1. Most of us are in their twenties. Would you refer to you as a "Digital Native" (Alvermann 21) or "Digital Immigrant"?
2. "In the industrial-consumer state, education is organized to serve the goal of economic growth". (Alvermann 23) Isn't education rather about personal growth? In my opinion we should organize it to serve the goal of humanistic values rather than only the goal of economic growth.
3. Alvermann shows that "research on young people's engagement with multimodal texts has shown, learning with multiple signs systems often helps even the least motivated and underachieving readers redefine their literate competence" (26). Shouldn't learning with multiple sign systems be integrated in the curricula throughout the country? Is it integrated already? If yes, to what extend?
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It is an interesting question for those of us who grew up in the 90's. We watched the birth of the internet (really) and the ipod/cell phone craze. We remember when people had beepers. Still- we do not track back to a time of typewriters and record players. In a way, as time goes on we are all immigrants because the technology changes so rapidly. I feel more like a native who has watched the country "grow up"
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