- Article 1 was .... http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Emerging_Online_Life_of_the_Digital_Native-03.pdf
- Article 2 was ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/nov/12/pressandpublishing.business1
- Article 3 was .... http://technologysource.org/article/digital_natives_digital_immigrants/
- Article 4 was .... http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jan98/feat_6/digital.html
- Article 5 was .... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2008/03/08/civic-life-online-learning-how-digital-media-can-engage-youth/
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Week 8 Websites Revealed.....
- Website 1 was ..... http://www.wisc.edu/depd/html/TSarticles/Digital%20Natives.htm
- Website 2 was ..... http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece?token=null&offset=12
- Website 3 was ..... http://articles.in/?caid=Parenting.2157
- Website 4 was ..... http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/003055.html
- Website 5 was ..... http://www.assortedstuff.com/?p=1541
- Website 2 was ..... http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece?token=null&offset=12
- Website 3 was ..... http://articles.in/?caid=Parenting.2157
- Website 4 was ..... http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/003055.html
- Website 5 was ..... http://www.assortedstuff.com/?p=1541
Monday, 14 April 2008
Week 9 - experience of a fictional technophile student in 2020
Lisa wakes up at exactly 9.30am to the sound of her 'Morning' playlist on her ipod which comes on automatically as her alarm clock.
She goes in to the kitchen just to hear her toast pop out of the toaster...she'd set it on the timer. Unfortunately she is pretty hungover from student night the ight before. Incidentally, she really doesn't feel like making her way into Uni for that group meeting.
After breakfast, she goes in and turns her laptop on to watch a bit of whoever 2020's Jeremy Kyle is! While doing this she checks her emails and social networking site updates and decides for definite she isn't feeling up to going to uni. She finds her mobile and instant messages her group members saying she isn't well and can't come to the group meeting. Funniy enough, the rest of Lisa's group who were also out the previous night don't feel like meeting up either. Over texts and IM's they decide to conduct their meeting over webcam. They all sign in, speak in to their microphones, send files, etc via a file sharer. An hour later, satisfied with the presentation they put together over the internet, the girls sign off.
Lisa sets her ipod to wake her up again at 2pm and heads back to bed.
She goes in to the kitchen just to hear her toast pop out of the toaster...she'd set it on the timer. Unfortunately she is pretty hungover from student night the ight before. Incidentally, she really doesn't feel like making her way into Uni for that group meeting.
After breakfast, she goes in and turns her laptop on to watch a bit of whoever 2020's Jeremy Kyle is! While doing this she checks her emails and social networking site updates and decides for definite she isn't feeling up to going to uni. She finds her mobile and instant messages her group members saying she isn't well and can't come to the group meeting. Funniy enough, the rest of Lisa's group who were also out the previous night don't feel like meeting up either. Over texts and IM's they decide to conduct their meeting over webcam. They all sign in, speak in to their microphones, send files, etc via a file sharer. An hour later, satisfied with the presentation they put together over the internet, the girls sign off.
Lisa sets her ipod to wake her up again at 2pm and heads back to bed.
Week 9 - daily frustrations of a fictional neo-luddite at uni
Clare awakens to the light bursting through the window and the soft vibrations through the walls and floor of her fellow flatmates bursting the latest Justin Timberlake tunes through ther i-pods. She picks up her watch from her bedside table and is suddenly thankful for her flatmates loud music as she has to be in the library in 20 minutes for a group meeting. As she gets dressed she scribbles 'batteries' on a fresh page of a notebook to replace the obviously dead ones in her old alarm clock.
As she walks through the student village she is surrounded by students, nearly all with white headphones coming out of their ears, a mobile phone pressed against their ears, or the odd few typing furiously on their mobiles.
As she enters the library she is held up by a girl in front who is passing through the turnstyle very slowly as she is so busy concentrating on typing her text message. When Clare finally joins her group they all agree to show eachother the work they have completed individually so far. The other 3 girls all pull USB sticks out of their bag and connect to the computers, Clare produces a notebook. The girls ask where she has saved her work. Clare nervously opens up her notebook and displays the neat notes and diagrams she had spent hours the previous night working on. The girls snigger and all gather round one computer to start compiling the information.
Clare cannot concentrate and is put off by everyone around her speaking on the phone, texting, listening to their ipods loudly, watching funny Youtube clips or laughing about pictures/comments on Facebook.
As the girls quickly complete a diagram on the computer, exactly the same as the one in Clare's notebook but much more professional looking, Clare wonders how she will ever fit in with all these technology obsessed students.
As she walks through the student village she is surrounded by students, nearly all with white headphones coming out of their ears, a mobile phone pressed against their ears, or the odd few typing furiously on their mobiles.
As she enters the library she is held up by a girl in front who is passing through the turnstyle very slowly as she is so busy concentrating on typing her text message. When Clare finally joins her group they all agree to show eachother the work they have completed individually so far. The other 3 girls all pull USB sticks out of their bag and connect to the computers, Clare produces a notebook. The girls ask where she has saved her work. Clare nervously opens up her notebook and displays the neat notes and diagrams she had spent hours the previous night working on. The girls snigger and all gather round one computer to start compiling the information.
Clare cannot concentrate and is put off by everyone around her speaking on the phone, texting, listening to their ipods loudly, watching funny Youtube clips or laughing about pictures/comments on Facebook.
As the girls quickly complete a diagram on the computer, exactly the same as the one in Clare's notebook but much more professional looking, Clare wonders how she will ever fit in with all these technology obsessed students.
Week 9 - Blog - Digital Immigrant/Native Threat
I think my dad would be the biggest threat to Prensky's idea of digital immigrants and natives.
