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I would always adapt to technology and its advances pretty quickly as I grew up. This was the pattern up till the beginning of high school. I signed up for a computer class thinking it was some kind of typing class or something to do with computers that would be easy. Little did I know that that there was a whole other side to technology that I had never even seen before.
The name of this class was Intro to computer Programming, but when I saw the title it was abbreviated and instead said “Intro to comp.” You can see why one would this would be an easy class to take. I became lost the second the teacher started explaining what the class was about, which was programming and using C++ for the first year. My mind was telling me to get out of this class as quickly as possible, but something told me to stay and try it out. This was the first time I got really lost with technology and felt like an idiot since it seemed like everyone else knew what they were doing. This class was difficult from the beginning till the end, but after a while I understood what I was doing and studied my heart out to do well in the class. I ended up falling in love with the class and took a programming class every year for the rest of my high school career.
Now that I’m in college I plan on majoring in computer science and it was all thanks to signing up to the programing class by mistake my freshman year. Every now and then I’ll feel lost in the programming department for technology but studying and getting help always makes me overcome the obstacles and feeling good about myself again.
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Yes, the main similarity is that almost every other story I have read about usually includes some kind of situation that involves technology for the first time or trying to figure out a side of technology they have never been exposed to. Some differences are that the other stories had to do with hardware, like learning how to use an application for the first time or trying to figure out how to use the computer, while mine was about programming and what it’s used for.
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Being digitally literate doesn’t necessarily mean that you automatically know how to use technology the first time you approach it. It means that you’ve have plenty of experience with it by trial and error. Spending countless hours and days playing with your computer, iPod, or another device that you might have and learning how to use it like knowing the back of your hand is the experience I’m talking about. Digitally Literate means that you’ve gone the extra mile on learning how to use technology and using what you’ve learned to do something as simple as making life easier or using it to make the world a better place.
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As I’ve said before having the skill to use technology isn’t magically embedded into you the day you’re born. It happens when you’ve been growing around technology almost since the day you were born and being familiar with it. I can’t recall any memory of mine where I have been able to use technology and understand it completely for the first time. I have to become familiar with it first, play around with it, and if I’m too confused I usually get help and eventually I’ll understand what I’m looking at. Trial and error was mentioned several times in the other readings meaning that they weren’t able to magically use technology their first time as well. Everyone has to become familiar with it first and to be able to use it well on your first go most likely means you’ve used an earlier version of the technology or the first random thing you did was the right thing, but then that was just lucky and of course that happens to someone every now and then.
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