The oldest Digital Native that I know Properly is my roommate, the reason being that most of the people I know have general knowledge of the internet she has more experience. My roommate sends emails via her phone, she also checks My Space using the Internet via her phone, downloads music from itunes, knows most things about the technology inside of a computer. She has her own bloggin forum that she produced simply for fun. She also uses social networking sites online in particular Facebook in order to interact with her friends and family. I’d say she is very “fluent” (Prensky, 2006) with the language of technology. She is an expert when it comes to the looking out for the latest digital technology. The fact that she used to work for PC World means that she must have a fairly good knowledge about technology in particular the digital.
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But don't you know others equally adept and 'quick to pick things up' who are much older? (Didn't you say your dad was a programmer? Isn't he 'speaking like a native'? Or does he understand in a less intuitive way -with more of a hybrid set of technologies and skills?)
ReplyDeleteIsn't digital native about being born into the digital era my dad 55 and he was not born into he's had to learn from scratch unlike a digital native and this is what makes him different
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