Laura m. Green

    Ok let me put it out there before I get any further I’m the biggest procrastinator. Everything is so much more important then what I am doing. Technology is the biggest factor for my procrastination. So for me technology is a big distraction. Especially when I am doing things for school. The worst form of distraction is my computer. There are so many other things I could be doing besides my work. I have to check Facebook someone probably sent me something, and then I forget all about what I was doing. Then if I don’t want to check facebook I will check my email.

    I don't even try to watch TV and do my homework, or even listen to the radio. There is always something more important on TV then what I am doing.  I wish I was good with multi tasking but I’m not. I see a lot of other students with headphones in while they are reading; I think to myself how they do it.

    It’s hard not to be a digital native in the generation I grew up in. I got my first computer when I was five, and from then I have had a computer ever since. I have had it all desktops, laptops, phones, and now an iPad. I don't really remember the last time when I had to hand something in that was hand written and not typed. Two years ago I had to teach my dad how to use the computer, even though it was in our house he barely touched it. He is now hooked on craigslist. I was never really taught how to use a computer it just seemed to come natural. 

    The scariest thing is the fact that children that I teach when I graduate could know more about technology then I do. I got my first phone when I was sixteen; now a day’s kids are getting cell phones at eight years old, sometimes even younger. What if when I get older my children will have to teach me how to use something? But for now I consider myself a digital native.