First draft "Electronic Literacy"

My evolution in Electronic Literacy (first draft)

This Essay is going to be about the use of electronic literacy in my life. I will tell some things that I have learned through my life, I will also write about the purposes and difficulties of electronics, tools like internet and my strengths and weaknesses in electronic literacy and how it all influenced my learning of languages.

The first time I used an electronic device was when I was 6 years old and my family had an ancient computer that had some odd games within. I loved to play those kinds of games, so that is how I started to get used to use the computer, then the magical invention of Internet came to my life, and it brought some addictive programs along, like Messenger and obviously Internet Explorer, that also brought an endless list of viruses with it, but it brought a lot of new information and a whole world for me to discover.

Nowadays, my electronic literacy is based on Internet; this has been the most useful electronic tool for me, for example: if it was not for the internet, right now I would be learning English in Propedeutico because I learnt almost everything I know of the English language from videos on Internet, in fact I took some English classes in high school but nothing were as meaningful for me as those videos, first I started watching them with English subtitles, it improved my writing and reading, and it also made me think directly in English then I wasn’t able to find them subtitled due my lack of experience with web pages like Youtube and specific research on Google, so I had to watch them spoken in English, it was a bit harder than subtitled, but at the end I improved my listening a lot, so I must say that I owe my current life here in the University to Internet

In the future I think that my electronic literacy will keep improving, not only as a hobby, but as a professional research tool, I’m sure that if I decided to keep studying a Master’s degree, My most powerful electronic tool would be internet, It may be even more important than now in the B.A. On the other hand in a future, I want to learn French exactly as I did with English, so Internet is going to help me again invaluable information about it.

Now that I think about it, that day I started to play with the computer was the beginning of my whole electronic literacy, and then the Google researches changed my academic life, afterwards, my love for those videos started my high education life, and helped me to decide my future, so what’s next? Who really knows? Maybe I will come up with a new teaching method based on Internet that will help a lot of people around the word.