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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!

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[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 ;)