{"id":84,"date":"2008-02-11T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-02-11T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T20:39:15","slug":"digital-immigrants-vs-digital-natives-im-a-digital-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/digital-immigrants-vs-digital-natives-im-a-digital-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives &#8212; I&#8217;m a Digital Pioneer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is talk about the &#8220;Digital Divide&#8221; in our classrooms.\u00a0 Digital immigrants are defined as those people who did not grow up with computers.\u00a0 Considering the IBM Personal Computer came into being August 12, 1981 (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_PC\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_PC<\/a>), digital natives would need to have been born after that time.\u00a0 And it was some time after that as the technology needed to be integrated into everyday lives.\u00a0 Digital natives grew up with technology (specifically computers) in their classrooms and in their homes.\u00a0 They are very comfortable with it.\u00a0 Digital immigrants had to take the <span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">initiative to learn about computers on their own or through their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">I have coined a new phrase, the Digital Pioneer!\u00a0 In high school, I took the only computer class available to us.\u00a0 It was an independent study course where we met in a closet to access the computers!\u00a0 From there, I studied computer programming and have been in some computer career ever since.\u00a0 So I am continuously learning about computer technology from mainframes, to PCs, Mac &#8211; Windows, networking, computer graphics, and virtual worlds.\u00a0 I am old enough to be classified as a digital immigrant, but\u00a0instead of being a labeled computer-geek, I think I prefer a Digital Pioneer!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is talk about the &#8220;Digital Divide&#8221; in our classrooms.\u00a0 Digital immigrants are defined as those people who did not grow up with computers.\u00a0 Considering the IBM Personal Computer came into being August 12, 1981 (\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_PC), digital natives would need to have been born after that time.\u00a0 And it was some time after that as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}