Blogging immigrant

Part of this weeks reading assignment, Kajder, chapter 3, made me feel that I was in good company.  I am obviously part of the group that she describes as digital immigrants.  I am definitely part of the group born before 1986 (though not way before) and am trying to make the adjustment to a more technologically advanced way of life.  Not that I am a cave-person or anything, I did grow up with a computer in my home, and actually used it a little in high school.  However, to do any sort of research (or anything else really) on said computer would have taken FOREVER.  We had a dial up connection to AOL, and I hardly used the computer to do schoolwork in the same way I find myself using it now.  I think that the students born after 1986 who are going to be teachers have a definite advantage in that respect becuase they have an awareness of technology and how it can be used in the classroom (becuase they expienced it) that I am still trying to adjust to.  I cannot imagine having a cell phone in school, let alone using it as part of the curriculum.  There is definitely a huge generation gap in just a few short years.  Hopefully I'll have it all figured out by the time I start teaching.