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it has been a v sad morning and i have only been awake for 5 minutes

saw a tweet yesterday that had a video of a cat cuddling up with their owner which made me have a dream of 5 cats cuddling up to me

Do digital natives exist?

A digital native can be simply defined as someone who is unfamiliar with periods of time without digital technology, such as computers and the Internet.  Revision of articles written by individuals, such as American writer and public speaker, Marc Prensky, establishes this understanding of the theory of who and what digital natives are, as well as ‘digital immigrants’ who adapted the age of digital technology later in their lives (Prensky, 2001).

Whilst there are individuals who do not believe in the idea of digital natives, I personally believe that the concept of ‘digital natives’ has a lot of evidence constructed by theorists like Prensky, who attempt to understand the changes that may need to be undertaken to be able to adapt education to the needs of newer generations (Gu, Zhu & Guo, 2011).

But what evidence has persuaded me enough to encourage me to agree with these scholars?  The idea that there are individuals who find it difficult to relate and understand those who are technology savvy lead me to believe that this concept of digital natives is in fact true, and it can often seem as though these individuals have a different sense of communication and language to older generations.  The way in which digital natives learn and receive information, as well as their preferences of digital media, is proven different to digital immigrants (Vercic & Vercic, 2013).  However, although all digital natives are classified under the same term, those from different time periods are in fact quite different to each other.  For instance, a digital native from 2001, when compared to a 2016 digital native, have both had different experiences with digital technology and therefore are more adapted to the form of media more prevalent within their own age. Finally, modifications made in schools, such as introduction of tablets in learning, demonstrates the differences in development between different digital natives, in which individuals have been allowed to flourish in a more modern sense.

Reference List:

Vercic, A T., & Vercic D. (2013). Digital natives and social media. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0363811113001215?via%3Dihub

Gu, X., Zhu, Y., & Guo, X. (2013). Meeting the “Digital Natives”: Understanding the Accepting of Technology in Classrooms. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0363811113001215?via%3Dihub

some people blog so their future self can read back on their past. others do it for fun, some do it for money. there’s so many reasons that people blog.

but i wonder why i suddenly just got interested in blogging again (i did this once in like year 8 )(i rlly wish i didn’t delete the posts on that blog). back then i did it because i thought it was so cool. i was so in love that i always wrote poems and cheese shit about how amazing they were wow.

anyway i’m here to blog just because i wanna! hopefully my mind accepts this as a way to vent my personal thoughts n feelings and my inner convos. (as u can see i talk to myself a lot), you can tell when i’m doing it cause i’m using brackets (like this haha) (i already did this like 4 times in this post).

i hope i think up of something every couple of days to post! to the 5 of you who are still online and alive, i hope u stick with me through this phase HAHHA (if not, i 100% understand your decision to unfollow

i love music (everyone does allan wow u r so special). 

i love how just a composition of 3-5 minutes can mean so much to you. sure you can enjoy the song as it is at face value, but you also enjoy it more depending on who you’re with and where you are. and depending on those two factors and how memorable it is/was, you can attach a memory to a song.

of course this can be both good and bad. i remember not being able to listen to korean songs anymore because the memories associated with it was rlly sad, but i eventually made new memories that managed to overwrite that. its amazing right???

now i just want to continue attaching good memories to different songs. i want to listen to a song in the future and be like ‘wow, i remember where i was and how i felt back then’ and hopefully feel that moment again. i feel like i have really good friends right now and i will be able to attach something to what’s happening at the moment.

there are still a few songs out there that i’m still not able to enjoy again but i don’t want to make the effort to attach new memories to it. it’s a bittersweet feeling knowing you enjoy something but mentally you’re not allowed to. it’s a feeling that i can hopefully learn from.

anyway this was a 3am rant. love u all

just finished gym! hopefully I can start being consistent again if my injury doesn’t act up anymore

it’s rlly sad because I had a 5 day a week schedule for gym back in November but I overworked my left hand aaaaa (it was rlly sad that the injury happened because my friend was in Vietnam and we were full hyping us working out together)

the injury apparently was a muscle strain near the thumb (didn’t even fully understand what was going on, doctor just said to not pull or strain it for the next month). I didn’t push it for like 2 months but the pain was still there

anyway hopefully the pain doesn’t come back, I’m going with friends now and they seem keen to learn!!