Immigrants of the Digital Age

Wow, crazy month. Not sure how I ever used to fit in working every day as well as studying. Things seem just as busy as they did then, although admittedly more of it is things I do by choice rather than necessity.

I went to a school assembly last week where the principal gave the students a great message on being safe on the internet. These are middle schoolers so they pretty much swim in the sea of the web everyday. They are of course what we now call 'digital natives' - those born and growing up in this new web-dominated world.

Our generation has been described as 'digital immigrants' and we will always I guess speak with an accent. I was talking with some parents after the assembly and I realised that a lot of us unconsciously choose to only learn a few key phrases out of the phrasebook!I want to be fluent in the language and topography of cyberspace and have gone out of my way to do so, and feel I am the richer for it.

The internet and all that goes with it, Facebook, Twitter etc is here to stay and we live here too - time to ditch the phrase book and go exploring with the natives.