My kids are digital natives.
They don’t know a time,
Without the internet, email and cell phones.
They can watch “TV”
on the TV or on the Disneychannel.com.
Club Penguin, Webkins, and other virtual
worlds for kids are their play grounds.
When my son was 3 he could
out-mouse his grandmother
They think it novel,
when we talk of the old days.
I wrote letters,
with pen and paper,
to their mom when she
was away at college.
Cell phones now ubiquitous,
once we used pay phones.
4 out of 5 us have a cell phone,
sharing minutes, keeping linked together.
Reality is we are all becoming more digital:
More with each email,
more with each cell call,
more with each mouse click.
We are digital immigrants,
traveling further and further
from an analog, snail-mail, world,
Into the natural digital world
our kids inhabit as naturally as
drinking a glass of water.
April 26, 2008
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