Week 5: Blog

Reflection

In this week, in the very beginning,  T. Patty made the clarification concerning the information and notice of the homework and gave us a clear direction of the assigned activities of this course. The assigned activities could be divided into three parts in terms of interactive problem-solving tasks, weekly journals and written work. Latter on, we continued the discussion of digital natives and digital immigrants. In addition, Patty gave us a kind reminder to the richness of communication media of the work. That is, we can complete our tasks in various forms such as text, graphics, and video, face-to-face interaction, or audio. At last, we stared the new topic of the week--blog, and tried to figure out what is a blog and what is a blog for. After the brief discussion, we also read a short story called "a story of 5 stages of a blogger" to end the discussion. 

After the clear slide, I realized all the activities that we need to do in class. But when I was observing in class it seemed that some classmates were still not into it, i.e., did not know how the class is organized. Maybe they required more time or guide to engage in class. As for task 2, I searched the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" on google and found the first appearance of the two terms from Prensky (2001). Therefore, I read full paper and try to distinguish the difference. However, based on his description, it is obvious that the notable difference is on the perception of using technology. In my opinion, Prensky's idea is innovative but it's in totally correct in reality because there is a boundary between both group.