Week Eight - Task One
What is digital immigration?
Find out about 'Digital Immigration'. What Is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?
Digital immigration is a term introduced by Marc Prensky that describes the state in which our society find themselves in in this digital age. With technology evolving rapidly and becoming more and more integrated within our daily lives it is up to us to find where we fit with the change. This is where digital immigration comes in. Digital immigration has been described as a language which we must learn - and like any language, there will be those who have grown up understanding it and therefore will be far more fluent and at home with it. These are the digital natives - the new generation of the population who have known no different to having computers, phones and digital TV as part of their everyday lives. Digital immigrants on the other hand are those of us 25 and above who have to try and grasp this rapidly advancing technology.
This term is especially important to academics, researchers and those interested in education and media. From the URLs I have mentioned below I have shown journalists, media and education researchers and even neuro-scientists are interested in this phrase.
Although many are shown to agree or merely muse the possibilities of digital immigration there are others who claim the idea as impossible (as shown in the earlier URLs). I personally believe the scientific approach can prove or disprove the theory. If indeed, digital comfort is linked with language learning then it is definitely a possibility. However, if we are all wired to react with technology differently, it doesn't matter how many generations pass - there will always be those who struggle to grasp the media.
Find out about 'Digital Immigration'. What Is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?
Digital immigration is a term introduced by Marc Prensky that describes the state in which our society find themselves in in this digital age. With technology evolving rapidly and becoming more and more integrated within our daily lives it is up to us to find where we fit with the change. This is where digital immigration comes in. Digital immigration has been described as a language which we must learn - and like any language, there will be those who have grown up understanding it and therefore will be far more fluent and at home with it. These are the digital natives - the new generation of the population who have known no different to having computers, phones and digital TV as part of their everyday lives. Digital immigrants on the other hand are those of us 25 and above who have to try and grasp this rapidly advancing technology.
This term is especially important to academics, researchers and those interested in education and media. From the URLs I have mentioned below I have shown journalists, media and education researchers and even neuro-scientists are interested in this phrase.
Although many are shown to agree or merely muse the possibilities of digital immigration there are others who claim the idea as impossible (as shown in the earlier URLs). I personally believe the scientific approach can prove or disprove the theory. If indeed, digital comfort is linked with language learning then it is definitely a possibility. However, if we are all wired to react with technology differently, it doesn't matter how many generations pass - there will always be those who struggle to grasp the media.
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