While I was reading the first article I kept thinking.. this girl is crazy! Then i realize I have similar tendencies and I check my social media often. I could relate to the first article in this sense because I do have a facebook account and a twitter. My writing is completely different on both. I feel that I write differently on each is  because im presenting it to different audiences. 

I feel many people have different varieties of social media accounts and use them for different reasons. I would imagine a twenty something female writing about her most embarrassing moment on match.com online profile. As humans in todays world with the technology we are using, we naturally have different sides and write differently on how we see fit.

People, professional people now use social media to promote their businesses. Teachers are using twitter to discuss classroom issues that use to be discussion only. The world is evolving and i don't necessarily think its a bad thing. When I was going through grade school, I was always so shy to answer. I would usually say the answer in my head, but unsure if it was correct and when it was i would want to kick myself for not expressing the answer. Imagine if a teacher posted a discussion or question on twitter or facebook and I had the freedom to write how I felt without feeling watched by my peers.. I would be proud of myself and my writing and would this give me the confidence to when i have a real classroom discussion I could participate in?

AIM, facebook, twitter, friendster and myspace to name a few of the many many that are out there is what is connecting people every where in many different ways. I talk to my best friend in california almost every day on facebook. It is amazing how I know what she is up to and who she hangs out with over there. My mother talks to our relatives in Germany and she learns new things about her family that we didn't know before social media because her father died when she was young. I find it amazing that people can connect in many different ways due to social media.

While I was reading this article, so many things came to mind. I thought about when I was first introduced to the computer. I was in Elementary School and it was such a big thing.. My school only had a few and we had to take turns on them. Then as the years went by the library had gotten more and more and soon we were going to the library not to read books, but to use the computers.

I do believe I am a digital native. I was young when this generation started but I remember learning quickly and helping the teachers use this technology. As I progressed through elementary to middle school to high school the computers were used more often. Most of my teachers were digital immigrants and still today I have professors who prefer to not use those technologies. I usually get very frustrated when they do not answer my e-mails because this is the way the world is moving. Instead of credit card statements coming via snail mail, I go paperless and get it e-mailed. I love that I can e-mail Rowan instead of wasting gas and driving up there every time I have an issue or a question. 

I think I am in the perfect time to be going through my teacher preparation program because I can become a teacher who is fully prepared and up to date with technologies. Even in the elementary setting, I can see Twitter being used or even blogging. Instead of having my students do a daily journal in their notebooks they can pull out their laptops, writing a blog and posting it to our classroom website.

The article discussed that teachers today should be able to teach both digital natives and digital immigrants. I do agree with that statement but I don't think it will be needed for the future. All of the digital immigrant teachers will be retired and digital natives are going to be digitally advanced and we being the teachers will have to step up our game and apply these technologies in the classroom. 

I really like the idea of teachers creating video games to teach a lesson, that is how today's world is. Everyone I know.. young and old.. play Xbox! If we related a math lesson or history lesson using xbox, the students will be able to relate so easily and learn at the same time. Thats is how teaching should be done to keep interest and to have fun. Most students don't even realize how much they are learning while they are enjoying themselves.

The classic digital immigrant does say to learn and study in a quiet place like a library or in your room with no music or TV.. I am one of those people that need that background noise.. Even if it a fan or TV with low volume. Many people I know my age and younger are just like me. That "no noise" while studying is as almost outdated as cursive writing. 

This article definitely took me down memory lane when I started using technologies and how I grew into the learner I am now and the teacher I will become. I think it's exciting to be in the digital generation I am now. I find it even more exciting that the technologies will grow and expand and I just have to make sure I keep on learning and updating my knowledge.