After taking the digital natives quiz, I realized I am more of an immigrant. This came as quite a surprise as I feel like I can hold my own when it comes to technology. However, there seems to be words, and acronyms for things that I never have heard of. I would definitely see myself as an emergent digital literacy learner, as I am trying to become aware of the technology available with regard to literacy.
Tompkins writes about the different stages of emergent literacy for children. I can see the similarities between these stages, and where I am in terms of digital literacy. I am beginning to explore different digital tools to develop in my digital literacy. While I am fairly new to many of the different tools, I have used some things that I am familiar with to learn these new aspects of digital literacy. Just as the different stages of emergent literacy build upon one another as a student becomes more literate, I am hoping that I am able to become more digital literate, and grasp new concepts that build upon what I know.
I, too, am trying to develop my digital literacy but feel that I may never catch up. I watch and listen to the kids in my field and am just amazing at the type of technologies they know and use daily. I think back to when I was a third grader and I don't remember using technology all that often. I recall taking a few typing tests to assess the number of words we could type per minute but that was about it. I see students now that have every version of play-station and DS systems and can navigate the internet better than I can. I feel that I am so new to many of the new technologies and have so much to learn to even come close to being literate with them.
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