Stradling the fence
I keep coming back to the native versus non thing. I have compe to teh conclusion that I am still on the fence in a few ways but want to become more digital.
For example I have noticed that I have changed many of my email habits since last summer. I have switched almost all of my email communications to my Gmail account. I still download email to my offline Outlook program but dont get in a hurry to look at it. I have begun to feel that if it goes to the old account it isnt important. What increases the strangness factor is that I control my own email server and have it set up so that I can do email reading through a web browser, yet I dont.
I also have been beveloping a desire to have access to all of my files all the time. I know that I have files at home I weant at school and vice versa. Why do I need them. I have found that my desire to do this has increased since I got a DSL line and have the bandwidth to actually do it. Mostly it is me being at school and konwing the file is at home.
I wonder if there are others like that.
March 12th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
I want access to everything, all the time, from everywhere. I thought it was greed, but perhaps not. Seriously, though, I did a little thinking about this myself last week but for a different reason. As you may know, I’m taking a class and we’re studying the various learning theories and writing critiques of those. Our latest paper was about constructivism and there are virtually a dozen different “flavors” of that theory. One that caught my eye was cultural constructivism. While there are various definitions of that, essentially it refers to the different ways people construct knowledge as a result of the cultural artifacts, events, and knowledge that influence them during the construction. Computers and the internet have changed the way I think, the way I work, the way I communicate, and the way I am.