digital native

After taking the digital natives quiz I found out that I am considered a digital native. Although I did not know all of terms, I knew more than half. For me, I learn technology rather slowly and the only types I know are the ones taught to me through school. For example I would know nothing about blogging if I did not have this assignment. I had to teach myself how and what blogging is. I consider myself to be an emergent digital learner. I think this because I am learning new digital literacies day by day. Tompkins talks about emergent literacy learners as “participating in a variety of literacy activities ranging from modeled and shared reading and writing, during which they watch as teachers read, write…” This reminds me of our literacy’s project. I will need someone to model the new technology for me to understand it. I feel that I am interested in new technologies, but without someone to teach it to me, I will never learn it. I think that it is important to teach both the “old” literacy as well as the “new” digital literacy. In today’s society more and more literacy is being produced digitally. Now I think children around the kindergarten age can be emergent in both types of literacy. It all depends on when you are subjected to the literacy.