I got goose bumps watching the Youtube segment. Why couldn’t I be in my young 20’s with all this at my finger tips?? Wait…I do have it all at my finger tips- I just wasn’t rasied tapping a messeage to my bff- I have a learning curve and if I want to keep up with my 12 year old and any other young person- I better get with the program!
I am at awe at the opportunities my son, and first graders I teach, will have to be so connected to everyone, anywhere, anytime- it opens the whole world up- figuratively and literally! So many ways to get your point across and hear, see, feel (visulally and musically enhanced that is) others ideas, digital media truly allows the world to be smaller.
I know just enough to be dangerous, but I would be willing to learn more to enhance my teaching and engage my students. Cell phones are probably in theit near future ( my son had his first one at ten years of age. The freedom that allowed for both of us was liberating ) but I know they know what one is and how they work. You know they all have had their hands on a keyboard and ipods are as much a necessity as the DS and PS they play. It is their world. It is all some of them have known. Sure, I have had the luxury of having seen some of the metamorphism of this digital world. I have owned vinyl records, eight track tapes, cassette tapes and they have given way to my itouch. Maybe this allows me to be impressed. But imagine ( I am not sure I can) what THEY will see…
Reflection: This whole post was reflective in nature. The older I get, the more I have to reflect on!
