DIGITAL

Charlene DinhPatricia AngWayne Wong

Nation

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

DIGITAL NATIVES

An individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

An Individual who is born

during or after the introduction

of digital technologies and

through interacting with technology from

an early age.

DIGITAL

NATIVES

Increasing use of technology

Key DifferencesAttitudes towards

technology

How do we feel about it?

Louis CK said that the wonder of technology is “wasted on the crappiest

generation of spoiled idiots”.

KEY DIFFERENCESCommunications

Texting is more common than calling

Natives often talk to more than one person

KEY DIFFERENCESFace to Face/Social Bonding

The way we reach out and connect with others

Digital natives have too many

options

Are you a digital native?

Question 1You downloadA. MusicB. updatesC. illegal softwareD. ring tones

Are you a digital native?

Question 2You plan tasksA. I only plan partiesB. Who plans?C. Stey by StepD. Only at Work

Are you a digital native?

Question 3You learn a new softwareA. Playing with itB. Someone showing youC. By reading the instructionsD. they don't seem to work on

Windows 2000

Are you a digital native?

Question 4You use technology for..A. everything in lifeB. internet datingC. mainly email and shoppingD. a status symbol

Are you a digital native?

Question 5Your phone.....A. has a flashing envelope icon

that won't go awayB. is connected to the wallC. has just about everything on itD. is with not you right now

DIGITAL NATIVE

MOSTLY A’S AND

B’S

Digital Immigrants

Mostly C’s and D’s

DIGITAL NATIVES

ADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL NATIVE

LEARNING

MORE

EFFECTIVELY

ADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL NATIVE

DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL NATIVE

DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL NATIVE

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

ADVANTAGES

-Less dependent on digital technologies, better understanding on how to achieve things without technologies.

-Can be better at applying non-digital models to digital systems because of the digital immigrants’ richer and more varied experience.

ADVANTAGES

- Better relate to processes that contain a mix of manual and automated tasks, and have a better feel for the advantages and disadvantages of automating a process.

- Are more detail focused, and are more likely to take a craftsman approach to systems design and building, associate with intensive capital or tangled complexity.

ADVANTAGES

- Have longer attention spans. They look for long-term solutions to their problems.

- Are better with non-interactive systems like large-scale data manipulation or transaction, processing, or systems which require great reliability or scalability.

ADVANTAGES

-Consistently traditional values which can be called as subjective merit.

-Goal oriented which means better focus during achieving something though there are many challenges, not easily giving up.

ADVANTAGES

-Lower possibility for mistakes, out of the single task process.

-Better thinking and understanding, especially for theory.

DISADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

-Less understanding about new technology. They have difficulty to understand how to use digital devices and systems in their everyday lives.

-Difficulty to understand modality in user interfaces. It’s unnatural for them to see the same control used for different things in different contexts.

DISADVANTAGES

-Low adaption of parallel processing.

-Relatively low efficiency.

-Difficulty to associate with interactive process or cooperation.

-Institutional structure and social hierarchies.

References• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/april-rudin/life-on-a-social-media-

is_b_4600429.html• http://www.mocon.com/distributor/salespdf/The-Rise-of-the-Digital-Native.

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