I disagree with the fact that this website talks about how students are more well equiped for the advances in technology than adults as they have been brought up around this new technology so have hadn't to change from doing things any other way. The reason i disagree with this is because of my own experiences as i know that i am not very good with technology even though i grew up with it and i use it everyday. People like my dad for example or my uncle are just as capable and clued up if not more so than me and they didn't grow up around this new technology. My uncle has more knowledge about computers and the internet etc than me even though i maybe use it more but this is just because i am in eductaion so have to use it more for my work. I think this website is wrong in assuming that there is a digiatl divide as age is a major factor of whether or not you are able to accept that technology is changing. So students are there for classed as digiatl natives and teachers as digital imigrants causing a digital divide in schools and universities. I think that although many teachers may prefer teaching the traditional way like maybe how they learnt at school doesn't mean they are uncapable of teaching with new methods.
I don't believe that it is completely down to how old you are and what generation you grew up in as too wether you are classed as a digital imigrant or native. The website has a table of what kind of things make you a digital immigrant and a native. I don't really agree that just because you are classed as a digital immigrant that you necessarily do all those things. For example i class my self as a digital native but i dont like recieveing information quickly like the table says i prefer it in slow and controlled releases which is what is described as a digital imigrant. So i think sometimes its hard to classify yourself under either one.
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I would also classify myself as a digital native, but I would disagree with your comment about receiving information quickly. I, personally, do like receiving lots of information at once and instantly as it keeps me alert and each time something different happens it restarts my interest in some of the other information. I think this is pretty standard for a lot of digital natives and backs up the argument by some that the concentration span of digital natives is much less than older generations.
Helen,
I think the points you make here are valid...the ability to use technology isn't something we're born with, we all have to learn it...sometimes it's interest that plays a part, other times necessity for work or Uni. I think the comment you make at the end of this post sums up the notion that it isn't easy to put people into such rigid categories...there will always be difference.
All the best
Emma
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