Blog for LAI590

OPINIONS ON DIGITAL NATIVES AND DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS               (MOD#11) One of the videos that I watched stated that "digital natives" are those who were born after 1980 and those who are "digital immigrants are those born prior to 1980. Based on this assumption, I should be considered a "digital native," as I was born in 1990, but I'm not really sure if it is that black and white. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I feel that the digital age was in its infancy. When I was a little kid, the internet was just becoming accessible and I was still playing 16-bit video games. The digital world was still basic. However, nowadays, many people are being born into a world where WIFI is the norm and video games are rendered in near real life graphics with high tech virtual reality gaming coming into prominence. Even though I am a digital native, I feel that many elementary school aged children are actually more capable than me when it comes to technological ...

Professional Development With Twitter and 'Twitter Chat':                        (MOD#6 P1)      The Twitter chat that I participated in was the Educational Technology Chat or #edtechchat . I chose this one because, not only did it start at a good time for me, but also it is extremely relevant to the LAI 590 class. Before I get into the details of the Twitter Chat and of how I believe it can be beneficial to professional development, I would like to share an event of how Twitter itself has been beneficial to me as an educator after just only a few days of signing up for the website. When I was looking for 10 educators/ microbloggers in my are of study to follow, I found it very difficult because there are not many 'Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL)' teachers out there to connect with, so I tried a bit harder. I found " The Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland Inc. (MLTAQ) " on Twitter and sa...

CONNECTIVISM (MOD#5 post1) Today, a learner is like a GPS. If it wants to find a destination, it has to know the correct routes to get there. A typical GPS has thousands of roads stored on it and to get to the correct destination, it has to sort between all of the unnecessary roads and the roads that lead to that destination. Then, based on that information, it chooses the quickest route among them to get to where it was asked to go. Another critical key point about a GPS as well is that it needs to be kept up-to-date. It may know how to get to a destination today, but in the future, because of road changes and changes to the environment, if it's not kept current, it may not be able to get us to the same destination using the same route as it was able to before or there may be an easier and faster route it would not know about. Therefore, it is important that it is given updates, so that it stays efficient and doesn't fall into obsoletion. If you didn't understand the ...