A Digital Immigrant in a Digital Native's World

What do you make of the (divergent) positions of Boyd and Prensky (per our discussion in class and/or per the article above?)  Where do you stand on the “digital native” terminology? As stated in my previous blog, I am a digital immigrant. Born in 1987, I believe that Prensky is incorrect in his statement that a digital native is born after 1980. Yet, I also do not agree with Boyd’s representation either that it is dangerous to assume that children and youth are automatically informed. The title of a digital native and a digital immigrant is not cut and dry. There are gray lines in these definitions and how the world views both groups. Boyd discusses how everyone has something to offer when it comes to technology. Technology is ever changing and we are all constant learners. I am in agreement with her statement that we are all constant learners, yet children today are born with different brains than those of times before. Research states that children are not the same as...

A digital native  is said to be an individual born after 1980. Someone who is unaware of the world that their parents, grandparents, and elders had grown up in. Marc Prensky  discusses digital natives and their brain structure in his 2001 article, stating how there are currently two cultures of people in the world. Much of these two cultures is developed from attitude and preference in learning. Digital immigrants  grew up in a pre-digital era. They are different learners who had to learn a second language of digital media literacy. In reading  Marc Prensky's article, I believe that a digital native is not a person born after 1980. I was born in 1987 , and at about to be 30 years of age, believe that I am a digital immigrant. I grew up in the age where yes, there was an Apple computer in our classroom, but we were learning to type and look at a keyboard. I remember Type to Learn  in library class where we had to find the letters to type. I remember when the hom...

My name is Allison Campbell. I teach Dual Language Kindergarten at Carl G. Lauro Elementary School in Providence. I have taught there for 5 years and enjoy every minute of the dual language program. I live in West Greenwich on a farm and am spending most of my summer at home. There is always a lot to do on a farm. Trips to the beach will be mixed in with that...hopefully lots of them! Other than that, I enjoy cooking and baking, hiking, and reading. I look very forward to reading a book for pleasure this summer.