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.