Prensky, M. (2004) "The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native: What they do differently because of technology, and how they do it", Marc Prensky, http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Emerging_Online_Life_of_the_Digital_Native-03.pdf [Accessed 18/03/2009].
There are many changes going on today which signify that the Digital natives generation is moving ahead in its own direction. It's headed into incorporating digital technology into life in new, unexpected ways. Some digital immigrants are afraid of new technologies and question their value, but natives will never go back to their old ways. The article discusses how digital natives exchange, create, learn, search, meet, co-ordinate and evaluate differently to digital immigrants. Prensky considers letter-writing to be an out-moded form of communication and adds that technology has changed an entire generation's behaviour. Behaviours change rapidly today because technology changes and digital natives want to keep up with it. For adults, they may see some digital native behaviours as worth adopting, some strange, and some forever out of reach given their pre-digital "accents".
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You certainly have a facility to precis sources, well done. This should lead to you to be good at academic notes from which to build good essays. (Fingers crossed!)
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