Because although there are things I find easier to do than him interactively, he will always go for digital formats if he can. Even when we travel, we've been checking in online and printing our own boarding passes for, well, probably as soon as it became an available option!
He even prefers internet banking. I have never known him to write a hand written letter in my life, always straight for the email.
However, he does still buy a newspaper and watch the news at night, even though he gets news feed subscriptions from online news websites. And recently, he's taken to more interactive news such as Sky News on Sky Plus, where he can check all the updates on the red button.
I think it is probably more these suppposedly digital immigrants who threaten the notion rather than digital natives. It's much easier to think of adults who can work technology really well rather than to think of young people who cant.
Because although there are things I find easier to do than him interactively, he will always go for digital formats if he can. Even when we travel, we've been checking in online and printing our own boarding passes for, well, probably as soon as it became an available option!
He even prefers internet banking. I have never known him to write a hand written letter in my life, always straight for the email.
However, he does still buy a newspaper and watch the news at night, even though he gets news feed subscriptions from online news websites. And recently, he's taken to more interactive news such as Sky News on Sky Plus, where he can check all the updates on the red button.
I think it is probably more these suppposedly digital immigrants who threaten the notion rather than digital natives. It's much easier to think of adults who can work technology really well rather than to think of young people who cant.
Week 9 - Blog - Youngest Digital Immigrant
My mum is probably the youngest digital immigrant I know. In my house my dad, my brother and myself have always been very interested in technology and all the latest gadgets and updates. My sister and my mum aren't as interested as us, but because my sister has grown up pretty much with technological advances she finds it easy to do the basic things, she is slightly challenged by more complicated things, but it doesn't matter because she has no desire/need to do anything more than text, upload photos, check email, participate in social networking.
My mum has had a phone for as long as I can remember because my dad did so he got her one too. But until it started becoming normal for younger people to have mobiles, the older generation never texted. My mum took ages to understand how to type on a mobile and the small screen, but now she embarks on text language and has got much quicker.
Recently, she has even signed up for an email account.
Generally Prensky's idea of digital immigrants includes those who have not grown up surrounded by all the different digital forms of technology, generally those over 27/28 are considered to be digital immigrants...technology won't come naturally to them and they'll have to learn it (maybe with an accent for a while), just as they would a foreign language.
My mum has had a phone for as long as I can remember because my dad did so he got her one too. But until it started becoming normal for younger people to have mobiles, the older generation never texted. My mum took ages to understand how to type on a mobile and the small screen, but now she embarks on text language and has got much quicker.
Recently, she has even signed up for an email account.
Generally Prensky's idea of digital immigrants includes those who have not grown up surrounded by all the different digital forms of technology, generally those over 27/28 are considered to be digital immigrants...technology won't come naturally to them and they'll have to learn it (maybe with an accent for a while), just as they would a foreign language.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Week 9 - Blog - Oldest Digital Native
The oldest digital immigrant I know is my dad.
He was the first person a lot of our friends remember as having he internet. This would have been in the 1990's when it basically was just words on a screen, no pictures, hyperlinks as we now know the internet.
As a child I always remember having a computer in the house and playing really old computer games with pretty rubbish graphics compared to what we have now. My favourite was Donald Ducks Alphabet Chase - http://www.mobygames.com/game/donalds-alphabet-chase
My dad works with machines and computers quite a bit as his work involved a lot of printing and graphics and editting.
He has also had a mobile phone when I was very small, I remember because it was practically the size of me!! But even now, he's always getting the latest phones. He's had about 4 ipods - 2 classics, 1 nano and itouch.
He is constantly connected to his mobile and his emails. Even though he is so into all this and can work it he doesn't understand how to work it to it's full potential.
For example, all the different settings on phones - I have to help him with.
Or knowing that he could get email updates on his phone - my brother informed him of this.
I had to tell him he could make playlists on his ipods. Things like this show that although different generations use digital media in different ways and for different things, age does not generally define Prensky's notion of digital immigrants or digital natives.
It is also true that we can learn from eachother as different generations will look at things in different ways. For example, my dad can do all the simple things and sometimes has to help me, but I go straight for the complicaed things just because I know they exist and there is a way of doing them and I can challenge myself to figure out. But when my dad tries to do these he gets completely baffled, even after I've explained, it takes him a while to understand it.
He was the first person a lot of our friends remember as having he internet. This would have been in the 1990's when it basically was just words on a screen, no pictures, hyperlinks as we now know the internet.
As a child I always remember having a computer in the house and playing really old computer games with pretty rubbish graphics compared to what we have now. My favourite was Donald Ducks Alphabet Chase - http://www.mobygames.com/game/donalds-alphabet-chase
My dad works with machines and computers quite a bit as his work involved a lot of printing and graphics and editting.
He has also had a mobile phone when I was very small, I remember because it was practically the size of me!! But even now, he's always getting the latest phones. He's had about 4 ipods - 2 classics, 1 nano and itouch.
He is constantly connected to his mobile and his emails. Even though he is so into all this and can work it he doesn't understand how to work it to it's full potential.
For example, all the different settings on phones - I have to help him with.
Or knowing that he could get email updates on his phone - my brother informed him of this.
I had to tell him he could make playlists on his ipods. Things like this show that although different generations use digital media in different ways and for different things, age does not generally define Prensky's notion of digital immigrants or digital natives.
It is also true that we can learn from eachother as different generations will look at things in different ways. For example, my dad can do all the simple things and sometimes has to help me, but I go straight for the complicaed things just because I know they exist and there is a way of doing them and I can challenge myself to figure out. But when my dad tries to do these he gets completely baffled, even after I've explained, it takes him a while to understand it.
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