Digital native or digital immigrant?

After watching video "Digital Native vs. Digital Immigrant" by Sree Sreenivasan, I feel, most of the time, I am a digital native. Sreeivasan defines digital natives as those who "Are born into a hyper-connected world and they believe everything should be on demand in real time." I do born in this kinds of hyper-connected world, know the potential of technology, and feel frustrated if the technology is not used in both my studies and real life.

However, in the meantime, I would rather say I feel a bit uncomfortable (not frustrated) with not knowing how to use technology myself. I am afraid of embracing technology, but sometimes I am a bit lazy to learn how to use a new technology if there is nobody showing me how to use it. Therefore, it is a bit difficult for me to keep up with the latest technology.

To sum up, I like the conclusion made by Sreenivasan, "Let's look at each individual one at a time and consider what they bring to the table no matter what the age is." Indeed, what matters is not what age a person is or where they are coming from, but what a person can do to make this world better.

WHAT and HOW Can Podcasting Do?

Podcasting gives learners opportunities to access to any information they are interested in even when they are busy. Learners can also gain knowledge through listening Podcasting even outsides the classrooms. I believe Podcasting can meet students' learning needs and help them move from their current competent level to the next level.

The Podcasting software I chose was NPR. This Podcasting website covers a wide rage of topics from global issues, common knowledge to different types of music genres. Among those topics, I chose the episode named The World Is A Family Tree 'In Its All Relative'. I would use this as an after-class activity for my ESL students to practice their listening after having lessons about intercultural interactions.

The learning objective of this lesson falls under performance indicator- ESL. C.9-12.1.1.2: Students read, gather, view, listen to, organize, discuss, interpret, and analyze information related to academic content areas from various sources. When students are listening this Podcasting, students cannot only gain content knowledge on this topic but, in a meanwhile, develop their English competence and skills while engaging in content-based learning.

To sum up, I believe Podcasting can meet the needs of diverse levels of learners and can be applied to different kinds of lesson based on the chosen Podcasting topics. Podcasting enables learners to gain content knowledge almost anytime and anywhere, which is conducive for their learning.