Introductory blog
Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
Prensky’s concept differentiates between those who were born in the digital world and speak the digital language (Natives) and those who have adjusted to the new technology at a later part of their life but will always have an “accent” (Immigrants) (Prensky, 2001). He also implied that ‘Immigrant educators’ would need to reform their methods of teaching to accommodate the Digital Natives (White & Cornu, 2011).
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