This particular website is completely dedicated to digital immigrants and digital natives. The website is based around a University research programme/project and is run by an academic team. Their aim is to provide support for young people who are growing up with this type of medium. When navigating around the site you can access articles, blogs, forums and social networking domains. This website is the element of a larger project which is being carried out by the University. They intend to research the way in which younger people interact with digital technology as part of their educational and everyday lives. The site also provides you with videos and publications based around digital natives and people who report on this particular field of technology.
This website has a very modern feel about it and is obviously updated regularly. This implies the modernity of the website as it is continuing to develop as digital technology is developing in society. It also suggests the moderinity of the opinions and results which are being suggested.
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So, are you a Native (as Prensky would say you were) or do you feel like an immigrant?
ReplyDeleteWhat does that tell us?
I should be an immigrant -and I certainly don't feel like a Native, but I used to be much more ITC savvy than my students (now it's all SNS, I'm not so sure, that seems to be a native culture as far as I'm concerned -but Sue Grau's well up with all that, so it can't be just about growing up with it can it?). I was more IT savvy than Sue, but now she seems to have leapfrogged me -possibly because she has the Band CofP and a large family and I don't? (Again with the online/offline interaction not separation!)