Thursday, January 8, 2009

Reflection Questions

I first learned how to use the computer when my uncle gave us an old Macintosh, he was always riding the technilogical wave we were drowning in and would periodically reach down and help us distance ourselves from that torrentually techy sea. A few years later he gave us an imac for christmas. It was an amazing gift, and the whole family was really excited to try it out. The internet was just stating to become affordable/usable at that time, and about a week after christmas, when we got the imac, we got internet and that was the first time i'd ever used it. Years later i tried myspace.....and for the most part, i hated it, but used it because i wanted to feel connected to friends. Three years later i started using facebook and I don't love it, but it's the best way i know to keep in touch with everyone....so, i'm kinda stuck. Supplementary online support, well, I can see it as a nice way to have all the material you need as long as you're next to a computer with the internet. But the disidvantage I see is that you obviously can't take a computer with you everywhere and have one on you in every situation so sometimes it will be necessary to have hard text.

1 comment:

  1. i jake, that's really cool getting an imac as christmas gift! i wish i had the same experience when i first learned how to use the computers and the internet more than a decade ago. you, along with other millennial students, are what most scholars consider to be 'digital natives' and it is for you that the paradigm shift in education is starting to happen.

    your last comment really hits home. with the ubiquity of technology and online practices, it is sometimes easy to forget the value of print literacy when in reality both print and digital literacy should complement each other.

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