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Digital Immigrant

Want to feel old? Try explaining to a group of kids that you had never seen a cell phone until you were in high school. Never mind the fact that the cell phones people had first didn’t do anything other than make phone calls. We didn’t know what texting was until college. As for social media we had AIM. That is if you were lucky enough to have access to a computer and internet at home. As for myself the first computer I can remember seeing was in computer class in middle school. Most of what we did was typing but on special occasions we played Oregon Trail. I can remember getting our first home computer. Then a few years later we got internet. It’s funny to think of the sound that it made as it tried to connect to the internet,the amount of time it took to get connected and then the hoping no one would call so you didn’t get kicked off.

My kids think I’m joking, they can’t help but be digital natives. They’ve worked on computers and tablets in school since kindergarten. In a way I think it’s a good thing that the next generation will be so tech savvy, yet I can’t help but wonder at what cost. I work with more and more kids that have poor fine motor skills, a problem that has been linked to more time with technology and less time playing and exploring with their bodies. For example less time building with blocks, playing with play dough and coloring. Then there are also the kids that live in digital realities. I’ve worked with children who can’t process the fact that minecraft isn’t a real world. They’ve spent so much time there that they start to believe that it is reality. I’m hoping that by the next generation society will have figured out a balance of when to use technology and when to turn it off.

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Digital immigrant or Digital Native

I did my research I find that a digital native can be defined as a person who was born after the introduction of Digital Technology. Digital natives use online services like Facebook. YouTube, Hulu, and Twitter on various digital technologies. Such as smart phones or a tablet device. Digital Natives have blended their online life with their offline life. The term for digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology for Digital Immigrants. The popular technology, for them was radio,television,newpapers,books and magazines. Digital immigrants are adapting to the digital technology introduced during their life time. I think I am a Digital immigrant the reason I say that is I have limited resources about social media and networking. I just started texting on my phone. I was so use to talking on the phone didn't realize it was a thing you can text the person instead of actually getting on the phone speaking to the person. I think I am a beginner thinker when it come to socializing with people and I am a one task person . I am so glad I sign up for a social media course . Because in today world you need to be a Digital Native .

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1st Gen Immigrant

I was born in 1985, which makes me 31 today. I realize that I was born in a very special time in history. I remember cassettes. I remember making collect calls from the movie theater or after school sports to get a ride home. I remember getting a cell phone and the only thing I could do on it was play a stupid little game called snake, or call Mom if I really needed to. I grew up in a house that had a computer, but all I did on it as a kid was play PacMan. We didn’t get the internet until I was in middle school.

There aren’t a lot of people who can straddle the fence like this. I feel lucky enough to remember a time when if you made plans with someone, you kept them, because there was no last minute text option to cancel. I remember a time when instant gratification wasn’t the norm and things were not always at our fingertips. There was a time before Wikipedia, when real encyclopedias existed, and sometimes I even asked a real librarian, in a library, for help.

However, technology was introduced at a very young age. We did have that computer upstairs that barely did anything. I also had the original Nintendo. When I was 14 and got my first cell phone, I figured that thing out in a day (there wasn’t much to it). I was also eager to learn about technology and saw how important it was going to be.

Alas, despite my familiarity with technology, I am an immigrant. I was not born into a world with a Facebook account. I signed up for one as a freshman in college, at the age of 18. While I work at an Apple store, and my life is literally inundated with technology, it has not always been this way.

I feel that being young enough to embrace technology wholeheartedly, yet old enough to remember a time without it, puts me and people around my age in a funny situation. There aren’t many of us, and we will soon be seen as old. We will be those people who actually had a visor in their car full of CD’s we burned ourselves using files downloaded from Napster. I consider it a privilege to have known both worlds first-hand, lucky enough to easily embrace change at a young age, yet mature enough to realize the value in a world that relied less on technology and more on interpersonal connections, local neighborhoods, and physical communities that we partook in more actively. There are so many great things about technology and how it connects people differently, but there was a quaint-ness, almost provincial feeling about growing up in a suburb of Boston without an internet connection and only a single telephone for my family of four.

Those days are never coming back, unless I marry someone Amish. I am one of the youngest “digital immigrants” around, but I am still an immigrant, just first generation. I’m like, off the boat immigrant, but I was probably about twelve years old. Like any person who arrives in a foreign land at 12, I have embraced this new world and feel comfortable here, but I have not forgotten where I came from.

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Digital Immigrant or Digital Native

I am definitely a digital immigrant. I graduated from high school in the late 80s and I remember when computers took up a whole room. I actually learned to keyboard on a typewriter. The highlight of my first typing days was when typewriters came with corrector ribbons instead of having to use typing erasers and re-positioning of the paper on the typewriter to make corrections.

My first forage into the world of computers came when I entered the military. I was trained as an electronics technician, so there were CPUs in some of the calibration equipment used to do my job. The computer system popular in the Air Force, in the 90s was a CAMs system. Basically, it was a huge word processing ordering system to input work orders and parts ordering. The background was black and the writing was green. It was a very DOS like system.

When I returned to the civilian world, word processors were popular and when I started college, in 2000, that was what I did my homework on. My first term of college, I took the introductory class for Microsoft Office and spent so much time at the computer lab, at school, that my husband gifted me with my first computer.

We lived in the country, so our first internet experience was dial up. After some time, cable internet came to the sticks and finally broadband. It took me forever to set up my MySpace account so that I could interact with my children and nieces and nephews who lived away. Thank goodness for my millennial babies because they taught me everything that I know about using a computer and interacting with social media. I will never forget when my youngest soon, then 8, walked me through making a pie graph in Word.

Being a digital immigrant means that you have to be humble enough to learn from people who are younger than you and be adventurous enough to be willing to step into the digital unknown. I learn something new, every day and I am enjoying the journey.

