Oh, what a lovely day it is.

 In scurrying through the readings this beautiful weekend, warming beneath the sun, and basking in the cool breeze that treated us to some unseasonably cool weather. The squirrels scurried along the dog-eared privacy fence that lines the backyard like jagged wood teeth erected from god's green earth. Birds chirp, and dance through the sky. The males flaunting their most brazen moves in order the capture the lady's attention. A green anole sits motionless at the mouth of a hive, awaiting a slow languid bee, arriving tired burdened by her heavy pollened legs.

Oh, yes, I was reading, I'm sorry I got distracted. You see it's such a beautiful day. But back to this black and white printed document before me. I don't know if it was back in Cognitive Psych as an undergrad, but I read an article that stressed something similar to the Kirschner article about digital natives and multitasking. It's just seems to be in our nature to assume we gather more information than we do at any given time, but in truth our minds are just really good a filling in the gaps. Take your focus at this given moment you are hardly trying to read enough of this so you might be able to leave some sweet nothing comment and boast so elegantly about your participation tokens you might not have realized and the Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile"* just rolled by your current place of being. It's really a shame you missed it's it was quite the spectacle.

The thing is our minds focus, and our eyes are constantly darting too and fro, filling in the gaps of a picture we've got in our head of what is going on around us at any given time. In a digital world this is just the same, but worse, because we have multiple tabs open, and dual monitors, and I'm trying to pay my bills, but my boss just sent me a email because he doesn't remember the password to the audio laptop. Oh look! Tomorrow is a holiday.

I do not disagree with the Kirschner article, but I do feel that some are better about handling the myriad of focus navigating than others. It's like most people can safely drive a car, but we are all not Mario Andretti. Just so, you have those more attuned to the digital environment, maybe it's based on age, maybe it's based on their upbringing, socio-economic status, culture, or whatever, and for whatever reason they become more practiced in the art of digital perusing. This kinda highlight the Prenksy article on Digital natives vs Immigrants, but I could argue that this is and will forever be a changing goal line. Someone who is considered a digital native by today's standards will be antiquated in 50 years.