Monday, 14 April 2008

Week 9 Blog c)

c) A person that i know who most threatens the digital Native/ Immigrant Approach, is still probably my dad, but the thing is that because of his age he should really be an immigrant, but because of his job he is really native, he has pretty much grown up around the developing technology. Unlike my mum who is a real digital immigrant, they are exactly the same age, and yet my mum has trouble navigating a mouse around the computer screen. Other people in my dads social circle are actually immigrant, but still become involved in things that you would expect a digital immigrant to understand, for instance my uncles partner, is fully functional on a computer and like my dad has facebook, as well as a few or my dads friends havign facebook as well and playing virtual scarbble against each other over the internet, which many digital immigrants would not know exists.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

RINCY

Alyson said...

I agree, it's also my dad.
But amybe just because he's been surrounded by technology for so long as is doing it everyday

Emma Kilkelly said...

Kayleigh,

This perhaps shows that Prensky's concepts are a little too rigid?

All the best

Emma