Digital Immigrants

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Digital Natives
Digital Immigrants
These terms, and much of the data for this
presentation are from Marc Prensky.

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Communicating 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
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Emerging 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
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Digital Natives
Evaluating Gaming Learning Growing Up
Reputation systems Epinions, Amazon,
Slashdot Groups, MMORPGs Things they want to
learn Exploring, transgressing
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Digital 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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Digital Immigrants
Round World
Flat World
Step-by-Step
Linear Processing
Text First
Work-Oriented
Stand-Alone