Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives

We can see how the students have changed from of the past to present, at this moment

the new generations have many means to study with more technology in the school or

university and they are considerate digital natives, because they were born in the last

years with more possibilities of learning in a correct environment, is easier to learn

any profession, because now we have the best technology in the planet and this

technology with the time can change your acquisition and programming, the first

digital natives were born in 90´s, they spend time playing videogames also they spend

time using the computer, cell phones, digital music player.

The effect of the technology in some students can to be good or bad, because it

depends on the students to make a correct use of the technology, this is important

because somebody can use technology in an incorrect way, they spend time on social

networks, for example: Facebook, Twitter, hotmail. But if the students can to do use

of correct form the social network they have possibilities of learn some ways of

communication.

Digital Immigrants

We know that digital immigrants use book to learn about something specific, look at

information about study determinate about authors of age. Also they can use the

technology to clarify ideas but the digital immigrant cannot to use of correct form the

technology because they thought that the digital native cannot pay attention, they

were comparing a student with knowledge digital native and other with knowledge

digital immigrant to know which student is the best.

Some teachers were clinging books, because they thought to reading a book we can

learn faster and with a correct knowledge. Now some teacher continues with this

process of education and they don’t let digital information in the homework’s

according their process of education.

By: Parada, Jose Luis

(Marc Prensky, October 2001)