Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Week 8 - Website 1
Within this article the author questions the extent to which Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives can be distinguished, as well as the extent to which a generation actually changes. It has been assumed that generations with as little as 10 years between two people cause them to speak in a different ‘language’ so to speak. As long as students are being educated, doesn’t that allow for the same amount of education in any situation? “Thinking is engaged by activities, which can be fostered by computers or teachers.” As long as students are learning in the end, is their a major problem? One quote, “The technologies used to support such asynchronous communication are not flashy or fast-paced” demonstrates that societies developments aren’t as radical as initially portrayed. However, this article is from 2003, therefore a few years ago. Therefore, could how ‘radical’ the internet is seen have had more of an impact on society 6 years ago, and now we have become more used to the changes, and how technology has become revolutionised.
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I agree that the attitudes towards the internet have changed since 2003, with it becoming much more ingrained and essential to everyday life, not just for the younger generation but also for an older one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe now learning exclusively online would be seen more acceptable than it would have before, with attitudes about the learning environment changing there seems to be more of an acknowledgement that it can actually help in a way which is useful to everybody, rather than the few as it might have been before with cyber-utopian attitudes becoming more popular.
Do you guys feel like a native or an immigrant?
ReplyDeleteI think because of our age we may be classed as a digital native, but I wouldn't say I am as I wouldn't say I'd be able to tick all the boxes of a digital native. Although I have used new media all my life, when we started this unit it took a while for me to get to grips with how it worked, surely a digital native would have taken to it like a duck to water?
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