Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Week 8 - Website 5
The author acknowledges that there are Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, but furthermore recognises that technologies are aiding both notions, but in different ways in which they can still maintain their status as ‘student’ and ‘teachers.’ This acknowledgment shows how technology advancements affect both in different ways. However, the counterpart still does imply that teachers are at a disadvantage, but is that just because we are more aware of being influenced? Therefore, because people are more aware of being affected, they are less likely to let it happen. Is technology having the same effect on trying to influence and shape us all as a society? Yet students have been surrounded by the advancements running parallel with their own.
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I like the point that immigrants may be actively resisting the changes between themselves and natives. It certaintly gives them more agency then lots of the articles I've been reading which suggest a sense of inevtiability about it all and provides a refreshing anti-technodeterministic view on this.
ReplyDeleteI agree, these notions of 'digital natives' could be society distinguishing themselves away from technology because they want to refrain from being determined by technology.
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