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Digital Immigrant, 80s born, 90s bred, Cursive Writing San Diego Native

Digital Immigrant or Digital Native?

Either #NECImmigrant or #NECNative.

This’ll be my first Tumblr post in my New England College Social Media course. Since I spent a few hours the first week reading from the book, I missed the obvious digital, social networking, and online and live aspect of the class. I had an app influx on my iPhone, and my gf (nine years younger than I) had to give me a tutorial to flush out unused applications. So, I’ve gotten my necessary updates, and meanwhile, I’ve got a postcard bookmark in my text, Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. “Simply put, the groundswell is a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other instead of from companies.” (1.) They’re expanding on their work begun in their 2006 Forrester Report “Social Computing” analyzing Internet culture and strategizing in the digital world. The first chapter of the book is a call to action. Companies and institutions won’t be able to wield their own flags regarding their branding or brand role. The people and the public attitude will be more involved in the complete perception. Social media perceptions will be involved, impacting even identity. I was more involved in careful note-taking and flipping/reading through pages in a book. Now, I’ll have to contribute to an online community and will carve a shape in the Cloud using words, images, videos, and spirit.

So, I’m savvy enough to be able to distance myself from Rick Clancy. (2.) He’s an astute old school guy, who’s lost in the new online world of Likes, Crowd Sourcing, and Yelping. I’m not overwhelmed with my own online identities. I’ve already got a system to remembering my passwords, including capitalization and unusual character variations. Yet, I’m typing with an ink pen and writing journal beside me. As I mentioned, I use a bookmark, and my favorite thing to collect, when I go on a physical trip, is a postcard. I’ll use postcards as bookmarks, when I read a real soft or hardcover book. When I finish these “ancient” texts, I put the book on what we once called bookshelves. Sometimes, my old-fashioned heart writes a cute note on the postcard, and I snail mail it with an actual licked-on stamp. Finally, as I make my declaration as a Digital Immigrant, my postcards are sent to an actual human being, who’ll read my cursive handwriting with their own eyes. They’ll collect the postcard with their own hands into a shoe-box to collect real dust.

“A digital immigrant is someone who went to school and learned with a teacher in front of the classroom. And they had a pencil in their hand, and a pad of paper. They learned from paper. They learned from books. That’s how their brain is wired, to learn from actual tangible things.” (3.) I scrawled Molly McPherson’s words in a scribbled cursive shorthand, while I watched the video. Needless to say, whenever I’ve got my mind available for world absorption, I’ll best have a fine writing ink pen and paper pad ready, even if all I need is to click save.

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(1.) Li and Bernoff. Book Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies (2011) page xii

(2.) Li and Bernoff Book Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies (2011) page xi

(3.) McPherson, Molly Lecture One: Introduction to Social Media

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Digital Immigrant

When growing up the schools did not have a lot of technology as today there was not even a computer. There was only tv and radio and no fancy cell phone’s as today. Old schooled I had to write everything in note books. The teacher was reading and we have to write everything and she also wrote on the board. Enormous change now with new technology and I try to keep up I do have a new apple computer an iPad and Iphone and my kids are Native they get everything in school from ipads to laptops and apple computers. I try to learn with this everchanging landschape. It is amazing the technology only a lot of peope are not talking to each other anymore if I am in the supermarket everyone is busy on the cell phone teksting, from kids in the shopping cart till grandmothers. I love the Iphone it is so easy you have everywere your email right at your finger tips. With Skype you can reach and talk to everyone around the globe it is amazing that I can talk daily to people overseas and I can also see them. Lots of people are using some kind of form of social media it is amazing and fun. Happy to be part of this generation although i did not grow up with it I learn about the great benefitsa and uses it every day. You can take pics now everywhere with your Iphone and no more camera’s with film rolls. You can even take video’s with your iPhone.

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Digital Immigrant or Digital Native

I would say that I am a digital immigrant, growing up in the 80's, I wasn't exposed at and early age. The only thing I remember having was a pager, we didn't have a computer at home, so the only time I used a computer was at school. Technology is definitely way different today than it was back then. I do feel we all are a little of both digital immigrant and digital native. It is important to realize that not all digital immigrants and not all digital natives are created equal, people were either born in the digital era or they were not.

Technology has changed so rapidly over the years, people will need to become more of a digital native. I am becoming more familiar with technology, computers, tablets/iPads, smart phones, and a little better with social media. I use a computer daily for work, school, and online games. I believe it was 2010 when I first started my Facebook page, so that I could keep in touch with friends and family. I have not ever used twitter, storify, tumblr, and klout, so I am unfamiliar how to work these social media pages.

In the world we are living in, we not only enjoy social media, we depend on it! Whether for business, entertainment, loneliness and heartache we know we can rely on it. I am excited to learn along with everyone else, technology has gone along way in many ways. I do envy the technology kids have today that would have been helpful when I was growing up. It can be a lot of fun, but it is also confusing and difficult at times to navigate through.

I completely agree that change can be better, and in some ways it has been, but it can also be bad. We tend to spend less time with our loved ones when our faces are stuck in a screen. In many ways it has sped up progress with just a click, but it has also taken away from real family time. There are pros and cons.

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I am a digital immigrant. First, I want to say that I love most of this new digital world and especially the things that are now possible because of it. I don’t like digital books or manuals because I feel like I understand things better with a physical book in my hand. So if I had a choice, I would choose a physical book instead of an online one. Another thing that I don’t like are the digital albums that you can get off of places like iTunes instead of a physical cd. To me, it takes the experience of buying a album, being excited to go to the store and listening to the music while looking at the artwork. Maybe am just old school, but these two things I think really makes me a digital immigrant.

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