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.