Website 3:
The third website its very much up-to-date and therefore more reliable than some that were writing much earlier on. The article is by Derek Law and was written in June 2008. He again like most looking at this topic refers to Marc Prenscy who introduced the terms and follows on from what he discussed. The main focus here is on digital natives and how their behavior is different from his. One thing that neither of the previous websites and articles have looked into is that of digital natives wanting instant gratification, they want results immediately and generally cheaply! And that they don't look for help from librarians, teachers or peers but from the internet, namely Google and that this has changed students behavior towards everything, especially work. He suggests that if we can't find it straight away then we think that its obviously not there! I think that in the case of some students that is how they look at things, if its not found on the first page of Google then it can't be found. However I don't think all natives think like that, I know at University its drilled into students not to rely on google and that you should always check a lot further than the first page of results! I still use books from the library as a source to understand and find out information, so does that mean people who still use books are not natives? or our we somewhere in the middle?
This page discusses the difference between digital natives and Immigrants and gives a clear example to show these differences. The idea that the digital immigrants don't understand the way the natives chose to learn and in this case try to change them, shows the exact difference they have when it comes to learning and education in general.
The article is well written and easy for anyone to understand. Its main focus is looking at the way a digital native studies and how its very different from the traditional way of a digital immigrant who would see studying as only requiring a book on the subject being looked at, where as a native would chose the internet as their first choice and have many other technologies in use will studying. I think this example is classic in showing the divide between parents and their children when it comes to ideas of which is the best way to study.
One thing about the website in general that I found was that its not laid out in the easiest and simplest ways, especially when its trying to appeal to everyone, 'open education, free education for all'. This particular page is trying inform digital immigrants about the way others tend to work, but if the website is difficult to navigate will they find the page? Although the actual lay out of the article resembles the lay out of a newspaper and is very simple.
Website 2:
This page discusses the difference between digital natives and Immigrants and gives a clear example to show these differences. The idea that the digital immigrants don't understand the way the natives chose to learn and in this case try to change them, shows the exact difference they have when it comes to learning and education in general.
The article is well written and easy for anyone to understand. Its main focus is looking at the way a digital native studies and how its very different from the traditional way of a digital immigrant who would see studying as only requiring a book on the subject being looked at, where as a native would chose the internet as their first choice and have many other technologies in use will studying. I think this example is classic in showing the divide between parents and their children when it comes to ideas of which is the best way to study.
One thing about the website in general that I found was that its not laid out in the easiest and simplest ways, especially when its trying to appeal to everyone, 'open education, free education for all'. This particular page is trying inform digital immigrants about the way others tend to work, but if the website is difficult to navigate will they find the page? Although the actual lay out of the article resembles the lay out of a newspaper and is very simple.
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