Week 4-3/17- Summary of "Digital natives vs digital immigrants"

Digital natives and digital immigrants have great differences in many ways. Not only are their ways of learning, but also their knowledge and attitudes toward technology. To start with, they are essentially different according to their definition, which lies in the time they were born. And, the key year is in 1980 because of the coming of the Usenet and the bulletin board system. Second, they also have different learning styles. For example, digital natives use lots of resources on the internet and most digital immigrants just use paper resources or old strategies. That’s also why digital natives are always faster than digital immigrants when it comes to making use of the information on Net. Though some clips about difference between digital natives or immigrants have been shared during class, and it really seemed that there is a deep generation gap between them; however, they can still teach each other. After all, they are both live in this twenty-first century, the generation of Internet.