1.I always had been the person that is behind when it comes to the new technology out. I was the last of my friends to get a cell phone, laptop, even camera. I’ve always tried to not start relying on technology because I truly believe it will one day be the demise of the human race in some way. Whether it’s our health, or learning abilities, or even just life itself, but I won’t get into that. The most technological device my family owns, well to me, is probably our IPad; and Microsoft Word is reassuring me that this is a new technology because it isn’t yet a word in the spell check dictionary, unlike “IPod” which is considered a word. When my parents brought home the IPad I looked at it kind of confused, like it was an alien from a different planet or something. I honestly didn’t even know how to turn it on much less use the IPad to its full potential. I’m not the type of person who is going to read an instruction manual, I’ve gotten through my entire life not yet using one; the IPad was not going to defeat me. I just continued messing with the IPad until I got use to using it. It still amazes me that my finger can be used at a mouse. I finally figured out how to download apps, I’m not going to tell you how long because it is kind of embarrassing, but I downloaded games that’s the important part. If it wasn’t for my determination to figure out the IPad the phone I just got would have taken me three times as long to figure out, I also would have had no idea how to use the mac computers at the emporium. My parents’ buying the IPad actually is a technology that I consider a defying moment in my ability to adapt to other technologies in my life.
2.There are many similarities, not in the experience I just wrote about but in my life for sure. On the digital literacy online Molly wrote about how she used AIM and Myspace. I actually laughed out loud it brought back so many memories of how into my profiles I would get. I would literally spend hours deciding which song or background color I should choose to shoe “who I really am.” Unlike Molly I did not use the internet to creep on boys I had a crush on or girls I didn’t like. I always used technology in a positive way.
3.The digital literacy narratives that I read weren’t exactly informative on their opinions of what being digitally literate means. They just simple wrote about their use of technology through life. I on the other hand truly believe being someone who is digitally literate just gets technology. When I say the get technology I mean it comes easy to them they can just look at a digital task and do it, no questions asked.
4,Each statement I made on the ability to be digitally literate is simply an opinion. There is no fact or wrong or right answer. I have come to this conclusion through the experiences in my life where people older than me have taught me something new with technology. These are people who are not the “digital Natives,” I am. I am awful with technology we just don’t go well together. For instance I didn’t even know how to set up my printer or turn the alarm off on a clock in my dorm room so I just unplugged it. I have to be taught to do these things; I am not digitally literate even though I am considered to be digitally native.
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