struggle to get logged on to a computer.
I think the comments you make, are very relevant....technology is constantly changing, so possibly unless current Natives do everything they can to keep up to date, their knowledge may become like that of an immigrant, in years to come?
I hope that technology is never the only source, I think this would be a real shame!
All the best
Emma
Yes I agree that the digital immigrant/native will go in stages, because in 20 years or whatever there'll be all this new technology that we haven't had to grow up with and therefore we might struggle with it and not understand even though we've all had a fairly thorough ability and understanding of today's technological advances.
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