Wednesday, 25 March 2009

The youngest digital immgirant I know...

The youngest digital immgrant I know of, were some individuals at my school. I went to quite a posh and therefore religious school and there were some children's paretns were extremely well off but very traditionalist in terms of technology, including limited television useage (if any) and no computers, let alone mobile phones. This meant that when it came to interactive learning at school, they had to make the transition from a neo-luddite background to digital immigrant. In this day and age, it is hard to be a digital native as technophobia is frowned upon and almost everything is digitalised and becoming more technological in every aspects of our lives.

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  1. I think this is an excellent example of the way context is far more important than age in the native/not debate (although I'm not a fan of Prensky, I think his assertions are good provocations to better thinking about technology and education.

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