Grad Tech Class…..Quite The Trip

My first day in a graduate technologies class…..My first week in graduate school…..My head is spinning. I am a first time graduate student, an adult student at that, with a core background in Mathematics. I thought to myself before the start of the week “what a breeze” I love to learn, I love to challenge myself, I love to explore!” Then came my last class of the week…..Things seemed to be running smoothly…..Assignments I could quickly see would be piling up but no sweat, isn’t that what this should be all about I thought. ‘ Then cam Thursday…..my last class of the week “EDTS 523″. Well how bad could this be I thought to myself…..I have made it through gruelling math courses, two technical script JAVA courses, and even a course dealing with mathematical proofs that made no sense to me at all…..”piece of cake” right…..WRONG! After the first 15 minutes I felt that my head was going to spin off of my shoulders, words such as Podcast, Wiki, and Blog popped out at me from the syllabus in front of me. Students raising their hands when asked if they were familiar with these terms and me, well, all I could think was to grab onto the arm of the person next to me and softly say the word HELP! When I got home that evening I rehashed in my mind what was discussed during the period…..One soothing lecture came to mind and put me at ease the topic “Digital Immigrants.” What an apropos way of expressing new age technology and combining the term digital with the average lay person born years too early to fully appreciate the impact of today and tomorrows new world. Long story short, I am now breathing normally and looking forward to the excitement of catching up in short with today’s “Digital Natives.”