class this week

I had dabbled in podcasting in the past, but it has been awhile since I created one for myself. I enjoyed watching/listening to the others in the class create their own. I think that last week in class we as a group exemplified what learning is about, exploring and problem solving with eachother. While trouble shooting the issues with posting to the wiki page there were many ideas offered and avenues tested in order to come up with the best way to have all the podcasts posted. Since we worked as a team we were able to complete the assigned task. This is how I think digital immigrants learn and understand the new technologies that are available. We play around, and receive advice from others. Right now I don't believe that we have truly encountered any digital natives. The amount of new technology that has become available within the last 5 years would mean that the only true digital natives are not even school age yet. Since I do not have children of my own, I am not around kids under 5 and therefore do not think that I surround myself with the truly "digital native". Since we have passed the chance of being digital natives, we as immigrants must work on learning and using the technologies we have available, using eachother can only better our chances.