Digital Immigrant):

I took the “Digital Native” quiz and got fifty percent right so I would say I am a digital immigrant. I wasn’t really surprised by the results. I would definitely put myself into the emergent stage as far as digital or technological development. As a kid I wasn’t allowed to play video games, I didn’t have a cell phone until late in high school and it stayed in the car, and I didn’t use a computer consistently until college. My main access to technology has been through boyfriends and friends since I came to college. Technology, though it was out there, when I was younger was never a part of my immediate environment. One of the things Tomkins talks about being important to the early development of literacy is exposure to it in the individual’s everyday environment. I feel I big part of why I am only just a digital immigrant is because technology is just now becoming a part of my everyday surroundings. Now a days, my cell phone never leaves my side and for the most part neither does my laptop. If my parents or some of my close friends had been this way when I was growing up and brought technology into my daily life I think I would see the world from the perspective of a digital native today. However, that is not the case so I will continue to struggle along.