Week 8 what is Digital Immigration?

Question 1) Find out about 'Digital Immigration'.What Is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?

In terms of what 'digital immigration' is it is a term which was first introduced by educational gaming "entrepreneur Marc Prensky in 2001 in his two-part investigation of how students have "radically changed" as the result of pervasive digital technologies. " They are known as Digital natives, native speakers of the modern world and technologies such as the computer,internet and many more. Digital natives can best be described as students or the children of the millennium.



Prensky states that "as digital immigrants learn — like all immigrants some better than others — to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their 'accent', that is, their foot in the past." (Blogscholar)

The term digital immigrants relates to the generation who are not as upto date with the new world of technology,as well as the fact that these technologies do not come naturally to them unlike the digital natives. For the immigrants it boils down to educating themselves about these technologies and adapting to them rather than them being natural.

Those who care about this theory i believe are the academics who write about it and debate to what extent this theory can be applied and the teachers of which a great deal of theory applies as they are considered to be digital immigrants. However i do feel this is an open subject to nayone who has an opinion on it who can query or agree on what the theory suggests. I also think this topic of discussion is of concern to education boards and schools as the theory relates greatly to the way in which students are taught.