Sunday, 6 April 2008

week 8- question 6 part 4

Disagreements with article part 4

I did not do a thired section for this question because i actually agreed withthe majority of article 3 and found it very interesting. FOr article four it did not actually mention digitla immigration or natives, but i knew from what it was talking about that it was actually about this topic.

The studies in this report shows that many of the participants believed that they used the internet to solidify who they were really offline. I do not believe this is entirely true I think your online persona is always an exaggeration version of yourself to show off your good bits, you tend to miss out or talk less about the less flattering side to yourself. So I do not believe that it is always more of who you are than your actual off line self. I do not believe that I am any less technically developed than my younger sister, if anything I am less technically developed than my older brother. As I am not very good at computer games, etc, but when it come to the internet I would say that we are about equal, due to the fact that we all created our own email accounts at the same time and the fact that our dad is an engineer and very much into modern technology, he even has facebook. I do not believe that this dependency or addiction is a good thing, I already think that I rely on the internet too much and do not believe that it would be a good thing to need to rely on it even more.



1 comment:

Emma Kilkelly said...

Kayleigh,

It may have helped if your blog posts actually describe what the content is about, rather than just list the week and task number. I don't think this reads entirely clearly....it may be an idea to gather your thoughts and order them in Word, then paste them into your blog? Ok, I think I see what you're saying about 'natives' and 'immigrants' here...according to Prensky, you should be more of an immigrant than your younger sister...and your older brother even more so, if age is taken into account (ie. the younger the more knowledgable, the older the less technically adept)...but you're saying in your family this is not the case, and that your brother is the expert?

All the best

Emma