Week 8 pt.2

In this article I found on The Times website, it looks at the comparison of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’. Using a daughter and a mother who are both living in this digital age, it talks of how the native (the daughter) is coping with all the new technologies we have turned to fine, whilst the mother (or the immigrant), is finding this adaption to the world a lot more difficult.
As one sentence states, ‘The digital native’s brain is physically different as a result of the digital input it has received growing up’.
This article basically looks at the major difference these two generations have against each other, even though there is only a 20 year different between them. Hence, showing the advances we have come through in the past decade or so.
The article tends to focus on the mother as she questions and discusses how today’s children who are growing up with this technology are coping and if it has had an effect on them. An example of this change from analogue to digital would be that kids would write their thoughts into a personal diary, while now this has also has changed to digital in the form of blogging and social network sites where we can talk about ourselves for all to see.
I could personal reason with the mother in this example as there has been a big change in the way people are brought up in the past decade as everything now can be done by the touch of a few keys, however these digital immigrants need to understand that the world is changing and should start to involve themselves with it, as eventually it will start to affect their lives too soon.

Woods. R (2006) The next step in brain evolution: Technology is dividing us into digital natives and digital immigrants - and changing the way we think

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683193.ece