Digital Natives quiz

When it comes to the digital world, I was definitely born into it, but I have never been in love with technology. After taking the digital natives quiz I realized I am more relient on techonology than I thought, but I am also no where near what the article called a digital explorer, innovator, or addict; I am barely hanging onto the title of digital native.

I would definitely say emergent is a good way to define my digital literacy. I have become acquainted with the online article and online chapters that are now my textbooks and literature for many classes. I have not, however, come to enjoy them. My digital literacy is developing, and I am hanging in the balance waiting for someone to come and show me all there is to know about the digital world that I will eventually be required to use/know/understand, but I know that will not happen. I have embraced the aspects of the digital world that I enjoy, but have rejected the others. In order to really be successful, I feel that I will need to accept these other aspects I enjoy less and learn them well enough to help my future students.

Even though I was born into the digital world I am still learning, and even though we are all born into a world of literacy we are required to learn the basics and continue learning throughout our lives. I am finding that regardless if you are born into something, the world emergent still applies. Techonology is all around me, but if I chose to ignore it I will not be successful. The same is true for literacy. I need to be able to understand each of these in order to help my students through their emergent literacy. I cannot imagine how it would be to learn a new language, learn different academic subjects in this new language, and the digital world we have created all at the same time. After reading the Lenski article, I firmly believe a predictability log would be incredibly beneficial. A predictability log would expose their prior literacy experiences, but it could also show where they are at in the digital literacy world. Understanding how students have progressed in the digital world can be just as helpful as how they have progressed in the literary world.