Monday, 23 March 2009

Week 9 - The youngest digital immigrant

There aren’t really a lot around in general. However if I had to think I one, it would be a friend from back home who has little knowledge of using today’s technology for communication. Of which who is a year younger than myself.
Having little access to the internet, contacting him with limited to only the phone. So the whole idea of social networking and instant messaging seemed to be a complete mystery to him.
Having only just finished college, most of his educational life was done the traditional way, e.g. text books and pen and paper. So the who idea of submitting work on the web or completing assessments on the computer didn’t always seem necessary.
I would only class my friend as a digital immigrant as it is very hard to think anyone who isn’t under 30 nowadays. I would have liked to say my mother as she doesn’t know the difference between e-mail and text, but she is middle aged.

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