Title: Digital Immigrants
1Digital Natives
Digital Immigrants
These terms, and much of the data for this
presentation are from Marc Prensky.
2Communicating Sharing Buying/Selling Creating Me
eting
Email, IM, chat, dialect Blogs, webcams, camera
phones, moblogs, moviesmusic, humor eBay,
internet, schoolwork Sites, avatars, mods 3D chat
rooms, dating
3Emerging New Dialect k for OK c for
see u for you ? emoticons H4T5TNT Home for
tea at 5 tonight GTGPOS Got to go, parent over
shoulder
4Digital Natives
Evaluating Gaming Learning Growing Up
Reputation systems Epinions, Amazon,
Slashdot Groups, MMORPGs Things they want to
learn Exploring, transgressing
5Digital Immigrants
We have a Digital Immigrant Accent
- Printing out our e-mails
- Not using the Internet first
- Reading instructions first
- No instant messaging
- Thinking Real Life happens off-line
- Learning as Work
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6Digital Immigrants
Round World
Flat World
Step-by-Step
Linear Processing
Text First
Work-Oriented
Stand-Alone