Week 8 and 9 Question 3-Website 1

3) In your blog criticise each website (without giving details that would send a reader directly there) in terms of up-to-dateness, usability and practicing what it preaches.

Website 1:

This website looks at teaching and learning together and incorporates elearning which we've previously looked at as well as various case studies. The specific page I'm looking at for this question is the article by Marc perksy, who is an author of Digital Game-Based Learning. The article was published in March 2002.
The article looks into what he calls the 'least understood and least appreciated notion among those who design and deliver education today' that students having changed, that they think about things in a different way to those who are teaching them. Due to the difference in society that they have grown up in. Technology is everywhere in students lives, whereas there teachers are having to learn to keep up!
The article is fairly update seen as it was only written in 2002, even though technology has changed since then, life for this generation is still pretty much the same, meaning readers are less likely to question the up-to-dateness and therefore the reliability.
The website its self is laid out in a very simple fashion and it seems to be that anyone could navigate round it, this has a lot to do with the search engine making it easier to find exactly what you want as a user.
However the article goes on to say that all 'digital immigrants' have the same sort of knowledge when it comes to technology and they think the same way 'The “Digital Immigrant accent” can be seen in such things such as turning to the Internet for information second rather than first; in reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it; in printing out our emails' But I don't think this is true, Of course if you've grown up with something your more likely to use it or pick it up quicker, but some digital immigrants have more knowledge on certain aspects of technology than many natives. For example, my granddad does graphic design work and has done for many years and he knows far more about 'photoshop' and computer software than I do and than many natives I know. I think it depends on the technology you look at and if its someones career they don't always know less than a digital native. Is this theory prejudging everyone?