"I want to make fire with technology"!!!

"But am I content with my digital literacy? In some ways I’d say yes—but in many other ways I’d say no. Being digitally literate means that I can do things a bit differently with technology than I could previously do without it. However, at this stage in my professional growth, that’s not good enough for me. I want to be digitally fluent... THINK in the new language... I want to make fire with technology." Those words from Karen Lirenman truly express what's going on in my own thought process. I want transformation, I want to be fluent in technology to the point I can think in that language. Being bilingual myself, I understand what it took to be able to think in English. (I still count and dream in French!)

And yet, it seems at times, specially after watching the InfoWhelm and Information Fluency YouTube video and realizing that I am dealing with 7 piles of books from Earth to Pluto, that English was easier to learn! Even after learning English as a new language and now learning the language of technology, I ask myself this: How on Earth do I get to teach my students French without teaching my subject? Got lots of learning to do myself! And that's why I basically skipped the daily routine from Bryan Alexander and his amazing info organization. The guy simply overwhelmed me (as if I was not already from going to Pluto and back 7 times!) and I gave up before my brain juice totally evaporated from the boiling inside my head! You have to understand that 3 days ago, I did not know what PLN or RSS were. What's up with all these crazy letters thrown at us anyway? Can't people speak words anymore? Or maybe, just maybe, that's part of the new technology language I am learning? I'm okay with that, being trilingual is cool!

Technology in my brain right now!

Work cited:

Lirenman, K. (April 2012). The journey from digital literacy to digital fluency. Literacy Daily. Retrieved from https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2012/04/23/the-journey-from-digital-literacy-to-digital-fluency