Blog b) The youngest digital imigrant you know

I think the youngest digital imigrant i know is probably my mum. She doesn't have the first idea about technology at all. She has the oldest mobile phone, and has only just learned how to send a text message and even when she does send a text message to somebody it takes her for ever to type it out. When i try and persuade her to get a new mobile her reaction is 'Whats wrong with this one, it does the job it lets me send and recieve messages and phonecalls like i need it for.'
She never ever uses the internet and the only time she comes into contact with a computer is at work when she is typing prescriptions or looking up peoples medical information as she works in a pharmacy. She doesn't really have time to watch much tele and on average probably sits down a few hours a night to watch the odd program. She doesn't have an mp3 player /ipod or anything like that if she wants to listen to music she will put on the radio. Overall i think she can most definetly be classed a s a digital imigrant.

I don't think there is a problem with my mum not having very much knowlege or interaction with modern technology as she gets by fine and doesn't really know what she is missing as she has never relied on it before so it doesn't really bother her and make her want to learn how to use it. However if she did start to learn to use it i think she would find she would benefit from it a lot. Like instead of ordering things over the phone order them on line, and instead of going out to the shops to do her shopping she should perhaps learn to do it on the internet as it may benefit her is she can't get out the house at any point in her life.

I think my mum goes with Prensky's ideas that digital imigrants are often over the age of 25. They are people like my mum who havn't grown up into the developing world of technology there for arn't bothered about learning how to use it as they know they can survive without it. Even if they do start to use it then they still like Prenky says mite have a 'digital imigrant accent' like my mum typing slow.