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[vivien]

Happy Birthday, Oh Captain, My Captain!

Have a wonderful one, capn_ahab


Okay, I have a serious request for my academic career. I need everyone to please comment me or email me (vivien529@aol.com) for a paper I'm researching. I need you to think back to senior year of high school/freshman year of college and list all items of technology that you personally used on a daily or weekly basis. Please list your dates, as well. I especially need my younger and/or non US Friends to contribute, but all data is welcome.

The paper is on How the digital divide between Digital Natives (those born in the late 80's) and Digital Immigrants (the rest of us) will affect teaching and learning internationally and I just want to get a feel of what all of your experiences with tech (from calculators to vcrs to video games to iPods to fancy tech doohickeys I have no clue about since I'm a DI)

Thank ya kindly in advance!

Comments

[pauraque]

I'm an American, born in 1982. I didn't go to college (or my senior year of high school), but it would have been about 2000, I guess.

At that time, my technology usage was probably about the same as at present. Phone, TV, VCR, radio, walkman, discman, stereo, turntable, Nintendo, PC (web, email, games, DVD ROM, etc.). Do you want nonstandard peripherals too? I had a flat-bed scanner. Calculators, I suppose. Does the thermostat count?

Though I was born in the early 80s, I'd consider myself a DN. I had my first computer at age seven, since my dad was one of the original computer geeks.

[vivien]

Though I was born in the early 80s, I'd consider myself a DN. I had my first computer at age seven, since my dad was one of the original computer geeks.

Thanks for all the info - I'm getting a nice cross section of folks. Another definition of DN's are folks who "came of age" before the late 80's. I just barely miss the cut off, but I am in the nice transitional generation that can help brisge the gap between DI and DN ;)

[misslucyjane]

My freshman year of college I had one of those 40-pound luggable computers. It had, probably, a 4in-by-8in screen, no color or graphics, and ran on IBM DOS. I had no printer, so I had to take floppy disks (3 1/2 inch ones, at least) to the computer lab for printing, which was all on dot matrix printers. Laser printers were 15 cents a page.

[vivien]

Thanks for the info, Jenna! Did you use the computer in high school as well? And when were you a freshman?

[misslucyjane]

Computer in high school: yes, we got a PC about 1984. My father was a programmer so we got into home computing early. I couldn't remember many details about it, though, which is why I didn't mention it. It ran on DOS, though ;).

I was a freshman in 1989-1990.

[capn-ahab.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the wishes my darling :)

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

[md-jess.livejournal.com]

I did senior in 99 - 2000. I used phone, internet, email, VCR, TV, CDs, floppy disks, IBM compatible computer games, Powerpoint, laptops, Scientific calculator, overhead projector, Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Word.

[md-jess.livejournal.com]

I forgot I also used watches, clocks, printers and photocopiers.

[vivien]

Thanks for the info :)

[md-jess.livejournal.com]

:) Your welcome.

[anamazonruns.livejournal.com]

Tek-noll-oh-gee?
Hmmm.

Born 1967. American, or Texan if that helps. Senior year of high school/freshman year of college was 1985.

I used ... a telephone, with a wire that went into the wall and this curly cord that connected the handset to the body of the phone.

I had no computer.

I had a handheld calculator, but I never used it because I was a music major!

I had no VCR, but I did have a TV that I watched a lot.

I had a cassette tape player/radio and I did use that all the time. Oh, and a RECORD PLAYER that I didn't use much.

I had a car.

No video games.

That's all I can think of!

[vivien]

Thanks dahlin! So how did you turn in papers? Did you hand write them or use a typewriter or none of the above?

Smooch!

[debellatrix.livejournal.com]

Well I graduated from HS in 77. And the most digital technology I used was a calculator (expensive in those days) and the big deal in audio was 8 track. Eek!

[vivien]

Well I graduated from HS in 77. And the most digital technology I used was a calculator (expensive in those days) and the big deal in audio was 8 track. Eek!

Hee hee. Thanks for the info ;)