Digital Native Digital Immigrant

I'd consider myself a digital native born in an immigrant Chinatown. My age range is right on the cusp of the internet revolution, I did not have a cell phone until I was in high school, my family did not have a computer with internet until I was in Jr. high. I never IM or blog or myspace. However I would consider myself very competent with new technology and the internet, using it for fun and work. In terms of school, even today at NMSU I am shocked when a professor stares at the DVD player and projector with a horrified look of disbelief. If I have to hear, "Why don't I have any sound?" one more time, there's a volume button right in front of you! Seriously, if you are going to be teaching a film class, take two seconds to learn how to use a dvd player and a computer. Any time I have a professor who fumbles around with the equipment, it immediately signals to me that they do not care enough about the class to spend five minutes learning about the room, or they have some archaic pretensious idea that they, "the professor" is above meger tech stuff, that a TA should take care of that for them, as was the case in the past.