Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants



Digital Native, brief definition

"A person who grew up with information, communication technologies."

-from www.urbandictionary.com



Digital Immigrant, brief definition

"Someone who grew up before the Digital age and is fairly new to ICTs (specifically the internet) and communicating with digital media. Basically anyone over the age of 28."

-from www.urbandictionary.com

 

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Marc Prensky

"Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder and CEO of Games2train (whose clients include IBM, Nokia, Pfizer, the US Department of Defense and the LA and Florida Virtual Schools) and creator of the sites www.dodgamecommunity.com and www.socialimpactgames.com"

-from www.marcprensky.com

 

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