Week 9: The Youngest Digital Immigrant (part 2)

I do however feel that her parents influence over what she is accustomed to has affected her wider learning skills. She chose more written based academic A-Levels and the thought of wanting to pursue a degree at University was always an issue as she was unfamiliar with the technology which would be used whilst being there. She did however decide to try out university and managed with help to fill out an online UCAS application form. From what I know she has grasped the basics of writing essays on Word and Powerpoint layouts and knows how to access her E-mails. She doesn’t have facebook or IM, nor does she have a television in her room at University or a mobile phone. But she does however seem happy with what she does know and the fact that she doesn’t have these other technologies doesn’t seem to bother her. She concentrates on improving the basics of this technology and has never worried about not having the most popular electrical products. She never had them in the first place and therefore feels like she isn’t missing out on anything.

I would class this as an example of a digital immigrant as she is not entirely comfortable with the new technologies. Even though she finds the basics difficult, she tries her best to adapt some of these skills to enable her to do well in her education and further her career. It does make me wonder how she is going to behave and act when she has children, whether she will continue knowing the basics of this new technology and if she will allow her children to access the facilities which will be available to them.