Digital+Immigrants+and+Natives

media type="custom" key="12544248" align="left" width="104" height="104"In my first year of teaching, I will, hopefully, have more knowledge of the digital world and better skills with its creations than my students. I am considered a "digital native" therefore, I should have the ability to keep up with the changes. However, as I get older, I find myself becoming more lax in my ways. My students in ten years will mostly likely be teaching me new things in the world of technolgy because these children will not know anything different. That is why, in shcool, I must teach using both methods, digitally, so that I may relate to my students but also from physical books and writing on paper, to keep the grounded for personal interaction. As our 21st century skills evolve we are becoming less social on a personal level and our right to privacy is/has gone out the window. I beleive that face-to-face interaction is a major part of one's life. I can only imagine a world of being married "on-line" or trying to teach a child to ride a bike from a you tube video. Dont get me wong, I use techonolgy everyday all day long, but I dont want to have to solely rely on it because somehow when you need it the most it is most unreliable. I am very excited to see what new techology becomes available but I am also afraid of what repercussion it may bring too. media type="custom" key="12544494" align="left" Tools of Technology: Creatity- Pintrest, Symbuloo, blurb Innovation- blogs, any type of social network, publishing networks Critical Thinking- Smartboards, twitter, Problem Solving- howstuffworks, youtube, Communication- skype, facebook and twitter Collaboration- blurb, GoogleDocs, wikispaces