Week 9 - Wenger v Prensky

Wenger's theory of Communities of Practice and Prensky's of Digital immigrants and natives could be seen as similar.

Within communities of practice there is the notion that we will learn from eachother, and even though some people may be more skilled/experienced than others it is within everyone's greater interest for everyone to learn and improve.

Within Prensky's idea there is also a separation between those who are more knowledgable and those who are less so.
It would be unfair to say who was better out of digital immigrants and digital natives, so who was more powerful, but we do know digital natives have more knowledge of digital media than digital immigrants.

Communities of Practice are usually brought together from a shared interest. This is not so true with digital immigrants and natives as natives will be interested in digital media whereas immigrants are not so much and that is what divides them. But their lack of interest could be due to them not wanting the effort of having to learn.