Week 8 Task 1 Digital Immigration

Find Out about "Digital Immigration". What is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?

To firstly establish what “digital immigration” is it is important to highlight what a digital native is. “Digital native” as Prensky puts it is essentially someone who is born into the technological era. These are individuals who have a good knowledge of Technology and basically speak the language of computers. It appears then that new information on technology comes easy to them.

Now we come to “digital immigration,” the inventor of the term is Marc Prensky, and is a term used for those individuals who were not brought up in the digital world, and because of this find the technological world hard to learn. The computer world is alien to these individuals, and these “Digital immigrants” are said retain their “accent” ( Prensky, 2006) that they had before technological development, and so in this manner they are stuck in the past. It appears this perspective of technology as a foreign world then comes from the concept immigration. Where like individuals that immigrate into a new world, digital immigrants immigrate into the new world of digital technology which like immigrants seems at first a world extremely alien to them