What are digital natives and immigrants? Should we continue talking about the natives of this separation of Internet users? is obvious that new technologies and their introduction into our classrooms, our homes, our libraries, in short, everywhere has been very positive for what we call modern education. It is true that in the network, that great and incomprehensible being, there are a large number, variety and quality of materials and resources. But we must differentiate between network users, as Prensky notes or as we read in the blog of Jorge del Rio .
A clear way to visualize when talking about the digital divide to see the difference and understand when we talk about digital natives and digital immigrants: the former are those that connect every day, live online and produce content and are under 44 years. It is true that there are a number of generations at birth had no internet access at home, which had not mobile and have lived around appointments and VHS cassettes, to cite some examples from the analog world. While recent generations have been born into homes with Internet, mobile, MP3, iphones ... These principles would lie the difference between digital natives and digital immigrants. But you can find members of both groups who are not able to make use of Googlemaps, simple to insert a picture on your blog, using GoogleDocs, to edit a Wiki or upload photos to Flickr and tinkering. Is it useful to continue talking about digital natives? Maybe, but with nuances. This is where you insert the work on those network users that are not digitally-trained to use the network's richest.
Regarding terminology digital native and digital immigrant not seem to fit very well the second term describe the content you want, it would be wrong to suggest other terms to try to speak more clearly. It may propose another as Digital foreign , digital foreign , pre-digital , perhaps the latter is the most suited and more meaningful it seems that much more clear to the content which it refers. But if you accept and take this change in terminology, the logical thing would be to change the term then the opposite and make use of post-digital native rather than digital. So the use of one or the other will agree terms to one or the other, but hopefully that will be producing the shift to this new terminology.
Speaking of learners pre-digital and digital post-we noted that it is necessary for some and as many others who help to immersion in the use of 2.0 tools, such as the blog. Outreach through workshops, with specific work in the creation and use of blogs or other tools But one question that arises and not able to respond in practice (yet) is how long it takes for this process of habituation and insertion in the digital environment.
Blog In Genis Roca discussed in a post for Victoriano Izquierdo, and through this Andalusian young artist presents the characteristics of digital natives:
- The domain of digital media production.
- The world's playground.
- as a socializing network.
- network learn and network.
- Dan importance to digital identity.
- Join the conversation.
- grow differently. Since they do exploring and transgressing.
But the case of this young and multidisciplinary hyperchromatic not think you can take as an example or trend of the digital natives. My experience in using the blog in class is that students (both pre-to post-digital and digital), a majority is required prior work and immersion approach on the network and tools.
Bibliography
Prensky, M. (2001): "Digital Natives, DigitInmigrants." On the Horizon. Vol. 9, No. 5. NCB University Pres
Blog Lola Torres
http://ptqkblogzine.blogia.com/ , which has made the leap to Blogger ( http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot . com )
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